Students' Competition

The purpose of the student competition is to reward outstanding Bachelor or Masters thesis work on ventilation, airtightness, ventilative cooling or any other topic related to the topics of the AIVC conference. With the competition, AIVC aims to highlight valuable student work and to put forward young talents in research in these domains, giving them an excellent opportunity to present their thesis work at the AIVC conference.

Student competition rules
  1. Participants to the competition should submit a conference paper (see also Call for Abstracts & Papers ), and present a poster at the AIVC conference. The work presented should be based on either a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis. Please note that submissions based on PhD research will not be eligible for the student competition. However, PhD students can submit entries based on their Bachelor’s or Master’s work.
  2. The subject of the students’ works should be linked to the AIVC activities areas, as illustrated by the list of conference topics.
  3. The work has been done either by an individual student or a team of maximum two students.
  4. The paper should follow the AIVC paper template, and be written in English. Poster presentations at the conference should be given in English.
  5. The deadline for the reception of entries is the same as for reception of other conference abstracts.
Organisation, criteria and awards
  1. The participants will present their work during a poster session at the conference, and prepare an oral presentation.
  2. All participants and their institutions receive a certificate of participation upon request.
  3. The jury, consisting of at least 3 members of the AIVC board, will define a winner, based on scientific merit, poster and presentation quality and relevance for AIVC.
  4. The winners will be announced and receive the student competition award in the closing session of the conference.
  5. The winners will have the opportunity to record a presentation of their work which will be promoted on AIVC, TightVent and venticool websites and social media.
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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).