Team

The HEICCAM network brings together academics and researchers from multiple universities including The University of Edinburgh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, University of East Anglia, Oxford Brookes University, Lancaster University, University of Birmingham, University of York, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Cranfield University, Institute of Occupational Medicine. A list of our academic and research team is provided below.

Co-Investigators

Prof Ruth Doherty

PI | University of Edinburgh

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

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DR Alice Drinkwater

Project Co-Manager | University of Edinburgh

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

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Malina Modlich

Project Co-Manager | University of Edinburgh

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

Co-I | University College London

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

Co-I | University of East Anglia

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

Co-I | Public Health England

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

Co-I | University of East Anglia

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

Co-I | Oxford Brookes University

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

Co-I | Lancaster University

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

Co-I | University of Birmingham

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

Co-I | University of York

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

Co-I | University College London

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

Co-I | Institute for Fiscal Studies

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

Co-I | Cranfield University

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

Co-I | University College London

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

Co-I | University of Edinburgh

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

Co-I | University of Edinburgh

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

Co-I | Lancaster University

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

Co-I | University of Edinburgh

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

Co-I | University of Edinburgh

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

Co-I | Institute of Occupational Medicine

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

Co-I | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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

Co-I | University College London

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

Co-I | UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

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

Co-I | University College London

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

Co-I | University of Cambridge

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

Early Career Researchers

Lauren Ferguson

Lauren Ferguson is a final year PhD student at UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. Her PhD project collaborated with Public Health England to assess how population exposure to indoor air pollution varies across socio-economic groups. 

Contact: lauren.ferguson.17@ucl.ac.uk

Douglas Booker

Douglas Booker is the CEO of NAQTS, a business that provides holistic indoor air quality information. Douglas is also completing his PhD at Lancaster University using physical and social science methods to understand air quality in and around schools.

Contact: dbooker@naqts.com

Dr Giorgos Petrou

Giorgos Petrou is a Research Fellow in Building Physics and Urban Modelling. His research focuses on the effects of the indoor environment on health.

Contact: giorgos.petrou@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Alejandro Moreno Rangel

Alejandro Moreno Rangel is Lecturer in Building Performance Evaluation and Net Zero Design at the University of Strathclyde. His main research interests are sustainable architecture, indoor environment, indoor air quality and thermal comfort.

Contact: alejandro.moreno-rangel@strath.ac.uk

Dr Amber Yeoman

Amber Yeoman is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York. Her research interests focus on the contribution of consumer products to poor indoor air quality.

Contact: amy509@york.ac.uk

Sara Camilleri

Sara Camilleri is an Early Career Researcher with interests in modelling air pollution for both present day and future and the associated impacts on human health. 

Lucas Ngo

Lucas Ngo is a PhD Student at Cranfield University with expertise in data science, modelling and GIS. He is interested in emissions from traffic activity and waste management in developing countries. 

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

Lia Chatzidiakou is a Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Lia’s research interests primarily focus on the association between indoor air quality and well-being of the occupants.

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