16th VERT Forum & Focus Day 2026
The 16th VERT Forum 19th March and the VERT Focus Day was held on 20th March 2026 in partnership with METAS, the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology - Conference flyer.
Presentations
Day 1 - VERT Forum - Nanoparticle Pollution Indoor and New Mitigation Principles - IAQ
- UFPs and Population Health Historical Perspective and Recent Progress in Canada, Scott Weichenthal, PhD
- Ultrafine Particles and PM2.5– are they representative of each other? Dr. Josef Cyrys
- Weaknesses of the traditional approach to the Indoor Air Quality, Jan Czerwinski
- A Unified Global Framework for Indoor Air Quality - Addressing Submicron Particles and Standardizing Universal Health Metrics, Sotirios Papathanasiou
- Measurement of Nanoparticles: From Tailpipe Emissions to Indoor Air, Oliver F. Bischof
- VERA: Vehicle Emission Retrofit Activities, A. Dimaratos, Z. Samaras
- Virtual Ventilation – Applying CFD to Reduce Indoor Aerosol Exposure, Dr. sc. techn . Christian Lämmle
- The Journey of the VERT-Nanoparticle Paradigm to worldwide acceptance, Lars Chr. Larsen
- Sources and determinants of indoor air pollutants in Europe, Carla Martins
- Solutions for Urban Wood- Burning Heating Systems, Dr. Axel Friedrich
- The Journey of the VERT-Nanoparticle Paradigm to worldwide acceptance, Lars Chr. Larsen
- Protecting what matters: Patients, Staff, Trust. Effective Protection Against Airborne Infections, Dr. Jörg Mayer
- CMF- Filter for Diesel-Exhaust since 1982, Dr. A. Mayer
- Horizon Europe AeroSolfd Project: Final Report, Dr. Lauretta Rubino
- Solution for Vehicle Cabins, Dr. R. Sala
- Bioaerosols: From Detection to the Canopy Solution, Mauro Sousa de Almeida
- VERT Application Criteria of NPTI Instruments, Ralph Wilce
DAY 2 - FOCUS Day on NPTI Review and Mission
- 10 years of PN-PTI in Switzerland: from Diesel to Petrol vehicles, Una Trivanovic, Kevin Auderset, Simone Krähenbühl, Konstantina Vasilatou
- NPTI Introduction in Flanders (Belgium), Pascal Buekenhoudt
- NPTI introduction in the Netherlands Results over the first 3 years and future developments, Louis Zuidgeest
- Roadworthiness Package – new rules on emission testing, Peter Szatmari - European Commission
- Dirty-Tail calls for Extension of NPTI to all ICE, H. Burtscher, A. Mayer
- Evolution of Pollution Control in PTI: Past, Present and Future, Alejandro Checa
- PTI Emission testers, TEN
- NPTI - Metrology for Petrol Engines with GPF, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Danilo Engelmann, Pierre Comte, Philippe Wili, Yan Zimmerli
- The Road to NPTI in Chile: From Opacity to Precision, Robert Fraser
- Vehicle Emission Control in U.S. and California, Alberto Ayala, PhD
- Ryme and PN in Spain: Regulatory Context and Pilot Test Results, Carlos Gallardo
- Particle under Control, Topas
- Sensors´ Advances in PN PTI, Oliver Franken, Michael Heuser
- Pegasor PPS-G2: One technology for different environments, Henna Isherwood, Pegasor Oy
- Particle Number Counters – International developments, Paul Kok
- NPTI introduction in Switzerland, critical review and plans, Simone Krähenbühl
- Towards Reliable Particle Number Testing of Defective Gasoline Particulate Filters During PTI, Helmut Krasa, Mario Schriefl
- Knestel Diffusion Charger Technology Knestel
- Protecting what matters: Patients, Staff, Trust. Effective Protection Against Airborne Infections, Dr. Jörg Mayer
- Jalisco Mexico, Multari
- VIDEO-Jalisco
- Dekati® ePNC - technology, Markus Nikka
- Vehicle Emissions Remote Sensing in the Roadworthiness Package, Fabio Pelosi
- Clean Air Enterprise AG, Peterhans
- NPTI Introduction in Germany - Interlaboratory Comparison of Accredited Calibration Laboratories, Dr. Sonja Pratzler, Harald Hahn
- Aircraft engine non-volatile particle emission measurements with PEGASOR Particle Counter, Theo Rindlisbacher
- New Generation of PKS100E - long term stability, Peter Schwanzer
- Nanoparticle Measurements in Motion: News from TSI, Jürgen Spielvogel, Oliver Bischof, Torsten Tritscher, Carsten Kykal, Lucia Bustin
- HG4-PCK: Hella Gutmann Generation 4– Particle Counting Kit, Christian Thomé
- BARTEC EMISSIONS, Ralph Wilce