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Official event page: EnvChem2026: Chemistry of the Whole Environment

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Welcome

Welcome to #EnvChem2026: Chemistry of the Whole Environment.

This page brings together the key information you will need during the conference, including the programme, announcements, venue information, code of conduct, sponsor information, and attendee resources.

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Draft programme schedule

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Thursday 2 July 2026

Time Session / item Speaker / presenter Title
10:15–11:00 Registration and coffee
11:00–11:10 Welcome Professor Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay
Session 1: Environment and Food Nexus Chair: Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay
11:10–11:30 Talk 1 Luis Lightbourn-Rojas Biotechnological potential of native rhizobacteria for improving tomato growth and disease management.
11:30–11:50 Talk 2 Saad Alrashdi Mitigation of microplastic-induced plant stress using iron-enriched biochar and manure
11:50–12:10 Talk 3 Md Hanif The role of wheat–legume intercropping on soil nitrogen dynamics under different fertiliser regimes.
12:10–12:30 Talk 4 Valérie Cappuyns Bioaccessibility and Leaching Behaviour of Antimony in Mining Waste and Soils: The Role of Mineralogy and Geochemical Properties
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:10 ECS Highlight Dr Nitin Khandelwal ‣
Session 2: Forever Chemicals Chair Helena Rapp-Wright
14:10–14:30 Skill Focus Dr David Megson ‣
14:30–14:50 Talk 5 Madelyn Murphy Per and polyfluoroalkyl substance profiles in Scottish biosolids
14:50–15:10 Talk 6 Nathan McCard Integrating novel hydrological approaches with PFAS detection to support remediation and catchment management
15:10–15:30 Talk 7 Rory Downham The use of boron doped diamond electrochemical destruction technologies for the removal of PFAS from river water
15:30–16:25 Poster session
Session 3: Complex Mixtures Chair: Mark Barrow
16:25–16:45 Talk 8 Gilbert Ampem Metabolomics of toxic lipid peroxidation products: their production in culinary oils and the 'real-life' evidence in everyday foods
16:45–17:05 Talk 9 Shane Fitzgerald A chemical profile to open fire plastic burning in Indonesia
17:05–17:25 Talk 10 Samuel T. Mutto Method optimisation for the fractionation of bitumen using automated Soxhlet extraction
17:25–18:00 Keynote Valerio Ferracci Advances in ambient air monitoring: from low-cost approaches to novel methods for reactive species

Friday 3 July 2026

Time Session / item Speaker / presenter Title / details
08:30–09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00–09:40 Keynote Professor Rachel Gomes Pollution to solution? Practice, policy & public perception for emerging pollutants & water quality
Session 4: Water Treatments Chair: Rowena Fletcher-Wood
09:40–10:00 Talk 11 Zahoor H. Farooqi Smart polymer microgels and their hybrids for removal of toxins from aqueous medium
10:00–10:20 Talk 12 Ahmed Hamad Alanazi Recycling waste tires into an ecofriendly adsorbent for water purification
10:20–10:40 Talk 13 Aliyu Ibrahim High-rate electrocoagulation for treatment of high-strength dairy wastewater: energy consumption and cost analysis
10:40–11:00 Talk 14 Khansaa Al-Essa Sustainable biosorption of Cr(VI) from industrial wastewater using engineered imperata cylindrica: Toward whole-environment remediation
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
Session 5: Environmental Contaminants — Novel Techniques Chair: David Megson
11:30–11:50 Talk 15 Sanugi Dassanayake Effect of atmospheric pressure photoionization parameters on diagnostic information generated from common environmental contaminants
11:50–12:10 Talk 16 Arnau Trinidad Torras Magnetically actuated SERS nanosensors for the rapid detection of contaminants of emerging concern in water
12:10–12:30 Talk 17 David Jones Can thermal desorption gas chromatography mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS) be used to identify sources of plastic pollution?
12:30–13:10 Keynote Dr Peter Baugh A lifetime of chemical science
13:10–13:55 Lunch
Session 6: Towards a Sustainable World Chair: Valerio Ferracci
13:55–14:15 Talk 18 Haokai Wang Bio-oil characterisation to sustainable energy and reduce reliance on fossil fuels
14:15–14:35 Talk 19 Benedict Gannon The effect of zinc-based antioxidants in road bitumen for increased sustainability explored by ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry
14:35–14:55 Talk 20 Kanchan Pawar Z-scheme charge transfer study using BiVO₄/boron-doped g-C₃N₄ for photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen generation
14:55–15:15 Skill Focus Helena Rapp-Wright From Awareness to Action: Implementing Sustainability in Analytical Chemistry
15:15–15:35 Coffee break
15:35–16:15 Keynote Dr Chris Jones PFAS in Semiconductor Manufacturing: Essential Use, By-Product Formation, Abatement Performance, and Lifecycle Controls
16:15–16:30 Prizes and conclusions

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