Workshop on Micropollutants and Microplastics

The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Iceland invites you to attend a workshop on “Identification and Mitigation of Environmental Micropollutants and Microplastics” given by the experts from Aurora Alliance Universities. The event will be held at VRII-257 on Sepember 1st.

Schedule:

9:00-9:10 Opening address

9:10-10:00 “Tracing toxicants – exposure assessment for environment and health” by Prof. Marja Lamoree (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

10:00-10:20 Coffee break

10:20-11:10 “Suspect and nontarget screening to identify novel pollutants in our living environment” by Prof. Sicco Brandsma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

11:10-12:00 “The potential of combined semi-batch reverse osmosis and adsorption for the removal of PFAS” by Prof. Stefan Panglisch (University of Duisburg-Essen)

12:00-13:00 Lunch and networking

13:00-13:50 “Performance inmitigation of microplastics in urban wastewater treatment plants” by Prof. Sandra Contreras Iglesias (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

13:50-14:30 “Effect of microplastics on membrane-based wastewater treatment” by Prof. Bing Wu (University of Iceland)

14:30-15:00 Discussion and closing remarks

Please contact Bing Wu (wubing@hi.is) for registration.