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, 3 December 2025 (09:00) to Thursday, 4 December 2025 (17:30)

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

09:00 Opening session

09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Trends of Ambient Air Pollution: S1
S1
09:30 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 Environmental exposure disparities in urban markets: A Comparative air quality assessment in Lusaka, Zambia. - Emmy Nkhama (Levy Mwanawasa Medical University)

09:45 Atmospheric Fine Particulate Matter (PM 2.5), Black Carbon, and Organic Carbon Levels in Oshakati, Namibia - Anna Alfeus (University of Namibia)

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

10:15 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 BREAK

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

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

11:15 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 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 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 Characterization of Air Pollutants and Health Impacts Associated with Charcoal Production in the Awi Zone - Desta Gebeyehu (Injibara University) Muluken Mekuyie (Hawassa University)
13:30 Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S3
S3
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Global and custom calibration approaches for Clarity’s Node-S air quality measurements. - Marta O'Brien (Clarity Movement)

13:45 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)

14:00 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)
14:30 BREAK

14:30 - 14:40
14:40 Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S4
S4
14:40 - 15:40
Contributions

14:55 Smart Pollution Monitoring for Sustainable Mobility: Low-Cost Environmental Sensing for Air Quality Assessment - Salvatore Dello Iacono (University of Brescia)

15:10 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)

15:25 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)
15:40 BREAK

15:40 - 15:50
15:50 Pollutants and sources: S5
S5
15:50 - 16:50
Contributions

15:50 Pollutant and Sources - Atuyambe Lynn

16:05 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)

16:20 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)

16:35 Sampling and Identifying Airborne Microplastics: Techniques, Findings, and Challenges - Nor Ruwaida Binti Jamian (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
16:50 Closure day I

16:50 - 17:00
Thursday, 4 December 2025
09:00 Trends of indoor air pollution: S6
S6
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The effect of chimney fitted improved stove on kitchen fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations in rural Ethiopia - Habtamu Demelash (Debre Tabor University)

09:15 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.)

09:30 Students’ Perception-Based Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality in a Nigerian University - Gabriel Friday Ibeh (Dennis Osadebay University Asaba Delta Nigeria)

09:55 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 Smart Classrooms for Healthy Learning: IoT-Driven Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Fault Detection - Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue (Università degli Studi di Torino)
10:30 BREAK

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

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

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

11:10 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 "LIVESTAQSENS": AI-Calibrated Network of CH₄ and NH₃ Sensors for Monitoring Air Quality in Livestock Farming - Ambra Fioravanti
11:40 BREAK

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

11:50 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 Density functional theory-based exploration of structural, electronic, mechanical, thermodynamic, and optical properties of α-NiS for CO2 adsorption - Fikadu Geldasa (Walter Sisulu University)
13:30 Instrumentation and advances in air quality monitoring: S9
S9
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Improvement of low-cost sensor accuracy in challenging environmental conditions to obtain near-reference data - Edurne Ibarrola (Kunak Technologies)

13:45 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))

14:00 Design and optimization of high-performance H₂ sensors for leak detection in production, storage and utilization environments - Ambra Fioravanti
14:30 Training and capacity building: S10
S10
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 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)

14:45 Breathing Green: Empowering Northern Ghanaian Youth for Cleaner Air - Amina Amponsah Fordjour

15:00 Plastic waste management and recycling - Amina Amponsah Fordjour
15:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Closing session

16:00 - 16:30

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