Name: ASAQ Seminar Series
Start: 2025-12-03T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-04T17:30:00+00:00
Location: Online

ASAQ Seminar Series

from Wednesday, December 3, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, December 4, 2025 (5:30 PM)

Monday, December 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

9:00 AM Opening session

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Trends of Ambient Air Pollution: S1
S1
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Environmental exposure disparities in urban markets: A Comparative air quality assessment in Lusaka, Zambia. - Emmy Nkhama (Levy Mwanawasa Medical University)

9:45 AM Atmospheric Fine Particulate Matter (PM 2.5), Black Carbon, and Organic Carbon Levels in Oshakati, Namibia - Anna Alfeus (University of Namibia)

10:00 AM Mitigating traffic emissions: Strategies using Black Carbon as an indicator - Irena Ježek Brecelj (Aerosol d.o.o.)

10:15 AM Trends of Air Pollution in the Lazio Region of Central Italy: Insights from Satellite and Ground-Based Observations - Cristiana Bassani (Ialian National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA))
10:45 AM BREAK

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Atmospheric Pollution and Health Impacts: S2
S2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM PERFORMANCE OF PRE-CONSUMER WASTE COTTON MEMBRANE FOR FILTERING AEROSOLIZED PATHOGENS - Joshua William (PhD Students)

11:15 AM Source-Specific VOC exposure and health risk assessment in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire): A comparaison of traffic and domestic fires emissions - Julien BAHINO (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny Abidjan-Cocody)

11:30 AM Levels of Air Pollutants in School Environments in Hawassa City, Ethiopia, and Assessment of Potential Human Health Risks - Abebech Nuguse Amare (Hawassa University)

11:55 AM INDOOR AIR POLLUTION RELATED RESPIRATORY SYPTOMS AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN HAWASSA CITY, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA, 2025. - Bethlehem Yemane (Lecturer and Researcher)

12:10 PM Characterization of Air Pollutants and Health Impacts Associated with Charcoal Production in the Awi Zone - Desta Gebeyehu (Injibara University) Muluken Mekuyie (Hawassa University)
1:30 PM Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S3
S3
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Global and custom calibration approaches for Clarity’s Node-S air quality measurements. - Marta O'Brien (Clarity Movement)

1:45 PM An Overview of the Use of Low-Cost Electronic Sensors for Environmental Monitoring in Cameroon - Mbarndouka Taamté Jacob (Research Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology, Institute of Geological and Mining Research)

2:00 PM System Architecture and Deployment Engineering of AI_R for Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality Sensing - Brenton Tapfumanei Munhungewarwa (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Donald Ngobeni (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba Labs)
2:30 PM BREAK

2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S4
S4
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:55 PM Smart Pollution Monitoring for Sustainable Mobility: Low-Cost Environmental Sensing for Air Quality Assessment - Salvatore Dello Iacono (University of Brescia)

3:10 PM Evaluation of Low-Cost passive sampling for urban ammonia (NH₃) measurement: Insights from the Akouédo Landfill, Côte d’Ivoire - Julien BAHINO (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny Abidjan-Cocody)

3:25 PM The Role of X-ray Spectrometry in the Evaluation of Ambient Air Particulates in the Middle East; an Innovative Perspectives to Estimate a Wide Range of Pollutants - Abdallah Shaltout (National Research centre, Egypt)
3:40 PM BREAK

3:40 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM Pollutants and sources: S5
S5
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Pollutant and Sources - Atuyambe Lynn

4:05 PM SOURCES OF AMBIENT FINE PARTICULATE MATTERS IN OSHAKATI, SWAKOPMUND AND WALVIS BAY, NAMIBIA USING POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION: A LONG-TERM PROJECT FROM 2026 - Anna Alfeus (University of Namibia)

4:20 PM The INAIL BRiC CELLOPHAN project: Characterization of Emissions in Workplaces of Airborne Microplastics and Nanoplastics - Adriana PIETRODANGELO (National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Italy)

4:35 PM Sampling and Identifying Airborne Microplastics: Techniques, Findings, and Challenges - Nor Ruwaida Binti Jamian (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
4:50 PM Closure day I

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, December 4, 2025
9:00 AM Trends of indoor air pollution: S6
S6
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The effect of chimney fitted improved stove on kitchen fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations in rural Ethiopia - Habtamu Demelash (Debre Tabor University)

9:15 AM Fuel and Ventilation Determinants of Restaurant Air Pollution in a West African Campus: Phase-Resolved PM2.5, HCHO, and TVOCs vs WHO Air-Quality Guidelines - Festus Ben (Centre for Advanced Materials Research and Development, Department of Physics, Federal Polytechnic Ede, Ede, Nigeria.)

9:30 AM Students’ Perception-Based Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality in a Nigerian University - Gabriel Friday Ibeh (Dennis Osadebay University Asaba Delta Nigeria)

9:55 AM Preliminary Assessment of Indoor Particulate Matter and Microclimate Conditions in Scientific Research Laboratories - Lawrencia Osae-Nyarko (CSIR Water Research Institute (Biomedical and Public Health Research Division))

10:10 AM Smart Classrooms for Healthy Learning: IoT-Driven Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Fault Detection - Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue (Università degli Studi di Torino)
10:30 AM BREAK

10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM AI and air quality data analytics: S7
S7
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
Contributions

10:40 AM Cost-effective, High impact : the AI_r system for Air Quality Monitoring - Manal Karmoude (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

10:55 AM Applicability of the explainable machine learning techniques in surface Ozone simulation and formation sensitivity analysis - Roberta Valentina gagliardi (istituto superiore di sanità)

11:10 AM A Scalable Framework for Sensor Data: Intra-Domain Transfer Learning in Wi-Fi Networks and Air Quality Monitoring - Raghav Chandna (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba Labs) Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba Labs)

11:25 AM "LIVESTAQSENS": AI-Calibrated Network of CH₄ and NH₃ Sensors for Monitoring Air Quality in Livestock Farming - Ambra Fioravanti
11:40 AM BREAK

11:40 AM - 11:50 AM
11:50 AM Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S8
S8
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:50 AM Field evaluation of a Low-Cost PM₁₀ Monitoring Instrument under Humid Savanna conditions at the Lamto geophysical station, Côte d’Ivoire - Julien BAHINO (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny Abidjan-Cocody)

12:05 PM Density functional theory-based exploration of structural, electronic, mechanical, thermodynamic, and optical properties of α-NiS for CO2 adsorption - Fikadu Geldasa (Walter Sisulu University)
1:30 PM Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S9
S9
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Improvement of low-cost sensor accuracy in challenging environmental conditions to obtain near-reference data - Edurne Ibarrola (Kunak Technologies)

1:45 PM Application of the Decoupled Direct Method (DDM) to support an advanced air pollution assessment system in Madrid (Spain) - Rafael Borge (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM))

2:00 PM Design and optimization of high-performance H₂ sensors for leak detection in production, storage and utilization environments - Ambra Fioravanti
2:30 PM Training and capacity building: S10
S10
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM ACTRIS European Research Infrastructure Consortium: delivering harmonised, high-quality atmospheric data and services - Anna Franck (ACTRIS ERIC) Tuukka Petäjä (Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Finland)

2:45 PM Breathing Green: Empowering Northern Ghanaian Youth for Cleaner Air - Amina Amponsah Fordjour

3:00 PM Plastic waste management and recycling - Amina Amponsah Fordjour
3:30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Closing session

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM