Selected record · 2020–present
I speak about chemical food-safety risks, evidence and decision-making for public audiences, scientists, regulators, students and laboratory professionals. This is a selected record of talks and teaching I can personally attribute.
Places where scientific judgement met a wider public or professional community.
Conversation Festival LAMPA
20 June 2025 · Cēsis
Think slowly about risks: a conversation about what makes informed, responsible decisions difficult and how risk assessors help decision-makers work through evidence and uncertainty. Presented on the Latvian Association of Young Scientists' stage at LAMPA.
Festival retrospective · Latvian Association of Young Scientists Pre-festival conversation · Latvijas Radio 1 Official LAMPA programme · PDFLatvian Beekeepers' Association
22 March 2025
A practical overview of analytical approaches used to investigate honey authenticity.
Latvian Medical Association
21 July 2023
An interdisciplinary conference contribution explaining how chemical exposure evidence becomes a risk assessment.
Conference programme · LatvianA chronological selection across conferences, specialist seminars and institutional exchanges.
Teaching ranges from recurring university courses to concentrated international programmes and practical sessions for laboratory professionals.
Recurring
Food-safety and chemical-risk-assessment teaching at Rīga Stradiņš University, with teaching also delivered at the University of Latvia and Riga Technical University.
Belgrade · 2024
A three-lecture module on EU food law and institutions, risk assessment and risk communication, followed by practical workshops.
2024–2025
Residential training in Puławy, Dublin and Brescia on sampling and analysis for veterinary-medicinal-product residue surveillance.
Professional practice
Sessions for inspectors, laboratory colleagues and visiting scientists on non-target screening, analytical capability and food-safety evidence.
The record spans local public engagement, European travel and international partner audiences. It is deliberately selective rather than an inflated count of presentation files.
In person
Latvia, Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Serbia.
Partner audiences
Exchanges and sessions involving partners from Georgia, Iceland, Uzbekistan and the United States.
Selection principle
Duplicate revisions, attendance-only events and co-authored posters without clear personal delivery are excluded.
The underlying archive will keep informing this page as more of the earlier record is verified.