Welkom en opening van het congres door Remi Hompe (Binnenklimaat Nederland)

Luchtkwaliteit en infectiepreventie: het belang van integraal, praktijkgericht onderzoek. Door Prof. dr. Lidwien Smit (Universiteit Utrecht, onderzoeksleider CLAIRE) & Keynote speaker Prof. dr. Atze Boerstra (TU Delft)

1. An introduction to the Finnish E3 project followed by a detailed overview of the daycare centre research conducted as part of the project. By Arto Säämänen, Technical research centre of Finland, VTT. 

2. The role of indoor air purifiers in pandemic and post-pandemic times. By Prof. Dr. Christof Asbach, Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology, IUTA.

3. Ventilatie in klaslokalen en luchtreinigers – theorie en praktijk. Met welke kennis kan CLAIRE fabrikanten helpen met innovatie en productontwikkeling? Door Marcel Loomans & Anneloes de Lange

4. Schonere lucht? Zo doen we dat! De gebruiker in beeld. Hoe kijken scholen en zorginstellingen naar luchtkwaliteit en infectiepreventie? Ook nu COVID-19 uit beeld raakt? Wat is er nodig voor vertrouwen in innovatieve technieken? Door Judy Veldhuijzen, Stefanie Meeuwis, Amy de Bruijn, Remi Hompe & Penny Senior

5. MItigation STrategies for airborne infection control – issues in practice. By Prof. Dr. Atze Boerstra & Dr. Elham Maghsoudi Nia

Atze Boerstra is hoogleraar gebouwinstallatie aan de faculteit Bouwkunde van de TU Delft. Tevens is hij directeur van bba binnenmilieu, een adviesbureau gespecialiseerd in gebouwonderzoek en advies op het gebied van luchtkwaliteit en thermisch comfort. Tijdens de COVID pandemie was Atze o.a. betrokken bij de ontwikkeling van internationale ventilatie- en luchtreinigingsrichtlijnen (oa via REHVA, de Europese associatie van ingenieursverenigingen gespecialiseerd in gebouwtechniek). Hij is tevens actief als lid van zowel Nederlandse (NEN) als Europese ventilatie- en binnenklimaat-normcommissies (CEN).

Marcel Loomans is Associate Professor in the Building Performance Group in the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research is grouped under the name Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Performance. This includes areas of expertise related to building engineering, indoor environment, building physics, computational fluid dynamics and performance based building. His research interests focus on the performance of the indoor environment (mainly thermal and air quality), both in the design and in use phases. This topic is very multidisciplinary and requires close collaboration. It touches several fields of expertise.

Arto Säämänen is a Principal Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. His research has mainly focused on indoor air quality, airborne contaminants, exposure control, ventilation, and the participatory development of clean air solutions. He has 40 years of experience in many pragmatic research and development projects on exposure science. Arto is a work package leader at Finnish E3, Excellence in Pandemic Response and Enterprise Solutions Co-Innovation project. 

Christof Asbach received his engineering diploma in 2000 for a thesis on improvements of atmospheric measurements of ultrafine particles and a PhD in 2004 for the development of a system to accurately measure ambient fine dust particles, both from the University of Duisburg-Essen. During a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Minnesota he worked on the prevention of particulate contamination in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) systems, before joining the Institute of Environment & Energy, Technology & Analytics (IUTA) in Duisburg in 2006, where he became head of the department Filtration & Aerosol Research in 2013. Since 2020 he is president of the Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (Society for Aerosol Research) and since 2022 honorary professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Dr. Asbach’s research interest are mainly in the field of aerosol and air quality characterization in different fields, including indoor and ambient air, air filtration and brake dust emissions. Dr. Asbach has published around 100 peer-reviewed papers related to aerosol science. 

Anneloes de Lange is scientist at the TNO department of building, infrastructure and maritime in Delft with a focus on creating a more sustainable build environment within the healthcare and school sector. Specific for the CLAIRE project, she conducted research regarding WP2 which focusses on the relation between particle distribution and ventilation efficiency in classrooms. 

Judy Veldhuijzen is Associate Professor in the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit at Leiden University.

Hoe maken we het verschil? Prioriteiten en perspectieven voor onderzoek en praktijk. Door Prof. dr Atze Boerstra (TU Delft), Tanja van Nes (PO raad) & MD Charlotte Hoffman (LUMC). Onder leiding van Twan van Hooff (TU Eindhoven)