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Number of Winners: 1
Toxics Travel Award
Application deadline: 31 October 2025
Winner announcement: 31 December 2025
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students; – Plans to attend an international conference in 2026 (oral presentation or poster).
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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Emanoela Thá
Freie Universität Berlin and BASF SE, Germany
Award Committee
Dr. Demetrio Raldúa
Chairman
IDAEA-CSIC
Dr. Giovanna Tranfo
INAIL Research
Dr. Łukasz Chrzanowski
Poznan University of Technology
Prof. Jaymie Meliker
Stony Brook University
Dr. William S Baldwin
Clemson University
Dr. Sam Caito
Husson University
Prof. Claudio Colosio
Winner
Alexander Kalian
King's College London, UK
Award Committee
Dr. Demetrio Raldúa
Chairman
IDAEA-CSIC
Prof. David Wallace
Oklahoma State Univ Ctr Health Sci
Dr. Mirta Milić
Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
Dr. Roberta Bettinetti
Dr. Xiaojun Luo
State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Louis Tremblay
Winner
Erin McCallum
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden
Winner
Jake Martin
Monash University, Australia
Anna Duell
Portland State University, USA
Tom Topaz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Sophie Gould
University of Exeter, UK
Kielan McAlinden
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Winner
Joaquim Rovira
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Winner
Pallavi Pant
University of Massachusetts, USA
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