2 Latin-American School on
Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes
Venue: NH Collection Monterrey San Pedro, México
2nd Latin America School on AOPs
October 12nd – 13th 2025
2025 International Congress of the Mexican Chemical Society
October 14th – 17th 2025
Symposium on AOPs in the ICMCS, “Recent advances on Sustainable Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for the environment”
October 15th 2025
Professional and student poster presentations
October 15th and 16th, 2025
In June 2014 to promote the higher education of young researchers in the environmental applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), a group of scientists from different European Universities and Research Institutes founded the “European PhD School on AOPs”. Subsequently, with the intention to make the association international, institutions from non-EU countries joined the school. More countries have joined this initiative, and nowadays the “International PhD School on Advanced Oxidation Processes” (IPS-AOP) includes 75 Scientific Committee members from 25 different Countries.
The “International PhD School on Advanced Oxidation Processes” (IPS-AOP) will organize from October 12nd – 13th 2025 the 2nd Latin American School on “Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes”; and in collaboration with Sociedad Química de México (SQM), a specialized symposium on AOPs and poster presentations, during the 2025 International Congress of Mexican Chemical Society (ICMCS) at San Pedro Monterrey, Mexico.
Landscape of "Cerro de la Silla" at Monterrey
The summer school is organized for IPS-AOP PhD candidates and other PhD students, MSc students, undergraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and professionals. This School program includes (i) Invited didactic lectures to overview the most important aspects related to AOPs presented by experts of international relevance, (ii) parallel discussion groups on the topics of the day session, chaired by the respective speakers; PhD students can join the discussion group better fits their interest to discuss in more detail the topic the speaker introduced in the day session; (iii) PhD short oral presentations and (iv) poster presentations of all the attendees of the school, to be held during the Poster session during the 2025 International Congress of the Mexican Chemical Society, (v) symposium of recent advances in AOPs which will take place during the 2025 International Congress of the Mexican Chemical Society where expert in the AOPs will present their most recent studies in this field.
Invited didactic lectures at the school are typically 40 minutes (and 10 minutes for questions).
Students Presentantions
a) Short oral presentations from PhD students
PhD students are strongly encouraged to prepare a short oral presentation, communicating the advances of their PhD thesis work on the environmental application of AOP. These presentations are 5-minute talks that will be presented on the second day of the school (October 13th) and should be prepared as a PowerPoint presentation with no more than five slides. The presentations must be sent to the organizers MANDATORILY MAXIMUM ON OCTOBER 12th 16:00 HRS (CDMX TIME). PRESENTATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IF THIS POINT IS NOT COVERED.
a) Poster Presentation for all the students and professional school attendees
The advances in the environmental application of AOP for all school attendees will be displayed at the Poster Presentations sessions during the 2025 International Congress of the Mexican Chemical Society. Students’ poster session will be on Thursday, 16th October, and professional Poster presentations will take place on Wednesday, 15th October. (A0 size or 120mm (L) × 90 mm (W)). The best poster award will be selected from the participants of the students’ session. The best poster award will be selected from the participants of the students’ session.
Program of the 2ⁿᵈ Latin America School on AOPs
1st day, 12th October 2025
08.00- 09:00 Registration
08.15-08.30 Welcome greetings & Introduction (Organizing committee)
Session 1: Complementary skills
Time | Title | Speaker |
08:30-09:20 (50 min) | Strategies for successful application of high-performance liquid chromatography to determine emerging contaminants in water | Julia Liliana Rodríguez Santillan, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México |
09:20-10:10 (50 min) | Photoelectrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications | Patricio Javier Espinoza Montero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador |
10:10-11:00 (50 min) | Quantification methods of hydroxyl radical | Bernardo A. Frontana Uribe, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México |
11:00-11:20 | Coffee break | |
11:20-12:10 (50 min) | Electrocatalysis for Advanced Water Treatment: Generating High-Potential Oxidants | Carlos Alberto Martinez Huitle, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil |
12:10-13:00 (50 min) | Overcoming limitations in photo-electrocatalysis to underpin industrial applications | Jorge Gabriel Vázquez-Arenas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch break | |
Session 2: Fundamentals of AOPs
Time | Title | Speaker |
14:30-15:20 (50 min) | Introduction to photo-Fenton process: conventional and at circumneutral pH with solar energy | Sixto Malato Rodríguez, Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain |
15:20-16:10 (50 min) | Advanced electrochemical oxidation processes coupled with sunlight on a pilot scale | Juan Manuel Peralta Hernández, Universidad de Guanajuato, México |
16:10-17:00 (50 min) | Evaluation of electrodes in wastewater treatment | Ricardo Salazar González, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
17:00-17:50 (50 min) | Why five decades of massive research on heterogeneous photocatalysis has not driven to water treatment applications? | Cesar Pulgarin (virtual), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
17:50-18:00 | Coffee break | |
18:00-18:30 | Parallel discussion groups on the topics of the session | Chaired by the keynote speakers |
2nd day, 13th October 2025
Session 3: Fundamentals of AOPs
Time | Title | Speaker |
8:30-9:20 (50 min) | Characterization methods in the design of materials with photocatalytic applications | Aracely Hernández Ramírez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México |
9:20-10:10 (50 min) | Study of photo-assisted processes: dos and don’ts | Reyna Natividad Rangel, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México |
Session 4: Environmental applications of AOPs
Time | Title | Speaker |
10:10-11:00 (50 min) | “Valorization of industrial wastes in modified surfaces used in the photo-electrodegradation of volatile organic compounds” | Erika Bustos Bustos, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica, Mexico |
11:20-12:10 (50 min) | Advanced Oxidation Processes based on Ultrasonic Waves | Ricardo A. Torres Palma, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia |
12:10-13:00 (50 min) | Water and wastewater treatment by Sulfate radical based AOPs | Jorge Rodríguez Chueca (virtual), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
13:00-13:50 (50 min) | (Photo)electro-Fenton and Related Processes: Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, and Future Perspectives | Hugo Olvera Vargas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico |
13:50-15:00 | Lunch break | |
15:00-15:45 | Parallel discussion groups on the topics of the session | Chaired by the organizers, All participants |
15:45-17:45 | Short presentations (5 min each, 24 SP) only PhD students | |
17:30-17:50 | Coffee break | |
17:50-18:30 | Best short presentation award | Chaired by the organizers, All participants |
18:30-18:45 | Summer School conclusions | |
Advanced Oxidation Process in the International Congress of the Mexican Chemical Society October 14ᵗʰ – 17ᵗʰ 2025 Venue: NH Collection Monterrey San Pedro, México
October 15th 2025 – “Solar photocatalysis: technology and applications”
Keynote lecture of Prof. Sixto Malato, Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain.
October 15th 2025 – Symposium on AOPs in the ICMCS
“Recent advances on Sustainable Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for the environment“
Time | Title | Speaker |
13:00-13:20 | From Laboratory Fundamentals to Clinical Impact: Electrochemical Device for the On-Site Water Decontamination in Hospital | Carlos Alberto Martinez Huitle, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil |
13:20-13:40 | Use of agri-food wastes in water/wastewater treatment by advanced oxidation processes | Ricardo A. Torres Palma, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia |
13:40-14:00 | Solar electrochemical Raceway Pond Reactor SEC-RPR: elimination of micropollutants by solar photoelectroFenton process | Ricardo Salazar González, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
14:00-14:20 | Photoelectrochemistry: Applications in Environmental Remediation and H2 Production | Patricio J. Espinoza Montero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador |
14:20-15:50 | Lunch break | |
15:50-16:10 | Life cycle assessment of photo-assisted processes to remove paracetamol | Reyna Natividad Rangel, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México |
16:10-16:30 | Paired Electrochemical Synthesis of H2O2 and Its Application in Wastewater Treatment via Advanced Oxidation Processes | Hugo Olvera Vargas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico |
16:30-16:50 | Modified Surface to the Electrochemical Removal of Pollutants in wastewater, soil, and air | Erika Bustos Bustos, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica, Mexico |
16:50-17:10 | Catalytic ozonation as an advanced oxidation strategy for the removal of emerging contaminants | Julia Liliana Rodríguez Santillan, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México |
17:10-17:20 | Coffee break | |
17:20-17:40 | Integrated Solar Evaporation–Electro-oxidation Treatment for Pollutant Removal and Distilled Water Generation with a Low-Cost Device | Bernardo A. Frontana Uribe, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México |
17:40-18:00 | Photo-electrocatalysis: “To be or not to be semiconductive” | Jorge Gabriel Vázquez-Arenas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico |
October 15th and 16th, 2025 – Professional and student poster presentations, respectively
For more information about the symposium and poster presentations, please check the Website of the congress:
Key dates
June 9th, 2025 – Registration Opens for School
September 15th, 2025 – Deadline for Application for School
September 30st, 2025 – Notification of Acceptance for School
12nd – 13th October 2025 – 2nd Latin America School on AOPs
15th October 2025 – Symposium on AOPs in the International Congress of MCS
15th October 2025 – Professional poster presentation during the International Congress of MCS
16th October 2025 – Students’ poster presentation during the International Congress of MCS
Registration ONLY to the 2nd Latin America School on AOPs:
registration for Congress for Symposium & Poster presentations
The cost of the School is to fund only the coffee breaks & room in the venue location: NH Collection Monterrey San Pedro, Mexico
Please access the following link for further information:
https://sqm.org.mx/ii-lasaops/
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$ 2,000.00 |
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$ 1,750.00 |
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$ 1,250.00 |
$ 4,450.00 |
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Prices in Mexican Pesos
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(Name must be exactly as stated on bank account)
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e-mail: [email protected]
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Jorge G. Vázquez Arenas (CMP+L, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México), Chairman: Email: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Bernardo A. Frontana Uribe (Centro Conjunto en Investigación en Química Sustentable, Instituto de Química UNAM, México), Chairman: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Luigi Rizzo (University of Salerno – Italy), IPS-AOP General Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Sixto Malato (Plataforma Solar de Almeria), IPS-AOP Regional Coordinator for Europe
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Torres Palma (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia), IPS-AOP Regional coordinator for Latin-America
Prof. Dr. Fernado Cortés Guzman (Facultad de Química UNAM), elected president of the Mexican Chemical Society
