Scientific Committee

Institution: Department of Chemistry, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: georgia.labuto@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Water security, prioritization of pharmaceuticals for environmental monitoring, plastics and microplastics as emerging pollutants, development of adsorbent materials for removing emerging pollutants from aqueous environments.

Institution: Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: decio.semensatto@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Pollution by plastics and microplastics in the environment, water quality, use of bioindicators in environmental quality assessment.

Institution: Institute of the Sea, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: camilo.seabra@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Ecotoxicological studies with aquatic organisms to assess the effects and ecological risks of emerging pollutants.

Institution: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: fbarbosa@fcfrp.usp.br

Field of expertise: Metals and emerging contaminants in health and the environment, systems toxicology, and human biomonitoring.

Institution: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas, Brazil

Email: ccmonta@unicamp.br

Field of expertise: Water security, environmental chemistry, occurrence, fate, and impacts of emerging contaminants, microplastics, and pesticides in aquatic and terrestrial systems, development, and validation of analytical methods for determining these contaminants at trace levels.

Institution: Faculty of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Email: jgc@fct.unl.pt

Field of expertise: Membrane processes, development of membranes and membrane processes in separation and (bio)reaction, process monitoring at the molecular scale, process modeling.

Institution: Laboratory of Membrane Processes, iBET – Institute of Experimental and Technological Biology, Portugal

Email: vanessap@ibet.pt

Field of expertise: Analysis of emerging compounds, membrane filtration, direct photolysis, and advanced oxidation processes, combination of membrane processes and photolysis for water treatment.

Institution: Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: nardocci@usp.br

Field of expertise: Quantitative methods for exposure and health risk assessment related to environmental agents, environmental health surveillance, spatial analysis of health and environmental data, health impacts of extreme events, environmental risk governance, resilience, and climate change adaptation.

Institution: Department of Chemistry, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: mllmoraes@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Development of analytical methods for determining emerging pollutants in aqueous environments.

Institution: Institute of the Sea, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: rodrigo.choueri@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Ecology, with an emphasis on ecotoxicology, sediment toxicity and contamination, toxicity tests, ecological risk assessment, integrated environmental quality assessment.

Institution: Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: jgfreitas@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Groundwater, advanced oxidation processes, environmental remediation.

Institution: Department of Pharmacy, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: lcalixto@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Study of degradation products and elemental impurities in pharmaceuticals using new analytical tools, development of miniaturized techniques for sample preparation for pharmaceutical, biological, and environmental applications.

Institution: Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: christiane.arruda@unifesp.br 

Field of expertise: Advanced oxidation processes, removal of pollutants from aqueous environments, development of functionalized electrodes for wastewater treatment.

Institution: Department of Chemistry, Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: eassilva@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Development of extraction devices and data processing applied to complex matrix analyses (biological, food, and environmental), involving the use of separation techniques coupled with mass spectrometry.

Institution: Department of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Education, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil

Email: elma.martins@ufscar.br

Field of expertise: Development of adsorbent materials prepared from biomass residues and magnetic nanoparticles for the decontamination of aqueous environments.

Institution: Universidade Santa Cecília (UNISANTA), Santos, SP, Brazil

Email: palomachoueri@unisanta.br

Field of expertise: Environmental toxicology; microplastic pollution; sediment quality assessment; biomarker analysis in aquatic organisms; ecotoxicological and human health risk assessment; marine and coastal ecosystems

Institution: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) – Campus Baixada Santista – Instituto do Mar – Santos – SP

Email: dressaortega@gmail.com

Field of expertise: Aquatic ecotoxicology; emerging pollutants in coastal environments; effect of illicit drugs in invertebrates; biomarkers analysis in aquatic organisms

Institution: Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: taciana.guarnieri@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Prediction and prioritization of pharmaceuticals for environmental monitoring; sample preparation methodologies, development and application of adsorbent materials based on Circular Economy and Bioeconomy principles; analytical procedures using liquid chromatography and ICP-MS; hyphenated analytical techniques, chemical speciation; green and sustainable chemistry.

Institution: Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Email: c.passos@unifesp.br

Field of expertise: Methodologies for microplastic analysis, foraminera ecology.

Institution: Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil

Email: greicigubert@gmail.com

Field of expertise: Production and structural; morphological; and magnetic characterization of transition metal nitride nanoparticles; nanoplastics; submicrometric polymeric contaminants; ecotoxicity.