Annual Aerosol Science Conference 2026

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Programme

Day 1
Poster Session Day 1
Day 2
Poster Session Day 2

Monday 23rd November

10:30

Arrivals & registration

11:00

Welcome from our Conference Chair Chiara Giorio

11:10

Plenary 1
The Aerosol Society: 40th Anniversary – Prof Ian Colbeck & Dr John Pritchard

12:00 - 12:45

Session 1: Aerosol Chemistry and Physics
Chair: Chiara Giorio

  1. One Arctic, many mechanisms? New particle formation from Greenland to Siberia – James Brean (University of Birmingham)
  2. Photochemistry of iron-containing secondary organic aerosol is impacted by relative humidity during formation – Natasha Garner (University of Leeds)
  3. Surface tensions of aerosol droplets containing mixtures of organic acids and ammonium sulfate at high water activities – Mehdi Abou Hamad (University of Bristol)

12:45

Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 15:15

Session 2: Bioaerosol special session sponsored by Biodetection Technologies Research Hub
Chair: Bryan Bzdek

  1. Advancements in the metrology of airborne environmental DNA – Joy Schmeer (National Physical Laboratory (NPL))
  2. Analysing dynamic biomolecule-laden aerosol systems with droplet-assisted ionisation mass spectrometry – Edward Neal (University of Bristol)
  3. Evaluation of Dry Electrostatic Precipitators for Airborne Human DNA Collection in Multi-Occupant Settings – Muhammad Sohaib Ikram (University of Hertfordshire)
  4. From Old-School to AI: A Roadmap to Modernising Pollen Monitoring in the UK – Alison Buckley (UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA))
  5. BOHEMIAN An Integrated Real Time Pollen Monitoring and Forecasting System for Ireland – David O’Connor (Dublin City University (DCU))

15:15

Break

15:45 - 16:45

Session 3: Bioaerosol special session sponsored by Biodetection Technologies Research Hub
Chair: Bryan Bzdek

  1. From seconds to hours: quantifying microbial pathogen survival in airborne droplets with QELEBS – Xia Yi (University of Bristol)
  2. From Barn to Breeze: Characterising the Airborne Microbiome and Antimicrobial Resistance in Irish Livestock Environments – Anita Grasso (Trinity College Dublin)
  3. Relative humidity is a significant driver of strain-specific infectivity loss of foot-and-mouth disease virus during aerosol transmission. – Charlotte Reston (The Pirbright Institute)
  4. Bioaerosol collection into an isolated liquid film – Etelka Chung (University of Hertfordshire)

16:45 - 17:30

Plenary 2
Airborne disease transmission: Do we know more than we did 7 years ago? – Jonathan Reid

17:30

End of DAY 1 and Drinks Reception

19:00

Conference Dinner

Poster Session Day 1

First Name Surname Title Institution/Organisation
1 Terezija Galeković Chemical characterization of pollen and its potential contribution to atmospheric inputs to coastal seawater Ruđer Bošković Institute
2 Tanojit Paul Comparative Assessment of Bioaerosol Collection Platforms for Molecular Surveillance of Airborne Pathogens in Commercial Poultry Facilities University of Hertfordshire
3 Gozde Isik Comparison of Bioaerosols Samplers for Microbial Recovery in Controlled Aerosol Chamber University of Hertforshire
4 Phoebe French Investigating the Impact of Relative Humidity on Airborne Streptococcus pyogenes Viability Imperial College
5 Doruk Ekingen Monitoring school classroom CO₂ levels to estimate and reduce the exposure of school children to airborne diseases University of Surrey
6 Reece Dillon Real-time detection and characterisation of bioaerosols in residential environments within the UK Cranfield University
7 Georgia Osborn The transmission potential of mycobacteria – Investigation of mycobacterial adaptation to conditions associated with aerosol residence University of Leicester
8 Emily Heath Detection of airborne microbes and their derivatives using a novel ambient air sampling device. InBio
9 James Roberts A novel nebuliser delivery system allows improved dosing efficiency during mechanical ventilation across multiple ventilator modes and patient types: Bench testing in support of the INVENT trial University of Southampton
10 James Summers HYDRA – Hydrogels for Aerosol Capture University of Hertfordshire
11 Ying Guo Do Mouldiness and Relative Humidity Influence the Airborne Concentration and Phase Partitioning of Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Environments? Cranfield University
12 Andrea Milinkovic To bioaerosol or not to bioaerosol? Mineral-pollen associations in the atmosphere Ruder Boskovic Institute
13 Ahilanandan Dushianthan Breath-synchronised vibrating-mesh nebulisation delivers exogenous surfactant to the adult lung but reveals rapid phospholipid turnover University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
14 Shamil Rafeeq Performance Evaluation of Bioaerosol Samplers for the Collection of Fungal Spores and Polystyrene Latex Microspheres in a Controlled Environment. University of Hertfordshire
15 Charlotte Cox A CONTAM simulation to assess the dynamics of microbial aerosols from source in patient en-suite bathrooms University of Bristol
16 Alan Britten Hospital acquired infection: modelling the effect of improved source control mask efficiency Ph6 Ltd
17 Aoibhinn O’Sullivan In vitro comparison of aerosol delivery performance using the A-VMN and a jet nebuliser in a simulated self-ventilating adult patient Aerogen
18 Maedeh Bahmani Evaluating the Performance of Anti-ADAMTS4 Antibodies in Treating Viral Lung Infections University of Surrey
19 Cyril Charriaud A framework for comparable operational assessment of daily pollen classifier performance Swisens AG
20 Kerry Shen Investigations of Accelerated Photochemical Reactivity in Atmospherically Relevant Aerosol Droplets University of Bristol
21 Nabeel Akram An acid-limited regime in rural UK secondary inorganic aerosol University of Manchester
22 Amala Xavier Assessing the effects of wood-burning and cooking aerosol exposure on airway epithelial cells using an air-liquid interface exposure system University of Bath
23 Charlotte Phillips Marine Isoprene Could Contribute to Organic Aerosols Detected in Antarctic Ice Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry – Cambridge University
24 Ze Qin Real-time measurements of HO2 uptake coefficients onto ambient aerosols at the Manchester Air Quality Supersite University of Leeds

Tuesday 24th November

9:00

Plenary 3
Two-way interactions between atmospheric aerosols, clouds and precipitation – Ilona Riipinen

9:45-10:30

Session 4: Aerosol Chemistry and Physics
Chair: Jim Walker

  1. Cascading atmospheric responses to optically thick biomass-burning smoke during the 2024 South American fire season – Ediclê Duarteb (The University of Évora)
  2. Near Real-Time Quantification of Tyre Wear Particles in the Ambient PM Using Online Aerosol Mass Spectrometer – Rhea(Rongyan) Fang (Imperial College London)
  3. Plume Regression: A High-Resolution Approach for Vehicle Particulate Emission Factors and Source Apportionment – Naomi Farren (University of York)

10:30

Break

11:00

12:00

Lunch and poster session

13:30-14:15

Session 5: Aerosol Physics and Technology
Chair: Paul Williams

  1. Photoacoustic spectroscopy for probing water accommodation and bulk diffusion in aerosol particles – Michael Cotterell (University of Oxford)
  2. Investigating the Effect of Collisions on Aerosol Resuspension in Turbulent Flow – Nicolas Duthou (University of Bristol)
  3. Laser induced incandescence of carbon nanotubes in a floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition reactor – Jack Peden (University of Cambridge)

14:15

AGM meeting

14:45

Break

15:15

Awards Presentation

15:30

Final Plenary 4
Small Particles, Big Consequences. A personal journey to protect children’s health through breathing better air – Ruth Brooker

16:15

Closing remarks

16:30

End of Annual Conference

Poster Session Day 2

First Name Surname Title Institution/Organisation
25 James McGrath Characterising Aerosol Concentrations released from Chalkboard Writing and Dusting Activities Maynooth University
26 Varsha Sethuraman Aerosol particle size distribution of salbutamol dry powder inhalers after storage and use by patients University of Bristol
27 Andi Annisa Tenri Ramadhani Investigating Airport-Associated Particle Number Concentrations and Elemental Composition around London Gatwick Airport University of Hertfordshire
28 Carsten Kykal Challenges and Opportunities for Regulating IAQ TSI GmbH
29 James Matthews Comparisons of Pollutants at an Urban and Peri-Urban site in Bangkok using Aerosol Spot Measurements and Modelling Imperial College London
30 James Brean OpenPMF: An open-source implementation of Positive Matrix Factorisation University of Birmingham
31 Chenyang Zhao Southeast Asian biomass-burning influence on PM2.5-bound PAHs and toxicity-equivalent burden across receptors in Southwest China Kunming University of Science and Technology
32 Ru Xu Air-quality and health consequences of future tropical oil-palm expansion University of Sheffield
33 Emily Winter Sustainable Aviation Fuel Blend Effects on Soot Particle Emissions Imperial College London
34 Caleb Miller Electric charging of droplets in a cloud microphysics scheme University of Reading
35 Daniel O’Sullivan The Role of Soot Aggregate Fusing in Laminar Sooting Flames Imperial College London
36 Zhihao Cheng Developing a New Approach for Probing Photolysis in Light Absorbing Aerosol Plumes University of Oxford
37 Wiktor Jakubas Development of a low-cost, optical particle counter based  instrument for hygroscopicity and volatility measurements  of aerosols University of Cambridge
38 Sukh Brar Towards a low-cost cloud phase sensor Imperial College London
39 Douglas Walker Evaluation of a Four-Way Flow Splitter to Enable Simultaneous Condensation Particle Counter Calibrations National Physical Laboratory
40 Alan Britten Towards a practical device and procedure to identify high respiratory particle emitting hospital patients Ph6 Ltd
41 Sam Martell Analysis of Multiple Affordable Optical Particle Counters for Characterising Aerosols Generated During Wet Processing of Engineered Stone Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
42 Mohsen Kazemimanesh Traceable calibration of condensation particle counters at low particle concentrations National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
43 David Topping AeroSysProp: making aerosol property prediction ready for AI agents, and testing whether agents use it correctly The University of Manchester
44 Simon O’Meara Development of the AeroSysProp implementations of the SIMPOL.1 and EVAPORATION vapour pressure estimation methods National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Manchester
45 Stephen Robertson Characterisation of the Dekati Oxidation Flow Reactor: A Platform for Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation The University of Manchester
46 Padraig Meehan Evaluating Retrieval Methods for Particle Size and Refractive Index Dispersion from Single-Droplet Broadband Light Scattering University of Oxford
47 Oscar Zhang Developing a Physics-Informed Neural Network Surrogate for Single Droplet Drying in a Solute-Fixed Coordinate System University of Leeds
48 Jonathan Symonds Traceable automated calibration of black carbon mass analysers Cambustion
49 Emily Culshaw Comparative Assessment of Performance and Ozone Generation for Two Air Ioniser Designs University of Bristol
50 Nathan Croll Dawes Time-Resolved Measurements of Nanolitre Droplet Fission in Strong Electric Fields University of Bristol
51 Isabel Quant Imaging Droplet Oscillations: Retrieving Dynamic Surface Tension and Surface Charge of Aerosol Droplets Using One Technique University of Bristol
52 Mustafa Kansiz The development of new spectroscopic (IR & Raman) that enable low micron and even submicron particle characterisation Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp.

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