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
- Vehicle Emission Control in U.S. and California, Alberto Ayala, PhD
- Measurement of Nanoparticles: From Tailpipe Emissions to Indoor Air, Oliver F. Bischof
- NPTI Introduction in Flanders (Belgium), Pascal Buekenhoudt
- 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
- Ultrafine particles and PM2.5– are they representative of each other? Dr. Josef Cyrys, Alexandra Schneider, Regina Pickford, Kathrin Wolf and Annette Peters
- Weaknesses of the traditional approach to the Indoor Air Quality, Jan Czerwinski
- PTI Emission testers, TEN
- VERA: Vehicle Emission Retrofit Activities, A. Dimaratos, Z. Samaras
- 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
- Solutions for Urban Wood- Burning Heating Systems, Dr. Axel Friedrich
- 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
- 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
- Knestel Diffusion Charger Technology Knestel
- Sources and determinants of indoor air pollutants in Europe, Carla Martins
- CMF- Filter for Diesel-Exhaust since 1982, A. Mayer
- Protecting what matters: Patients, Staff, Trust. Effective Protection Against Airborne Infections, Dr. Jörg Mayer
- Jalisco Mexico, Multari
- VIDEO-Jalisco
- Dekati® ePNC - technology, Markus Nikka
- A Unified Global Framework for Indoor Air Quality - Addressing Submicron Particles and Standardizing Universal Health Metrics, Sotirios Papathanasiou
- 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
- Horizon Europe AeroSolfd Project: Final Report, Dr. Lauretta Rubino
- Solution for Vehicle Cabins, Dr. R. Sala
- New Generation of PKS100E - long term stability, Peter Schwanzer
- Bioaerosols: From Detection to the Canopy Solution, Mauro Sousa de Almeida
- Nanoparticle Measurements in Motion: News from TSI, Jürgen Spielvogel, Oliver Bischof, Torsten Tritscher, Carsten Kykal, Lucia Bustin
- Roadworthiness Package – new rules on emission testing, Peter Szatmari
- HG4-PCK: Hella Gutmann Generation 4– Particle Counting Kit, Christian Thomé
- 10 years of PN-PTI in Switzerland: from Diesel to Petrol vehicles, Una Trivanovic, Kevin Auderset, Simone Krähenbühl, Konstantina Vasilatou
- UFPs and Population Health Historical Perspective and Recent Progress in Canada, Scott Weichenthal, PhD
- VERT Application Criteria of NPTI Instruments, Ralph Wilce
- BARTEC EMISSIONS, Ralph Wilce
- NPTI introduction in the Netherlands Results over the first 3 years and future developments, Louis Zuidgeest