Invited speakers
Bart Koelmans
Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Tentative title: Dealing with the complexity of microplastic in risk assessment
Christian Laforsch
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Tentative title: TBA
Bernd Nowack
Empa, Switzerland
Tentative title: Modeling the flows and releases of micro- and macroplastics to the environment.
Sabine Pahl
University of Vienna, Austria
Tentative title: Microplastics and society: How concerned is the public, and does this matter for policy and industry?
Chelsea Rochmann
University of Toronto, Canada
Tentative title: The multi-dimensionality of microplastics – and how it affects their fate and effects in aquatic ecosystems
Claus Svendsen
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Tentative title: What the environment does to micro plastics, and how to assess real environmental exposure forms through analysis and modelling
Kryss Waldschläger
Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Tentative title: You can’t manage what you can’t measure: from microplastic transport to representative monitoring
Wendel Wohlleben
BASF, Germany
Tentative title: Microplastic issues as trigger of the re-design of polymers, exemplified by a case study on the generation and degradation of microplastic during biodegradation of food packaging in compost