2021 Recipients
Young Researchers
Eleni Keliri
PhD Student in the Water Treatment Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology
“Automated In-Situ Cyanotoxin Assessment Toolbox for Real Time Surface Water Monitoring (CYANOBOX)”
Inês Bezerra Gomes
Junior Researcher in the Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, in University of Porto, Portugal
“Are emerging contaminants affecting drinking water microbial biofilms?”
Distinguished Researcher
Diana Aga
Research professor in Environmental Analytical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
"Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Revealing New Chemical Forms Through High Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Complementary Techniques"
Young Researchers
Olga Gómez Navarro
Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
“Determination of pharmaceuticals in intermittent rivers in Spain using three data acquisition modes on Q-Exactive Orbitrap-MS”
Lahiruni Halwatura
Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
“Identification of wastewater based unknown contaminants of emerging concern via in silico methods for non-targeted screening approaches”
Xuerong Li
Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Environment, Florida International University, USA
“Comprehensive assessment of PFAS on their occurrence, composition, spatial distribution, and seasonal variation in drinking and surface water in South Florida environments”
Lan Liu
Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
“Simultaneous targeted and suspect screening of contaminants in the spawning grounds of the endangered Copper Redhorse fish”
Diana Manjarrés-López
ENFOCHEM, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
“Presence of pollutants of emerging concern in invasive and autochthonous species from l`Albufera Natural Park (Spain) by LC-HRMS/MS Q-Exactive Orbitrap”
Distinguished Researchers
Anne-Marie Delort
Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Université Cleront Auvergne, Aubierre, France
"The cloud microbiota – Microorganisms-H2O2 interactions"
Walter Gössler
Institut für Chemie, Universität Graz, Austria
"A closer look at the elemental composition of macrofungi, with a focus on arsenic"
Albert Lebedev
Department of Organic Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
"Mechanisms of formation of disinfection by-products in water treatment"
Tatjana Ćirković-Veličković
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Emerging food contaminants"
Young Researchers
Luisa Bellanova
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
“Environmental compartments (atmosphere, soil, marine and surface water) with focus on monitoring and processes”
Elena A. Detenchuk
Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Russia
“Transformation of body care products under the influence of chlorinating agents”
Konstantin B. Ilijević
Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade University, Serbia
“Bioelements and non-essential elements in honeybees and their hemolymph, larvae, pupae, honey, wax, propolis and bee bread”
Tatjana Mijošek
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
“Multibiomarker responses in the liver of the northern pike (E. lucius) from the Mrežnica River as an indication of water contamination”
Urszula Ryszko
Łukasiewicz ResearchNetwork-New Chemical Syntheses Institute, Lublin, Poland
“Speciation analysis of chromium in mineral fertilizers”
Francisco Sánchez Soberón
PhD Researcher in Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University fo Porto, Portugal
“Mass balance of volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs) in different WWTPs methanogenic digesters”
George Taxeidis
School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
“Discovery of novel polyesterases capable of degrading a variety of synthetic polyesters”
Nikola Zdolšek
“Vinča” Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia
“Aqueous multivalent-ions electrolyte for electrochemical supercapacitators: Boosting electrochemical performances”