Venerdì 14 novembre 2025
Centro congressi Leopolda, Via Francesco da Buti 1, 56125 Pisa
Il Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell’Università di Pisa ospita il workshop internazionale “Microplastics and Emerging Contaminants in Groundwater”, un evento dedicato all’approfondimento scientifico sul tema delle microplastiche e dei contaminanti emergenti nelle acque sotterranee.
Il workshop rappresenta l’incontro conclusivo del progetto di ricerca europeo SPONGE (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, Grant Agreement n. 101028018), condotto dal Dr. Stefano Viaroli nell’ambito delle Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, con l’Università di Pisa come ente ospitante e la Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, Cina) come partner internazionale.
Durante la giornata verranno presentati i risultati ottenuti dal progetto europeo SPONGE (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, Grant Agreement n. 101028018), insieme a contributi di ricercatori internazionali impegnati nello studio delle microplastiche e di altri contaminanti emergenti nelle acque sotterranee.
Le presentazioni si terranno in lingua inglese. (Alcuni relatori parteciperanno da remoto.)
Informazioni pratiche
Partecipazione gratuita
Sono previsti due coffee break, offerti dall’organizzazione
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Programma
09.00 – 09.45 Registration and Opening remarks
09.45 – 10.00 Fostering Research Careers: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Pisa. Marco Bargagna (University of Pisa, Italy)
10.00 – 10.30 Microplastics and antibiotics in urban aquifers, the Shenzhen megacity (Guangdong, China) case study. Stefano Viaroli (University of Pisa, Italy – SUSTech Shenzhen, China)
10.30 – 10.45 The challenging life of an urban aquifer: long time hydrogeological and climate dataset to unravel recharge dynamics in Shenzhen. Diego di Curzio (University of Padua, Italy)
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee Break (offered by the organization)
11.00 – 11.15 Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) nanomechanical characterization of micro- and nanoplastics to support environmental investigations in groundwater. Massimiliano Galluzzi (Shenzhen University, China) (*)
11.15 – 11.30 3D Pore-Scale Modeling of Micro- and Nanoplastic Transport in Groundwater. Michele Lancia (EIT Ningbo, China)
11.30 – 11.45 Recommendable Methods of Soil and Groundwater Sampling for Efficient Soil and Groundwater Microplastic Estimation. Rogers W. Chia (Kangwon National University, S. Korea) (*)
11.45 – 12.00 The ENCOMPASS bilateral Italy-China project: tracking microplastics in agricultural soil and groundwater. Valter Castelvetro (University of Pisa, Italy)
12.00 – 12.15 Microplastics in groundwater and soils of two agricultural sites of China with peculiar hydrogeological settings. Jianan Xu (EIT Ningbo, China) (*)
12.15 – 12.30 Global trends in research on PFAS and microplastics in groundwater as emerging environmental contaminants. Jihye Cha (Kangwon National University, S. Korea) (*)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch time / free time
14.00 – 14.15 Beyond the Surface: Microplastics, Groundwater & Society Intertwined. Viviana Re (University of Pisa, Italy)
14.15 – 14.30 Public risk perception of microplastics in groundwater. Barbara Zambelli (University of Pisa, Italy) (*)
14.30 – 14.45 Study of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in water basins of Southern Spain. Application at the Guadalhorce Basin. Iñaki Vadillo Pérez (University of Malaga, Spain)
14.45 – 15.00 Using stream flume experiments to study microplastic deposition in riverine environments. Uwe Schneidewind (University of Birmingham, UK) (*)
15.00 – 15.15 Light Coffee Break (offered by the organization)
15.15 – 15.30 Multi-scale column experiments to simulate microplastic and tyre and road wear particle fate and transport in porous media. Stefan Krause (University of Birmingham, UK) (*)
15.30 – 15.45 Non-Fickian transport of microplastics in porous media: column experiments and numerical modeling. Maosheng Yin (EIT Ningbo, China)
15.45 – 16.00 Modelling Microplastics transport in Porous Media using Multiphase Eulerian-Lagrangian framework. Fuad Alqrinawi (University of Birmingham, UK) (*)
16.00 – 16.30 Concluding remarks
(*) Online presentations
