Program Wed, June 18, 2025

Session 5: Aftertreatment Part 1
Chair: Danilo Engelmann, BFH, Biel

Una Trivanovic, METAS
«Can existing periodic technical inspection instruments measure GDI engine emissions?»

Sven Kureti, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
«Catalytic oxidation of CO, VOC and PM in O2-rich exhaust of small-scale fireplaces»

Mirjam Müller, DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH
«Influence of electrostatic precipitators at small-scale biomass combustion systems on particle number emissions and particle size distributions»

Heinz Burtscher, FHNW
«Reducing fleet emissions by periodical technical inspection»

10.30

Session 6: Aftertreatment Part 2
Chair: Lauretta Rubino, VERT Association

Lauretta Rubino, VERT Associaton
«The VERT GPF-Retrofit Program for Cleaner Urban Mobility: Nanoparticle Emissions Reduction via Filtration within the HORIZON Europe AeroSolfd Project»

Danilo Engelmann, Berner Fachhochschule
«AeroSolfd: Advancing Air Quality through Retrofitted Gasoline Particulate Filters – Insights from Laboratory and Real-World Evaluations»

Andreas Mayer, VERT
«Health Impact of Nanoparticles emitted by in-use Gasoline Engines reduced by GPF Retrofit Life Cycle Analysis and the resulting Benefit/Cost Ratio»

Norbert Heeb, Empa
«Next-generation gasoline particle filters: Impact on genotoxic compounds, assessment of risks for secondary poisoning»

Leonid Tartakovsky, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
«In-use gasoline cars retrofit with a particle filter – Israeli experience»

13.30

Poster Session B

Session 8: Health effects
Chair: Marloes Eftens, Swiss TPH

Doug Brugge
«Efficacy of HEPA air purifiers at reducing blood pressure for near highway residents »

Meike Jakobi, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
«Associations between Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Ultrafine and Fine Particulate Matter and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Coagulation in Seniors in the German CorPuScula Study»

Gowsinth Gunasingam, Adolphe Merkle Institute
«Studying adverse effects of diesel exhaust particles on human intestine tissue in vitro»

tbd.

Eric Lavigne, Health Canada
«Associations between PM2.5 components, brake and tyre wear markers, ultrafine particles, and childhood cancers in Canada»

19.00

Conference Dinner, Polyterasse