Tuesday, June 17, 2025
08:45
Welcoming participants
Presidents:
• Laurence Lanoy, Lawyer in Environmental Law - Laurence Lanoy Avocats, France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
International Legal Context
09:15
Welcome speech & introduction to the congress
Dr. Frank Karg, Organization & President of International PFAS Congress
09:30
PFAS and public health politics
Dr. Cyrille Isaac-Sibille, Secretary of the Social Affairs Committee, Member of
Parliament, West and South of Lyon Métropole
09:45
International regulation of PFAS: Issues and Litigation
Joanna Peltzman, Lawyer - Osborne Clarke, France
10:15
Recent developments in the legal framework for PFAS substances
Laurence Lanoy, Attorney in Environmental Law - Laurence Lanoy Avocats, France
10:15
Coffee & Tea break
11:15
Focus: The PFAS crisis in Belgium: a lesson?
Introduction:
Genesis, crisis, regulation: towards sound management
within a secure regulatory framework?
Bernard Deltour, Lawyer at the Brussels Bar -
Industrious Law, Belgium
11:25
The crisis. Operational impacts - Challenges for the
circular economy
Presentation/moderation: Aarnout Ecker, General Manager -
DENUO, Belgium
Testimonies:
• Andy Heurckmans, Director - Grondbank, Belgium
• Isabelle Laurent, General Manager - Walterre, Belgium
• Wouter Vermin, Director Treatment and Valorisation -
Bioterra, Belgium
• Rik Debaere, CEO - Groupe Galloo, Belgium
• Dieter Grimmelprez, COO - Vanheede Environment Group, Belgium
12:05
Regulations. Towards a clearer regulatory
framework
Testimonies:
• Flemish Region: Werner Annaert, General Administrator - OVAM, Belgium
• Walloon Region: Dr. Philippe Raucq, PFAS coordinator for Wallonia, Belgium
• Brussels-Capital Region: Saïd El Fadili, Director of
the Soils Department - Brussels
Environment, Belgium
12:45
Lunch
Identification & Characterization of PFAS Sources
14:00
Advancements of PFAS Source Identification & Differentiation based on MVA
and AI : Artificial Intelligence Clustering for Responsibility Clearing
Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
14:30
Assessment on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) at Department of
Energy (DOE) Sites
Alyssa Wingard, Senior Chemist, Environmental Protection Specialist - U.S.
Department of Energy, United States (USA)
15:00
Contribution of liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass
spectrometry for the identification of PFAS
Naike Noyon, Laboratory Manager - Suez Groupe, France
15:30
Coffee & Tea break
16:00
Environmental Forensics: Deploying an interdisciplinary approach to identify
and apportion PFAS sources in the context of environmental litigation
Olivier Sibourg, Principal - Ramboll, France
16:30
Field Deployment of FRED-PFAS: a portable unit for on-site measuring total PFAS
Emily Hicks, President - FREDsense Technologies Corp., Calgary, Canada
17:00
Assessment of PFAS contamination in wastewater: innovative approaches using
passive sampling and TOP oxidation
Matthias Monneron Gyurits, Director - Ecometrique, France
17:30
Managing groundwater PFAS pollution by combining hydrology and activated carbon
water treatment
Eric Chauveheid, Water Quality Manager - Vivaqua, Belgium
18:00
End of the first day
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
08:30
Welcoming participants
Presidents:
• Dr. Christophe Rousselle, National Agency for Health Safety (ANSES) -
French-speaking Society for Health and Health and the Environment (SFSE) &
Association for Environmental Research (ARET), France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
Environmental and Health Risk Assessments, Toxicology & Epidemiology
09:00
The presence of PFAS in the water resources of the city of Lausanne: analysis
method and results gathered
Fereidoun Khajehnouri, Laboratory Manager - Lausanne Water Department, Switzerland
09:30
PFAS Contamination of Biodiversity: Insights and Emerging Tools for Exposure
Assessment
Maxime Louzon, Ecosystems Division Manager - Envisol, France
10:00
Human Health Risk Assessment via Toxicological Exposure Risk Quantification
(HHRA & TERQ) concerning bio-transformation chains of poly-fluorinated PFAS
to per-fluorinated PFAS and top assay application
Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
10:30
Coffee & Tea break
11:00
Air Emissions, transport and vapor intrusion in buildings. From conceptual
diagram to feedback on indoor/outdoor air concentration measurements of PFAS
Sylvie Traverse, Project Manager - Ginger Burgeap, France
11:30
From AOF to PFAS identification: An integrated approach
Emiliano De Dominicis, R&D Director - Mérieux
NutriSciences, Italy
12:00
Measurement of 7 critical PFAS compounds from human serum
utilizing dispersive in-pipette SPE sample prep prior to LC-MS/MS Analysis
Kristen Schultz, Sample Preparation & Air Monitoring, Global Product
Manager - MilliporeSigma, United Sates (USA)
12:30
Lunch
13:45
Human health risk assessment of PFAS on the site of an old paper manufacture:
Stakes and challenges
Lucie Robin Vigneron, General Manager - HPC International, France
14:15
Freshwater is a resource that can no longer be taken for granted – we need a
circular transformation to take place, but it is compromised/endangered by PFAS
Pär Larshans, Director of Sustainability - Ragn-Sells, Sweden
14:45
Serum levels of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in relation to the length
of residency in United States
Eloïse Brosset, PhD Student - Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CRCHUS), Québec, Canada
15:15
Coffee & Tea break
15:45
Development of a PBPK model for the female mouse from birth to gestation,
lactation to offspring: application to a PFOA oral exposure
Albert Paré, PhD Student - French National Institute for Industrial Environment
and Risks (INERIS), France
Remediation Plans & Remediation Goals and Industrial Treatments
16:15
Proposed emission limit values for per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances
(PFAS) in aqueous discharges based on the study of toxicological reference
values (TRVs)
Benjamin Denis, Expert - Hazardous Waste Europe (HWE), France
16:45
PFAS Immobilisation in Soil: How long is long enough?
Richard Stewart, CEO – Rembind, Australia
17:15
How a novel PFAS catalytic destruction technology can solve for groundwater
remediation challenges
Ali Cohen-Mangold - Oxyle, Switzerland
17:45
Breaking the Cycle: The Power of Activated Carbon in PFAS Removal and
Destruction
Annemie Houben, R&D manager - Desotec, Belgium
18:15
End of second day
Thursday, June 19, 2025
09:00
Welcoming participants
Presidents:
• Dr. Volker Birke, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Technology, Business
and Design, Germany
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
Treatment Technologies for Water, Soils, Sediments, Air & Emissions
09:30
Electrochemical Oxidation
for the Elimination of PFAS from Contaminated Water
Peter Eddowes, Senior
Electrochemical Researcher - Arvia Water Technologies, United Kingdom
10:00
Treatment of soil by in-situ PFAS washing with proteinic Bio-polymers –
Feasibility studies from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden
• Stephan Hüttmann, Managing director - Sensatec, Germany
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
10:30
Coffee & Tea break
11:00
Technical insight to Selpaxt PFAS removal technology
Stefan Wall-Qvist, Director International Sales – Chromafora, Sweden
11:30
Study of PFAS degradation by e-beam in water and adsorbed on activated carbon
matrix
Stéphane Lucas, Chief Innovation Officer - Ion Beam
Application / IBA, Belgique
12:00
Assessing the Influence of PFAS-Contaminated Soil Aging on Washing Efficiency:
Challenges and Optimisations
Mahshid Shahbazi Sehrani, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
12:30
Lunch
13:45
Sustainable removal of PFAS at high and complex contamination levels
Jürgen Buhl, Sales Director - Cornelsen Umwelttechnologie, Germany
14:15
Comparison between conventional activated
sludge and membrane bioreactor for the removal of COD from PFAS polluted
wastewater
Valeria Mezzanotte, Associate Professor - University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
14:45
Evaluation of treatment methods for the removal of PFAS from reverse
osmosis and nanofiltration concentrates in drinking water treatment
Raphaëlle Du Besset, Research Engineer - SUEZ-CIRSEE, France
15:15
Coffee & Tea break
15:45
High-performance and scalable adsorbents for the selective removal of
short-chain PFAS from water streams
Javier Silva Mora, CTO - Porelio / TU: Technical University Berlin, Germany
16:15
Foam fractionation for efficient PFAS treatment
Alix Scheer, Project Engineer -
Züblin Umwelttechnik, France
Research & Development (R&D)
16:45
Combination of chemical clustering and Quantitative Structure Activity Relation
(QSARS) models for chemical and toxicological mapping of PFASs
Philippe Oudin, Managing Director - Semaco Environnement, France
17:15
Investigation of experimental conditions of PFOA defluorination using DMSO/NaOH
mixture
Raphaël Tur, PhD student - Colas Environnement / BRGM, France
17:45
PFAS and water resources: How to determine the best treatment solution?
Romain Gandré, Process engineer - Veolia, France
18:15
End of the third day
Friday, June 20, 2025
09:00
Welcoming participants
Presidents:
• Stéfan Colombano, Engineer/Researcher - BRGM, France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Court Expert, Scientific Director - HPC
International, France & Germany
General management of PFAS in Environment & Public Health
09:30
Coupled field and modeling approach, application to PFAS contamination
Jérôme Texier, R&D Engineer - XSEM, France
10:00
Overview of existing PFAS treatment technologies concerning soils, water and air
Frank Karg, CEO & Scientific Director - HPC International,
Germany & France
10:30
Coffee & Tea break
11:00
Exposure to PFAS: One Health approach in the anthropised area of Fos-Berre.
Study of contamination and toxicity of PFAS in drinking water and analytical
developments for lichen biomonitoring of atmospheric contamination
• Maëlys Dijoux, Ph.D Student - ABO-ERG Environnement / Aix-Marseille University, France
• Melissa Denton, Research engineer in biological techniques - Mediterranean
Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE), France
11:30
Release of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Soil to Groundwater:
Importance of PFAS Family and substance
Julien Michel-Malfait, Study and Research Engineer - French National Institute
for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS), France
12:00
PFAS degradation during hazardous waste incineration: A pilot-scale study with
comprehensive analytical approach
Gaël Muckensturm, R&D engineer - Veolia Research and Innovation, France
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Returns of experience for the replacement of fluorinated afff in different
firefighting systems : from characterization to waste treatment
Matthieu Hirrien, Design, Development and Expertise Manager - SARPI ThinkTech,
France
14:00
Two case studies demonstrating in situ groundwater PFAS remediation within high
concentration source areas
Mariangela Donati, District Manager - Regenesis, Italy
14:30
Effect of soil characteristics and mobilizing chemicals on
perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) desorption during soil flushing
Arne Vangansbeke, PhD Student -
KU Leuven, Belgium
15:00
Coffee & Tea break
Research & Development (R&D)
15:30
Biopolymer based remediation of PFAS contaminated soils - In Situ Treatment of
an AFFF Contaminated Airport Site
Anja Wilken, Head of Project Management - Sensatec, Germany
16:00
Treatment of PFAS from industrial wastewater using advanced reduction and
electro-oxidation processes
Baptiste Mathon, R&D Engineer - Treewater, France
16:30
Comparative analysis of treatment processes to develop a solution adapted to
the characteristics of PFAS pollution in water resources
• Stéphanie Dugenest, Water and waste Engineer – Antea
France
• Laure Brichet, Water Resources Officer - Greater Annecy Agglomeration, France
17:00
End of the fourth day
End of conference