Team
Prof Ruth Doherty
Ruth Doherty is a Professor in Atmospheric Sciences. Her research interests lie in global, regional and urban modelling of air pollution and its impacts on human health.
Contact: ruth.doherty@ed.ac.uk
DR Alice Drinkwater
Alice Drinkwater has recently completed a PhD with the University of Edinburgh, concerning greenhouse gas isotope ratio modelling and metrology. Her interests include future climate solutions and scientific outreach.
Contact: alice.drinkwater@ed.ac.uk
Malina Modlich
Malina Modlich has an academic background in Environmental Sciences and Socioeconomics and professional experience in marketing and communications. She is particularly interested in holistic, interdisciplinary approaches to environmental and social issues, such as pollution and health inequalities.
Contact: malina.modlich@ed.ac.uk
Prof Paul Wilkinson
Co-I | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Paul Wilkinson was a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health and led the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit on Environmental Change. A highly esteemed colleague and friend, Paul sadly passed away in 2022. We are privileged to have worked with him within HEICCAM and beyond and are committed to honouring his legacy through our work.
Prof Michael Davies
Michael Davies is a Professor of Building Physics. His research interests lie in the provision of healthy and comfortable built environments in the context of a changing climate.
Contact: michael.davies@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Iain Lake
Iain Lake is a Reader in Environmental Sciences whose research interests explore linkages between the environment and health.
Contact: i.lake@uea.ac.uk
Dr Sani Dimitroulopoulou
Sani Dimitroulopoulou is Principal Environmental Public Health Scientist on Indoor Environments and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Bartlett School. Her interests include exposure assessment to air pollution, using modelling and monitoring, and health impact assessment.
Contact: sani.dimitroulopoulou@phe.gov.uk
Dr David Oram
David Oram holds a Research Fellowship co-funded by NCAS and UEA. He has extensive expertise in measurements of key atmospheric constituents using a variety of analytical techniques.
Contact: d.oram@uea.ac.uk
Prof Rajat Gupta
Rajat Gupta is Professor in Sustainable Architecture and Climate Change. His research interests lie in advanced low energy retrofits, building performance evaluation, modelling and monitoring overheating risk in homes and care settings.
Contact: rgupta@brookes.ac.uk
Prof Oliver Wild
Oliver Wild is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences with interests in atmospheric composition, air quality and climate.
Contact: o.wild@lancaster.ac.uk
Prof Zongbo Shi
Zongbo Shi is a Professor in Atmospheric Biogeochemistry with research interests in atmospheric processes and source apportionment of airborne particles.
Contact: z.shi@bham.ac.uk
Prof James Lee
James Lee is an NCAS research fellow and coordinates experimental observations in the field of tropospheric oxidant chemistry and emissions of gas phase air pollutants.
Contact: james.lee@york.ac.uk
Prof Susan Michie
Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change. Her research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and the environment.
Contact: s.michie@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Lorraine Dearden
Lorraine Dearden is a Professor of Economics and Social Statistics Institute of Education and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her research interests lie in understanding child and adult adversity.
Contact: l.dearden@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Neil Harris
Neil Harris is a Professor of Atmospheric Informatics and has interests in atmospheric chemistry, measurements and environmental policy. He co-chairs the Stratosphere-troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate of the World Climate Research Programme.
Contact: neil.harris@cranfield.ac.uk
Dr Anna Mavrogianni
Anna Mavrogianni is Associate Professor in Sustainable Building and Urban Design. She is an expert in indoor overheating and air quality assessment with a focus on vulnerable populations in homes, care homes and schools.
Contact: a.mavrogianni@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Dan Van der Horst
Dan Van der Horst is a Reader in Energy, Environment. His research focuses on the need for new affordable and low carbon housing developments.
Contact: dan.vanderhorst@ed.ac.uk
Prof Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce is Professor of Health Geography. He performs research at the intersection of human geography, public health and epidemiology with particular interests in environmental health (e.g. air pollution and inequality).
Contact: jamie.pearce@ed.ac.uk
Dr Kirsti Ashworth
Kirsti Ashworth is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow with interests in measuring and modelling VOCs and air quality over a range of scales.
Contact: k.s.ashworth1@lancaster.ac.uk
Dr Tom Clemens
Tom Clemens is a Lecturer in Health Geography. He has research interests in the social and environmental determinants of health including poor air quality and housing.
Contact: tom.clemens@ed.ac.uk
Dr Mark Miller
Mark Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science and investigates the cardiovascular effects of air pollution.
Contact:mark.miller@ed.ac.uk
Dr Miranda Loh
Miranda Loh is an exposure scientist with over 15 years’ experience in designing and implementing field studies of personal and residential exposures.
Contact: miranda.loh@iom-world.org
Dr James Milner
James Milner is Assistant Professor and a mathematical modeller at the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health.
Contact: james.milner@lshtm.ac.uk
Dr Phil Symonds
Phil Symonds is Lecturer in Machine Learning for smart building and cities and pursues research on the health implications of decarbonising the built environment.
Contact: p.symonds@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Pia Hardelid
Pia leads the UKRI-MRC funded PICNIC study using national, administrative data birth cohorts from England and Scotland to determine the contribution of ambient air pollution and adverse housing exposures to respiratory infections in children.
Contact: p.hardelid@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Niamh Murtagh
Niamh is a Principal Research Fellow at UCL’s Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. After extensive private sector experience, she moved into academic research in environmental psychology. Her research focusses on behaviour change for sustainability and resilience with a particular focus on urban environments.
Contact: n.murtagh@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Chiara Giorio
Chiara Giorio is an Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry at Cambridge’s Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. Her research focuses on atmospheric aerosols, indoor/outdoor air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and paleoclimate.
Contact: cg525@cam.ac.uk
Dr Iq Mead
Co-I | Imperial College London
Iq Mead is Head of Air Quality Measurement within the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London. He has extensive experience developing and deploying air quality sensors for a variety of applications and research scenarios both in the UK and abroad. In his current role, he is responsible for the London Air Quality Network of reference-grade instruments as well as other local sensor networks.
Contact: m.mead@imperial.ac.uk
Lauren Ferguson
Contact: lauren.ferguson.17@ucl.ac.uk
Douglas Booker
Contact: dbooker@naqts.com
Dr Giorgos Petrou
Contact: giorgos.petrou@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Alejandro Moreno Rangel
Contact: alejandro.moreno-rangel@strath.ac.uk
Dr Amber Yeoman
Contact: amy509@york.ac.uk
Sara Camilleri
Lucas Ngo
Contact: khoi-lucas.ngo@cranfield.ac.uk
Dr Kaja Milczewska
Kaja is an Environmental Public Health Scientist at UKHSA. She is interested in modelling indoor air quality for human exposure assessment, as well as regional air quality forecasting and meteorology.
Contact: kaja.milczewska@ukhsa.gov.uk
Dr Evangelia Chatzidiakou
Contact: ec571@cam.ac.uk
Dr Darpan Das
Darpan is a lecturer at the University of York’s Department of Environment and Geography. His current research focuses on combining low-cost sensors and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models for spatio-temporal mapping of pollutants in complex micro-environments.
Contact: darpan.das@york.ac.uk
Faisal Farooq
Faisal Farooq is a PhD student at Cardiff University. His research is on finding solutions to noise and draught issues with MVHR systems installed in low-carbon housing in the UK. He works with industrial partner Nuaire and is funded by KESS.
Contact: FarooqF@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Sumil Thakrar
Sumil Thakrar is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on estimating air quality health effects, alongside other environmental and economic costs and benefits, with a view to informing sustainable development.
Contact: sthakrar@umn.edu