The RAFA 2026 Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the offer for 5 travel grants to PhD students and early stage researchers (age limit 35 years) to attend the 12th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2026).
High scientific quality of the contribution submitted either for poster and / or oral/young scientists´ oral presentation will be considered for evaluation.
For the successful applicants registration fee will be waived and travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed up to the amount of € 400 upon submission of a travel and accommodation expense claim after the conference.
Fit for food contact? Analytical characterization of post-consumer recycled
polyolefins
Elise Hecht, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Simultaneous LC-APCI-MS/MS analysis of 17 nitrosamines in diverse food matrices
Sofie Nijhuis, Ghent University, Belgium
Novel tools for novel foods: Next Generation Sequencing to characterize insect-based
food
Gabriele Spatola, University of Pisa, Italy
Beyond detection: Observing chemical migration from single microplastics in food with
nanospray
Desorption ElectroSpray Ionization (nano-DESI) mass spectrometry imaging
Louis Thomas, McGill University & Oniris VetAgroBio, France
Retrospective screening of food contaminants in Total Diet Study (TDS) samples over
more than
a
decade: a comparative study between LRMS and HRMS
Alessandro Rozzoni, French Food Safety Agency (Anses), France
From leaf waste to functional antioxidants: laccase-driven biotransformation of plant
phenolics
Cinzia Cafarella, University of Messina, Italy