International Presentations
I prefer giving visually entertaining presentations which are difficult to understand without the context. Therefore I generally do not publish the slides for my presentations. Please see my articles if you are looking for scientific content.
2024
1st International Workshop on Asphalt Recycling Technologies, Hot Asphalt Recycling, Aachen, Germany, 9-10.09.2024, (keynote lecture) PPT
Transport Research Arena 2024, Highly Recycled Asphalt Pavement: Recommendations for Producers and Road Owners, Dublin, Ireland, 15-18.04.2024 (oral presentation)
Latin America Week 2024, Potential use of lignin filler waste for the production of sustainable warm asphalt mixtures, St.Gallen, 21-24.10.2024
2023
AsphaltSuisse conference, Highly Recycled Asphalt Pavement, 03.02.2023 (invited presentation)
14th Provial International Congress and Technology Fair 2023, Towards unlimited asphalt recycling, Pucon, Chile, 06.-10.11.2023 (keynote lecture)
MRP 2023, RAP is not always RAP, Warsaw, Poland, 18.10.2023, (keynote lecture) recording
2022
Machine Learning and Bituminous Materials, Workshop: A Shared Database for Asphalt Test Results: Are You In?, Palermo, Italy, 21.09.2022 (invited presentation)
7th Dresden Asphalt Days: Recycelter Asphalt ist nicht gleich recycelter Asphalt: Forschungsergebnisse zum RAP-Management, Dresden, Germany, 9-10.06.2022 (invited presentation)
IndianOil Golden Jubilee Webinar Series. Asphalt Recycling. 28.02.2022, online (invited presentation)
2021
Eurobitume & Euroasphalt congress: Towards 100% Recycled High-Modulus Asphalt Concrete, online, 15-17.06.2021
2020
Covid '19
2019
EAPA Workshop on the Use of Rejuvenators in Asphalt Mixtures, Towards 100% RA mixes - Mix evaluation and need of balanced mix design, Padua, Italy, 10-11.09.2019 (invited oral presentation)
2nd Asphalt Innovation Symposium, Three lessons for improving quality of mixtures with high recycled asphalt pavement content, Antwerp, Belgium, 12.12.2019 (invited oral presentation)
2018
Organic binders in road construction, Re-using the reclaimed asphalt, Moscow, Russia, 22-23.11.2018 (invited oral presentation)
ISAP 2018 conference, Design of 100% RAP Hot-Mix asphalt to balance rutting and cracking performance, Fortaleza, Brazil, 19-21.06.2018 (oral presentation)
Eurobitume and Euroasphalt event (E&E event 2018). Engineered presentation, Berlin, Germany, 14-15.06.2018. (invited oral presentation)
Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting, Comparing different rejuvenator addition locations in asphalt plant based on mechanical and chemical properties of binder, Washington, DC, 07-11.01.2017 (poster presentation)
ISAP day 2018, Mix design for hot mix recycling of RAP, Washington, DC, 07.01.2017 (invited oral presentation)
4th annual conference "Research in road engineering", Design and quality control of asphalt mixtures containing reclaimed asphalt, Riga, Latvia, 23.01.2018 (invited oral presentation)
2017
29th International Baltic Road Conference, Effect of rejuvenation addition location in asphalt plant on binder properties, Tallinn, Estonia, 27-30.08.2017 (oral presentation)
3rd annual conference "Research in road engineering", Development of guidelines for use of locally available reclaimed asphalt in hot mix asphalt, Riga, Latvia, 24.01.2017 (invited oral presentation)
2016
2nd Asia Regional Congress & Exhibition, 100% recycled asphalt, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16-20.10.2016 (invited oral presentation)
6th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress, Towards production of 100% recycled asphalt, Prague, Czech Republic, 1-3.06.2016 (oral presentation)
2015
6th Transport Research Arena, 100% hot mix asphalt recycling: challenges and benefits, Warsaw, Poland, 18-21.04.2015 (poster presentation)
The 9th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Performance Evaluation of High Modulus Asphalt Concrete Mixtures, Dalian, China, 9-13.2015 (oral presentation)
The 9th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Total Hot-Mix Recycling of Asphalt, Dalian, China, 9-13.2015 (oral presentation)
The 9th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, First Trial to Design up to 50% Recycled Hot Mix Asphalt in Latvia, Dalian, China, 9-13.2015 (oral presentation)
TEDx Riga, How green asphalt roads will save your tax money, Riga, Latvia, 11.06.2015 (oral presentation)
Annual conference of Latvian State Roads, Asphalt Recycling, Riga, Latvia, 22.03.2015 (oral presentation)
Research in Trsnportation Engineering 2014/2015, 100% recycled hot mix asphalt, Riga, Latvia, 22.02.2015 (oral presentation)
2014
ISAP TC on Constitutive Modelling: 2014, Washington, D.C., 12.01.2014 (oral presentation)
2013
The XXVIII International Baltic Road Conference, Use of Rejuvenators for Production of Sustainable High Content RAP Hot Mix Asphalt, Vilnius, Lithuania, 26-28.08.2013 (oral presentation)
Multi-Scale Modeling & Characterisation of Infrastructure Materials: RILEM 8, Finite Element Modeling of Rejuvenator Diffusion in RAP Binder Film – Simulation of Plant Mixing Process, 10-12.06.2013 (oral presentation)
Multi-Scale Modeling & Characterisation of Infrastructure Materials: RILEM 8, Insulating Pavements to Extend Service Life, 10-12.06.2013 (oral presentation)
5th European Asphalt Technology Association Conference, Low temperature properties of rejuvenated 100% reclaimed asphalt pavement mixtures, Braunschweig, Germany, 03-05.06.2013 (poster presentation)
2012
Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting, Evaluation of Rejuvenator's Effectiveness with Conventional Mix Testing for 100% RAP Mixtures, Washington, D.C., 13.-17.01.2013 (oral presentation)
Fulbright Enrichment Seminar; From Lab to Market, Asphalt is turning green, Seattle, US, 29.05-02.06.2012 (oral presentation)
5th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress, Calculation of Asphalt Production energy flow to compare warm and hot mix asphalt, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.-15.06.2012 (poster presentation)
5th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress, Research on the use of BOF steel slag aggregates with dolomite sand waste to develop high performance asphalt concrete, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.-15.06.2012 (poster presentation)
2011
2nd International Warm Mix conference, Laboratory evaluation of organic and chemical Warm Mix Asphalt technologies, St.Lois, Missouri, US, 11.-13.10.2011 (oral presentation)
Annual meeting of North East Asphalt producer Group (NEAUPG), Laboratory evaluation of two warm mix asphalt technologies, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 05-06.10.2011 (poster presentation)
5th International conference "Bituminous mixtures and pavements", Laboratory evaluation of warm mix asphalt properties, Thessaloniki, Greece, 01-03.06.2011 (poster presentation)
International conference "Civil Engineering '11", Analysis of the possibilities for the use of Warm Mix Asphalt in Latvia, Jelgava, Latvia, 12-13.05.2011 (oral presentation)
8th International conference "Environmental Engineering", Calculation model of energy consumption inventory for comparison of Warm Mix Asphalt and Hot Mix Asphalt, Vilnius, Lithuania, 19-20.05.2011 (oral presentation)
2010
RTU 51st International Scientific Conference, Research on properties of Warm Mix Asphalt, Riga, Latvia, 14.10.2010 (oral presentation)