Fulvio Amato
Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC)
Fulvio Amato
Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC)Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC). PhD in Natural Resources and Environment at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). Amato has been research fellow at the Center for Air Resources Engineering and Sciences (NY, US) , at TNO (Utrecht, Netherlands) and more recently scholar-in-residence at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden). His research focuses on the air quality and health impact of traffic non-exhaust emissions. He has been scientific advisor for several national authorities and international organizations (WHO, OECD, US-EPA among others).
Valérie Forest
Professor in the Center for Biomedical and Health Engineering, U1059 Inserm, France
Valérie Forest
Professor in the Center for Biomedical and Health Engineering, U1059 Inserm, FranceValérie Forest received her PhD in Biologic and Medical Engineering in 2005 from the Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, France. After a 4-year post-doctoral position in the Research Centre of the Hospital Centre of the University of Montreal/Montreal Cancer Institute (Canada), she joined Mines Saint Etienne, one of the top 10 French graduate schools of engineering. She is Professor in the Center for Biomedical and Health Engineering, U1059 Inserm. She is Head of the Biological activity of inhaled particles Department and her current main research interest is the cytotoxicity of inhaled nanomaterials.
Ilka Gehrke
Head of Department Environment and Resources, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Germany
Ilka Gehrke
Head of Department Environment and Resources, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, GermanyDr.-Ing. Ilka Gehrke is the Head of the Department Environment and Resources at Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Germany. With a Diploma in Environmental Process Engineering from Clausthal-Zellerfeld University of Technology and a Doctoral thesis on "Microsieves - microtechnical production and membrane characterization" from Ruhr University Bochum, Dr. Gehrke has a strong academic background.Dr. Gehrke began their professional career as a research assistant at Fraunhofer UMSICHT in 2001 and has been leading the Environment and Resources department since 2013. They have also been a guest lecturer at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and the University of Duisburg-Essen.Dr. Gehrke is a member of several professional organizations, including the German Water Partnership (GWP), the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA), the Center for Water and Environment (ZWU), and the MERCUR Science Policy Network. Their research interests focus on water management and technology, as well as the energy transition and its impact on water management.
Marie-Christine Gromaire
Researcher at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France
Marie-Christine Gromaire
Researcher at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, FranceMarie-Christine Gromaire is a top grade researcher at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France), within Leesu laboratory. She develops pluridisciplinary research on the sources, nature and management of urban stormwater contaminants, mainly developed as part of OPUR Observatory of Urban Hydrology in Paris. Over the last years, she focused on hydrological and physico-chemical processes within runoff source control measures, the resilience of such facilities, as well as the modelling of their large-scale deployment. She led the Roulépur project (2015-2020, French national call) and is strongly involved in the LifeAdsorb project (2018 – 2023, LIFE17 ENV/FR/000398), on innovative solutions for at source control of micropollutants loads conveyed in road and carpark runoff.
Mats Gustafsson
Senior Researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Mats Gustafsson
Senior Researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)Dr Gustafsson is a senior researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). He has a doctor’s degree in Physical Geography from Gothenburg University with a thesis on “Marine Aerosols in Southern Sweden”. His research at VTI mainly concerns transport related particulate pollution with an emphasis on non-exhaust particles, road dust and microplastics. Since 2000 he has been the project leader of a large number of research projects dealing with particle emissions, particle properties, health effects and mitigation. Research concerns road as well as railroad pollution. Since 2018, a strong focus has been microplastic pollution from road traffic, mainly tyre abrasion and tyr and road wear particle emissions, e.g. within EU-projects uCARe, LEON-T and currently NEEVE. Dr Gustafsson has also, together with colleagues at VTI, developed the sampler WDS (Wet Dust Sampler) and other innovative equipment to sample and study non-exhaust particles.
Seokhwan Lee
Non-exhaust emissions expert at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM)
Seokhwan Lee
Non-exhaust emissions expert at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM)Dr. Seokhwan Lee obtained his PhD at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2005. Since 2006, he has been employed at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) and investigated the contributions of traffic-related PM to atmospheric environments. He is a non-exhaust emissions expert, including brake wear, tyre wear, and road dust re-suspension, with 15 years of experience characterizing non-exhaust emissions. He specializes in characterizing non-exhaust emissions and has a passion for mitigating them.
Jenifer McIntyre
Associate professor of aquatic toxicology at the Washington State University’s School of the Environment, USA
Jenifer McIntyre
Associate professor of aquatic toxicology at the Washington State University’s School of the Environment, USADr. Jenifer McIntyre is an associate professor of aquatic toxicology at the Washington State University’s School of the Environment. She is passionate about science that effects change. Her B.Sc. (1997) in environmental biology at Queen’s University led to the ban of a pulp mill effluent used as a road dust suppressant. Her M.S. (2004) from the University of Washington on contaminant bioaccumulation led the Washington State Department of Health to issue a fish consumption advisory for Lake Washington. Her Ph.D. (2010) research at UW on olfactory neurotoxicity of copper in coho salmon helped pass legislation in Washington and California that phases out metals in brake pads. In 2020, Dr. McIntyre and colleagues discovered a novel chemical leaching from vehicle tires that is one of the most acute toxicants known to science, explaining acute die-offs of coho salmon in roadway-impacted watersheds. She currently focuses on the ecotoxicology of urban stormwater runoff and the biological effectiveness of green stormwater infrastructure.