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Analytical Forum Water Contaminants (AFWC) user meeting in Spain

Institut Químic de Sarrià IQS – Barcelona, Spain
May 27, 2026 | 09:30 – 16:30 CEST

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Join us for the Analytical Forum Water Contaminants user meeting in Spain.

What is the AFWC?

  • A forum for water testing experts from all over Europe
  • A knowledge sharing meeting from water analysts for water analysts
  • YOUR input will define the topics and agenda!

Learn from discussions about:

  • New emerging contaminants
  • Analytical workflows, both targeted and untargeted
  • Adoption of different LC-MS/MS technologies
  • Best practices and latest application/technology: improved selectivity and sensitivity with QTRAP® system MS3 workflows
  • Latest application developments in PFAS analysis (new methods for TFA and C1–C18 compounds)
  • Analytical software, workflows and high-throughput sample review

Please let us know with your registration if you would be interested in giving a presentation or leading a short discussion session on a topic of interest.

Your presentation can be about:

  • Emerging topics from your research area from your research area
  • LC-MS/MS analytical topics
  • Analytical issues
  • Software related topics
  • And more

Some presentations will be delivered in Spanish.

The recording will be sent to you after the event.

This content does not constitute legal advice. You should consult counsel to assure your procedures comply with applicable law and that it meets your needs.

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Agenda
  • 09:30 | Registration
  • 10:00 | Welcome | Isidro Griful, Senior Sales Representative, SCIEX, Spain
  • 10:10 | Technology update | Dr. Jianru Stahl-Zeng, Senior Market Development Manager Food, Environmental and Forensics, SCIEX, Germany
  • 10:40 | Non-target extreme sensitivity screening using hybrid LC-qqq MS and QTRAP technology | Michael Gonsior, Senior Researcher, ICRA – Catalan Institute for Water Research, Spain
  • 11:10 | Toxicometabolomic responses of Daphnia magna to pharmaceutical mixtures in municipal wastewater treatment plants of the Costa Brava (Catalonia, Spain) | Dr. Cristian Gomez, IQS - Sarrià Chemical Institute, Spain
  • 11:40 | Coffee Break
  • 12:00 | Retos en los laboratorios de investigación en la gestión de contaminants emergentes | Isabel López, Head of the Chemical Analysis Service, IMDEA Agua, Spain
  • 12:30 | Estrategias de monitorización avanzada en la TARU: Análisis multi-residuo de contaminantes emergentes mediante LC-MS/MS | Juan Ródenas Montano, Technical Specialist for the Implementation of New Chromatography Developments, GAMASER-GoLAB, Spain
  • 13:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 | Application update | Carlos Bueno, Senior Aftermarket Workflow Specialist FEF, SCIEX, Spain
  • 14:30 | Breaking through limitations: Direct injection glyphosate + AMPA analysis using the SCIEX 7500 system | Juan Jorge Revuelta, Technical Specialist LC-MS, Eurofins | Iproma, Spain
  • 15:00 | Coffee Break
  • 15:30 | Characterization of pharmaceutical mixture toxicokinetics by LC-MS/MS | Jasmin Uhlhorn, Postdoctoral Researcher, Brunel University of London, United Kingdom
  • 16:00 | Methodologies based on high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry for the determination of emerging contaminants in water: application to hospital effluents | Laura Díaz Esplá, Head of the Chromatography Department, LABAQUA, Spain
  • 16:30 | Closing