Calling all atmospheric chemists and gas sensing researchers.

The RADICAL project, led by Prof Justin Holmes, Prof John Wenger, Dr Subha Biswas and other UCC colleagues, is culminating four years of rewarding and innovative gas sensor research with a special symposium on ‘Innovative Measurement Techniques for Trace Gases and Radicals’.

Taking place 9-10 January 2025 at University College Cork in Ireland, this event will be a unique and focused exploration of key challenges and opportunities in trace gas sensing and radical detection.

A series of panel talks and round-table discussions will bring together a multidisciplinary group of materials scientists, atmospheric researchers, and gas sensor specialists from academia and industry to explore cutting edge innovations for hard-to-detect trace gases and radicals.

Session topics will include:

• Cavity-enhanced spectroscopic techniques for trace gas detection
• Radical atmospheric chemistry with advanced techniques
• Gas sensors
• Next generation gas sensing

Speakers include

• Markus Sigrist - "Photoacoustic trace gas monitoring: a success story"
• Christa Fittschen - "Atmospheric chemistry studied by Laser Based Technics"
• Hendrik Fuchs - "Recent advances in instruments for the measurement of hydroxyl radical reactivity"
• Eduard Llobet Valero - "2D materials for gas sensing"
• Weidong Chen - "Optical monitoring of HO2 radicals using cavity enhanced Faraday rotation approach"
• Matthew Johnson - "Low Cost Sensors for monitoring air pollution in the built environment and pollution control systems"
• Corrado Di Natale - "Porphyrinoids Based Gas Sensors"
• Donatella Puglisi - "Utilization of machine learning in gas sensing for real-world applications"
• Prince Anandarajah - "Gain Switched Optical Frequency Combs for Gas Detection"
• Barbara Nozière - "Speciated Detection of Gas-phase Organic Peroxy Radicals and Related Intermediates by Proton Transfer Mass Spectrometry"
• Neil Donahue - "Measuring Peroxy Radicals with a Conversion Inlet and Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry"

For more details, please see Radical Symposium event poster and website: https://radical-air.eu/events/.

Registration is free, but spaces are limited. Please register by 22 November to confirm your place: Innovative Measurement Techniques for Trace Gases and Radicals

Organised by RADICAL, a Horizon 2020 EIC Pathfinder project (Grant Number 899282) developing a low-cost sensor for atmospheric radicals and other gases.

In collaboration with AtmoTrace, an SFI Frontiers for the Future Award (Grant Number 21/FFP-A/8973) for the development of ultra-sensitive cavity enhanced trace gas detection techniques.