Team
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prof Oliver Wild
Co-I | Lancaster University
Oliver Wild is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences with interests in atmospheric composition, air quality and climate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Lauren Ferguson
Lauren Ferguson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard Healthy Buildings Programme. She completed her PhD at UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering in collaboration with Public Health England. Her research assessed how population exposure to indoor air pollution varies across socio-economic groups.
Dr. Douglas Booker
Douglas Booker is a Lecturer in Indoor Air at the University of Leeds where he delivers research and teaching on the physical and social dimensions of indoor air quality with a particular focus on environmental justice.
Dr Giorgos Petrou
Giorgos Petrou is a Senior Research Fellow in Building Physics and Urban Modelling. His research focuses on the effects of the indoor environment on health.
Dr Alejandro Moreno Rangel
Alejandro Moreno Rangel is Director of Technology Studies at the University of Strathclyde. His main research interests are sustainable architecture, indoor environment, indoor air quality and thermal comfort.
Dr Amber Yeoman
Amber Yeoman is a postdoctoral researcher in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories and National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of York. Her research interests focus on the contribution of consumer products to poor indoor air quality.
DR Amy MCCArron
Amy McCarron is an interdisciplinary social, environmental and public health researcher, with a focus on reducing public emissions of and exposure to air pollution. She currently serves as Scientific Outreach & Impact Officer for the Forth-ERA programme at the University of Stirling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Faisal Farooq
Faisal Farooq is a lecturer in the department of Architecture at COMSATS University, Lahore. He completed his PhD at Cardiff University, researching solutions to noise and draught issues with MVHR systems installed in low-carbon housing in the UK. He worked with industrial partner Nuaire and is funded by KESS.
Dr Sumil Thakrar
Sumil Thakrar is a Patience Cowie Research Fellow at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. His research seeks to quantify the environmental social costs and benefits of our decisions to inform sustainable development.