Name: WIAC2025 - 6th Workplace and Indoor Aerosols Conference
Start: 2025-05-06T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Gaeta, Italy

WIAC2025 - 6th Workplace and Indoor Aerosols Conference

from Tuesday, May 6, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, May 8, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 5, 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

8:30 AM REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle

9:00 AM Opening remarks: Giorgio Buonanno (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio), Maria Neira (WHO), Maria Van Kerkhove (WHO), Enrica Porcari (CERN)
Opening remarks: Giorgio Buonanno (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio), Maria Neira (WHO), Maria Van Kerkhove (WHO), Enrica Porcari (CERN)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle Giorgio Buonanno
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

9:30 AM Studying airborne disease transmission in indoor settings: an epidemiologist's perspective - Nancy Leung (University of Hong Kong)

10:00 AM Airborne particle emission from indoor combustion sources - Luca Stabile (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

11:00 AM Evaluation of the Naneos Partector 2 Pro ultrafine particle monitor to support WHO’s 2021 good practice statements - Lidia Morawska (Queensland University of Technology (QUT))

11:12 AM Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit covid-19 within minutes - Malin Alsved (Lund university)

11:24 AM Online particulate matter monitoring to track and control air quality in public transport - Tunga Salthammer (Fraunhofer WKI)

11:36 AM Mitigating airborne pathogen transmission in indoor environments: Inactivation effects of environmental factors - Hui Dong

11:48 AM Indoor Air Quality of Offices: Beyond CO2 to Chemical Pollutants - Sarah J.D. Nauwelaerts
12:00 PM Discussion panel
Discussion panel
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

1:30 PM Aspects of host immunity that can impact transmission and susceptibility to airborne infections - Julian Tang (University Hospitals of Leicester)

2:00 PM Human health and ambient air pollution: patterns of exposure and health effects - Heather Adair-Rohani (World Health Organization)
2:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

3:00 PM Evaluating air cleaning in Dutch primary schools: study design and preliminary results of the Clean Air for Everyone (CLAIRE) project - Esmée Janssen (Utrecht University, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences)

3:15 PM ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES (SARS-CoV-2, RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, AND INFLUENZA A) IN A HEALTHCARE SETTING - Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit (Universitat Jaume I)

3:30 PM Indoor clean air for kitchens and other living spaces - Prashant Kumar (Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey)

3:45 PM Outdoor Concentration versus Personal Exposure in Urban Residents: Which PM2.5 Metric Is Associated with Respiratory Pathophysiology? - Jim Zhang (Duke University)
4:00 PM Discussion panel
Discussion panel
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle

4:30 PM Poster & Exhibitor social hour: networking with drinks and researchers
Poster & Exhibitor social hour: networking with drinks and researchers
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

9:30 AM Ventilation (huh, yeah). What is it good for? - Pawel Wargocki (Technical University of Denmark)

10:00 AM Designing the Air: Maximizing Viral Decay to Limit Disease Transmission - Allen Haddrell (University of Bristol)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

11:00 AM Crowd-Data Collection of Indoor CO₂-Levels using Portable CO2-Sensors and a Mobile App - Aurel Wünsch

11:15 AM Carbon Dioxide Measurements at Multiple Points in an Elementary School Classroom And Risk Estimation of Airborne Transmission: A Two-Month Field Campaign - Mariana Mendina (Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingeniería Ambiental, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.)

11:30 AM FAR-UV Technology and Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV): A Policy and Research Review for Indoor Air Quality and Disease Transmission Control - Gigi Gronvall (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security) Paula Olsiewski (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security)

11:45 AM Is the usual social distance sufficient to avoid airborne infection of expiratory droplets in indoor environments? - Hai Guo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
12:00 PM Discussion panel
Discussion panel
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

1:30 PM Building Performance Standards & Risk Assessment Tools: Perspectives from Facilities Management - Alexander Mikszewski (Queensland University of Technology)

2:00 PM Modelling Natural Processes: A Multidisciplinary Advantage or Burden - Andre Henriques (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN))
2:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

3:00 PM Dynamics of Airborne Epidemics Are Strongly Determined by Heterogeneity in Ventilation: Insights from Hybrid Air-Dynamic Disease Models - David Fisman (University of Toronto)

3:15 PM The role of numerical modeling in improving indoor air quality - Fausto Arpino (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)

3:30 PM Studying performance of mobile air cleaning devices in classrooms: a pilot study comparing two passive bio-aerosol sampling methods - Inge Wouters (Utrecht University)

3:45 PM Indoor air quality assessment through relationships between fungal and bacterial loads and physical parameters in primary school classrooms in Montevideo, Uruguay - Paola Scavone (Department of Microbiology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay)
4:00 PM Discussion panel
Discussion panel
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle

4:30 PM Posters & Exhibitors social hour: Networking with drinks and researchers
Posters & Exhibitors social hour: Networking with drinks and researchers
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Thursday, May 8, 2025
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

8:45 AM Setting the Stage for the Final Session -

9:00 AM Translating scientific knowledge into policies that ensure clean indoor air - Lidia Morawska (Queensland University of Technology)

9:30 AM Indoor Airborne Pathogen Transmission and Mitigation, a Multidisciplinary Review, Remaining Gaps and Actionable Improvements - Gigi Gronvall (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security)

10:00 AM Application to building policy, what is missing, needed to improve/implement and next steps - Walt Vernon (Mazzetti)

10:30 AM Safe and scalable care in the context of respiratory pathogens - Janet Diaz
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle
Contributions

11:30 AM Public Empowerment in a Time of Crisis: The Effectiveness of Do-It-Yourself Air Cleaners - Richard Corsi (University of California, Davis)

12:00 PM Data gaps, the precautionary principle, and the tragic consequences of type-II errors - Donald Milton (University of Maryland)
12:30 PM Discussion panel & closing remarks
Discussion panel & closing remarks
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Angevin Aragonese Castle