Call for Topical Sessions

The AIVC scientific committee seeks ideas for topical sessions organised within the conference.

Proposals focusing on the main conference themes & topics are welcome.

All topical sessions proposals are to be submitted via this link.

Please note that:

  • All proposals must be submitted by January 8, 2024
  • Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 12, 2024
  • Upon acceptance, sessions’ chairs & speakers should submit the final description of proposals, their final papers and/or summaries (see General info & Table 1 below for detailed deadlines).

Table 1: Important dates for Topical Sessions’ proposals submissions

Proposal (description) Submission due: 22 January 2024
Acceptance Confirmation due: February 12, 2024
Final Description Submission due: March 18, 2024
Submission of Papers or Extended Summary due: July 1, 2024
  • Authors interested in the peer review of their papers should submit their abstracts and papers according to the dates indicated here (deadlines are strict  – no extension is foreseen)
  • Including Students’ competition
Topical Sessions description specifications

A proposal (description) for Topical Sessions should be submitted through the conference website by January 8, 2024 the latest, and include the following:

  • Session title: Provisional title clearly marking the topic of interest
  • Session chair and co-chair: Please indicate two names (indicative)
  • Session duration: Please indicate your preferred session duration (60, 75, 90 minutes)
  • Provisional Description of the session based on interaction with speakers and including the objectives of the session
  • Provisional Session programme: Names of speakers and paper/summaries titles

Upon acceptance, the complete and final description for Topical Sessions should be submitted by March 18, 2024 the latest, as per the 2024 Conference Topical Session Description Template at scientific@aivc2024conference.org and include the following information:

  • Session title: Final title clearly marking the topic of interest
  • Session chair and co-chair: Please indicate two names (final)
  • Session duration: Please indicate your session’s duration (60, 75, 90 minutes)
  • Final Description of the session – to be included in the proceedings- based on interaction with speakers and including the objectives of the session
  • Final Session programme: Names of speakers and paper/summaries titles
General information
  • A Topical Session typically has 2 to 4 presentations to allow time for discussion with the audience
  • Invited speakers do not need to send an abstract to answer the call (if they haven’t already submitted an abstract ) but should provide an extended summary or paper
  • Invited speakers should provide:
  • Sessions speakers must register as regular participants, but will be acknowledged as invited speakers in the conference programme
  • All other requested information including final session description (programme etc.) and summaries or full papers  (outside the call for abstracts ) should be sent to: scientific@aivc2024conference.org
  • Full papers (within the call for abstracts) should be submitted on the conference website
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Prof. Sani Dimitroulopoulou (UK Health Security Agency, UKHSA)

Sani is a Principal Environmental Public Health Scientist, Air Quality and Public Health, UKHSA (formerly Public Health England, PHE) leading on indoor air quality and health.
She is also Visiting Professor, at Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, UCL.
 
Her research interests include exposure assessment to air pollution, based on modelling and monitoring of outdoor and indoor air pollution and ventilation, health impact assessments and development of environmental public health indicators and indoor air quality guidelines.
She works closely with colleagues from UK Government Departments (e.g. DHSC, DfE, DLUHC, Defra, DESNZ) and Organisations (e.g. WHO, NICE, CIBSE, RCP/RCPCH, BSI) to provide expert advice on indoor air quality and health. She participated in the Cross Whitehall Group for the revision of the Building Regulations, Part F and she sits on the Advisory Board organised by DLUHC for the revision of HHSRS (Housing Health and Safety Rating System). She was the UKHSA project manager for the development of the DHSC/UKHSA/DLUHC guidance on “Damp and mould: understanding and addressing the health risks for rented housing providers”. She is the Chair of UK Indoor Environments Group (UKIEG).

Dr. Ana Maria Scutaru

Ana Maria Scutaru is a scientist at the German Environment Agency (UBA) in Berlin. She received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the Institute of Pharmacy at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2011. Her work focuses on the health-related evaluation of building products emissions into indoor air and other indoor air related topics. Ana Maria Scutaru is the secretary of the Committee for Health-related Evaluation of Building Products (AgBB) and of the EU-LCI Working Group within the harmonisation framework for health-based evaluation of indoor emissions from construction products in the European Union.

Corinne Mandin earned her PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Rennes, France.
She has been working on human exposure to chemical substances and physical agents and the related health effects, first at INERIS (French national institute for industrial environment and risks) for 8 years, and then at CSTB (French scientific and technical center for building) for 13 years. At CSTB, she coordinated the French Indoor Air Quality Observatory, a public research program created in 2001 to carry out nationwide surveys on air quality in buildings. In 2022, she joined the French institute for radiation protection and nuclear safety (IRSN) where she leads the radiation epidemiology group.
She has been involved in various European and international projects and expert committees, including at the World Health Organization and the European Joint Research Center. She is currently chairing the expert committee dedicated to outdoor and indoor air quality at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses). She was president of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) from 2020 to 2022. In 2022, she coedited the Handbook of Indoor Air Quality (Springer).