Student and young researcher travel grants

The RAFA 2024 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 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2024).

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.

Call for RAFA 2024 travel grants is CLOSED!

Notification of applications´ evaluation will be available on July 10, 2024.

RAFA 2024 travel grant awards

Greener flavoromics in quality control: fast HS-GC-IMS in combination with machine learning for analysis of complex food samples
Lukas Bodenbender,
Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

Determination of bioactive compounds in 19 Italian varieties of Chili peppers by means of liquid chromatography high resolution mass spectrometry and in vitro enzyme inhibitory effect Cinzia Cafarella, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Combating Hazelnut Fraud: a systematic comparison between multi-isotope, lipidomic, and spectroscopic methods
Berta Torres Cobos,
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Non-targeted screening for PFAS in complex food matrices: focus on the keys to data prioritization
Nicolas Macorps,
ONIRIS, INRAE, LABERCA, Nantes, France

NMR metabolomics to study the effect of different drying techniques on edible insects: the case study of Acheta domesticus (house cricket)
Mattia Spano,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Bridging the gap from micro- to nano-plastic analysis in food
Clementina Vitali,
Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands