Audrey de Nazelle
Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial London College Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial London College
United Kingdom
Conference: Urban air quality policy decision making: how a systems thinking approach can help
Dr. Audrey de Nazelle is a senior lecturer and co-deputy head at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. She chairs Imperial’s Network of Excellence on Air Quality and co-chairs the International Society on Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Policy Committee. Her work, at the intersection of environmental sciences, health behavior, transportation, and urban planning, aims at guiding decision makers towards health-promoting built environments and policies. A particular focus is on determinants and impacts of travel behaviour, including relationships between active travel and air pollution (exposures, health risks and benefits, and societal engagement). Dr de Nazelle holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health in Environmental Sciences, a Maîtrise in Mathematics from the University of Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (now ISGLOBAL), Barcelona, Spain.
Tracey Holloway
Professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison
United States Conference: Satellite Data for Air Quality and Health
Tracey Holloway is the 2017-2021 Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, jointly appointed in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences. Since 2016, Dr. Holloway has served as Team Lead for the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (haqast.org), which connects NASA data with stakeholder needs in air quality management and public health. Her research focuses on linking science with decision-making, especially models and advanced data for air quality. Dr. Holloway has been recognized with awards for research, mentoring, and outreach; she holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University.
Prashant Kumar
Professor and Chair of Air Quality and Health at the University of Surrey
India
Conference: Air quality in cities based on different reactions to COVID-19
Professor Prashant Kumar is Associate Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Chair in Air Quality and Health and the founding Director of the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey, UK. He received his PhD (Engineering) from the University of Cambridge, and an MTech (Environmental Engineering & Management) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
His research is focused at the interfaces of clean air engineering/science, human health and smart/sustainable living in cities/megacities. He is developing approaches to low-cost sensing and contributing to the development of exposure control technology and guidelines for policymakers to curtail pollution exposure in cities, with associated health benefits.
Ranjeet Sokhi
Director of the Atmospheric Physics and Climate Research Centre, University of Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
Conference: Analysis of air quality changes due to COVID-19 lockdown measures – challenges for science and policy
Ranjeet Sokhi is Director of the Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP). He has nearly 200 publications in major international journals, conference proceedings and reports. His research focusses on dynamics and composition of the troposphere with particular emphasis on physical and chemical processes affecting air quality, interactions with climate and resulting exposure and health impacts on local to regional scales. He is an advisor for DEFRA, WHO, WMO and PHE. He was a member of the UK Government’s Air Quality Modelling Steering Group and the Prediction Capability subgroup of AQSELG. Professor Sokhi engages with stakeholders on research for policy applications, expert consultancy projects and public inquiries.
Susan Anenberg
Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
United States Conference: Climate change, air pollution, and human health: From research to policy
Susan Anenberg is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Dr. Anenberg studies the health implications of air pollution and climate change, from local to global scales. Dr. Anenberg has been a Co-Founder and Partner at Environmental Health Analytics, LLC, the Deputy Managing Director for Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and a senior advisor for clean cookstove initiatives at the U.S. State Department. Her research has been published in top academic journals such as Science, Nature, and Lancet Planetary Health. She has also led or contributed to many science-policy reports on air quality and climate change published by U.S. EPA, World Bank, World Health Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, and others.
Alain Clappier
Professor at the Faculty of Geography and Planning of the University of Strasbourg
France
Conference: Which energy resources for the future of Colombia? Impact on atmospheric emissions
PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Professor of climatology at the Laboratoire Image et Ville of the University of Strasbourg in France. He plays a key role in leading research in the field of climatology and air quality modeling and teaches bachelor and master students. Expert in air quality modeling and integrated assessment modeling at the European Research Center in Ispra (Italy). Visiting Professor EPFL.
Magdalena Fandiño
Postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Colombia Conference: to be defined
Dr. Magdalena Fandiño is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she also completed her PhD. She is an Environmental Engineer with a Master's degree focused on Air Quality and Emissions. As a PhD student, she worked on a randomized controlled field study aimed at testing the efficacy of a liquefied petroleum gas stove intervention to reduce household air pollution exposure and improve cardiopulmonary outcomes in a rural setting in Peru (CHAP). She is currently working on exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals and their associations with biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as measures of lung function.
Martin Rigler
Head of Research and Development at Magee Scientific Co./ Aerosol d.o.o.
Slovenia
Conference: High-time resolution Apportionment of Carbonaceous Aerosol Using advanced TC-BC(λ) method
Dr. Martin Rigler is a scientist and developer of a new aerosol instruments and measurements techniques. His background is in the field of nonlinear optics, optical engineering, and UV lasers. He received his PhD title in July 2014 at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physic on the topic of Second Harmonic Generation in blue and UV region using AlGaN waveguides grown on sapphire substrate by metal-organic chemical vapour deposition. Currently, dr. Rigler is head of R&D department at Aerosol d.o.o. responsible for overseeing the entire development and research process of new products and studies within internal, national, and international projects.
Andrea Pozzer
Researcher and group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany
Italy
Conference: Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19
Dr. Andrea Pozzer is head of the modeling group in the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. After graduating in Physics at the University of Padua (Italy), he moved to the University of Mainz (Germany), where he received his PhD degree in 2007. From 2008 to 2011 he was associate scientist at the Cyprus Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus) and in 2012 researcher at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (Italy). Since 2012 he is head of the modeling group, with special focus on global modeling and field campaign observations/analysis. Dr. Pozzer is interested in numerical modeling of atmospheric composition, and is an expert in general circulation models which he uses for his studies. He has recently worked on air quality and the impact of pollution on human health on a global scale.
Alejandro Jaramillo
Associate Researcher at the Center for Atmospheric Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Colombia Conference: Examples of the importance of atmospheric transport of aerosols on air quality: Saharan dust over the Yucatan Peninsula and biomass burning in the Eastern Plains.
El Dr. Alejandro Jaramillo es ingeniero civil con una maestría en ciencias físicas, tiene un doctorado en Ingeniería de Recursos Hídricos de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y actualmente es profesor e investigador asociado en el Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Su trabajo se centra en la importancia de la dinámica atmosférica en el transporte de aerosoles. Ha publicado varios artículos en revistas de renombre como Atmósfera, Internatinal Journal of Climatology y Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.
Imma Martínez Sellarès
Co-founder and CEO at vöbu
Spain
Conference: How to motivate to improve indoor air quality? Experiences in building vöbu, the little guardian of the air.
Imma Martinez is a mechanical and chemical engineer with experience in manufacturing and 3D modelling. She is CEO and co-founder of VoBu, a company dedicated to making intelligent robots to reduce personal exposure to air pollution. She is an entrepreneur dedicated to developing tools for people to reduce exposure to invisible pollution and improve their quality of life.
Marco Guevara
Researcher at Image Ville Environnement Laboratory (LIVE), University of Strasbourg.
Colombia Conference: Analysis of energy transition strategies and its impacts
Marco Guevara is a researcher in energy transition strategies to address air quality and climate change issues. As an expert in simulation and computational modeling of physico-chemical processes and transport phenomena, in the field of chemical and environmental sciences and engineering, he develops research and application projects involving the development and implementation of computational techniques for the representation, understanding and forecasting of data mainly related to meteorology, air quality, energy transition and climate change.
Keith Bein
Estados Unidos Researcher and Professor at the U.C. Davis Center for Health and the Environment
Conference: Emulating Near-Roadway Exposures for Health Effects Studies
Dr. Bein received Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Chemistry from California State University Chico and his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at U.C. Davis. He is currently an Associate Professional Researcher at the Air Quality Research Center and a Research Professor at the Center for Health and the Environment at U.C. Davis. His primary research interests include the health effects of air pollution, the development and implementation of novel exposure paradigms, air pollution meteorology and air quality dynamics, the role of particles in climate change, carbon capture and sequestration, design and development of aerosol measurement and sampling techniques and environmental justice.
Luis Guillermo Aristizábal
Ecopetrol Refining Development Manager
Colombia Conference: Fuel Quality, evolution aligned with energy transition
Chemical Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Specialist in Strategic Management and Master's Degree in Computer Science and Industrial Automation. He joined Ecopetrol in 1997 and during his 21 years of experience he has been part of the teams of the Barrancabermeja Refinery, Cartagena Refinery, Colombian Petroleum Institute and Vice-Presidency of Refining and Industrial Processes; in different technical, research and development, project development and administrative positions. He currently serves as Refining Development Manager.
Carlos Graterón
Fedebiocombustibles
Colombia Conference: Climate change, air quality and biofuels
Chemist from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Specialist in Quality Management from Universidad del Norte, Master in Engineering from Universidad Libre de Colombia, Technical Director of the National Federation of Biofuels of Colombia, specialist in Renewable Energies, Climate Change and Air Quality.
Florentino Márquez
Director of Hill's Office of Sustainable Mobility
Colombia Conference: How to estimate climate impacts of sustainable mobility projects? Methodological approaches.
He is a researcher and advisor on sustainable urban mobility, citizen behavior and participatory public policy construction. As Director of sustainable mobility at Hill, he has supported the design and implementation of sustainable urban mobility and greenhouse gas mitigation policies and projects in several Latin American cities. He has prepared and implemented investment programs with national governments, multilateral banks, climate funds and international cooperation agencies. Florentino holds a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes and has complementary studies in Art.
Eduardo Uribe
GEB Director of Sustainability and Communications
Colombia Conference: Natural gas in the energy transition and air quality improvement strategy in Colombia's cities
Agricultural Engineer from the University of Caldas, with a Master's degree in Agronomy from Virginia Tech (USA) and a Ph.D. in Tropical Soil Fertility from North Carolina State University (USA). He has served as Director of Environmental Policy of the National Planning Department, Vice Minister of the Environment, Director of the Department of the Environment of Bogota (now the Secretariat of the Environment), professor and researcher at the Center for Economic Studies of the School of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes, Vice President of Sustainable Development of ECOPETROL, researcher at FEDESARROLLO; and advisor and consultant to several multilateral organizations, governments and companies in the areas of sustainability, strategies, regulations and environmental policies. Currently, he is Director of Sustainability and Communications of Grupo Energía Bogotá S.A. ESP, parent company of Grupo Energía Bogotá.
Luz Stella Murgas
President of Naturgas
Colombia Conference: Natural gas to improve air quality
Luz Stella is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario, specialized in Tax Law from the same University. She has been linked to the energy mining sector for more than 16 years.
She served as Vice President of Promotion and Allocation of Areas of the National Hydrocarbons Agency, where she promoted foreign investment in the country, especially in the development of offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production. He was also Exploration Manager of the same entity.
