Dr. Bidisha Ghosh (PI) is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, TCD. She is an expert in traffic & air pollution prediction using statistical methods, time-series modelling, artificial intelligence algorithms, sustainable transportation, and health impact assessment of active travel. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles with >1000 citations. She is the Chair of the Irish Transport Research Network (ITRN). She has been and is currently involved in multiple EPA projects on traffic and air pollution, health impact assessment of active travel, & effects of transport fleet modernisation etc.
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Dr. Aonghus McNabola is a Professor in the School of Engineering, TCD. He completed his PhD in air pollution measurement and modelling in 2008 and has 12 years’ experience working in the field of air pollution research. His research focuses on energy efficiency in environmental systems such as air pollution control, hydropower & heat recovery. He has been awarded over €4.4 million in individual research funding in 24 projects funded by the Irish EPA, Enterprise Ireland, HEA, EU-FP7, Interreg Ireland-Wales, Interreg Atlantic Area, H2020, and industry. He has been the coordinator/lead partner in 3 European research projects and PI of several nationally funded air pollution projects. He has published 62 journal publications (>1600 citations; h-index, 24).
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Mr. Paul Willis is the Technical Director for the Air Quality Measurements team at Ricardo, with over 20 years’ experience in this field. He has a background in atmospheric chemistry, and extensive knowledge of both air quality policy and the practical aspects of air quality monitoring, data analysis and reporting. Paul is involved in many projects in the ambient pollution monitoring area including “QA/QC of the UK Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network” and the “UK Air Quality Data Dissemination Unit”. Paul also manages the “Air Pollution Database for Wales”, the “Northern Ireland Air” and “Air Quality in Scotland” website contracts. Paul sits on the UK Air Quality Expert Group and has a particular interest in analysis of UK & European air pollution episodes.
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Dr. William Smith is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, UCD. He is an expert on combustion and emissions, PEMS, and energy-use and emissions in Road Transport. He has been co-PI on EPA projects ETASCI and EFDOSOF.
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Dr. David Timoney is Associate Professor in the UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering. He is the former Dean of Engineering at UCD, a Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. Dr. Timoney has many years of experience in teaching and research on automotive engineering topics and on internal combustion engines and vehicle emissions in particular. He completed his PhD on “Combustion Modelling in Diesel Engines” and also worked as a combustion engine specialists at Ricardo.
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Mr. Ben Fowler is a member of the Air and Environmental Quality field unit team, joining in September 2014 as an Analyst Consultant. Ben is trained and experienced in on site calibrations to AURN level and trains and audits LSO operators to this level. He is currently field based, predominantly completing QA/QC audits of air quality monitoring equipment, adhering to ISO 17025 standards. Alongside fieldwork, Ben ratifies AURN and Automatic Hydrocarbon Network data. Ben is the project manager for Ricardo E & E’s On Road Remote Sensing Measurements. He also manages other ambient air quality monitoring projects.
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Dr. Srinath Mahesh is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Engineering, TCD. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India in 2020. His research interests are in transport and environment, traffic simulation, and air quality modelling. He has extensive experience of working with both transportation and air quality data such as using output from traffic simulation softwares as input to air quality models to quantify the effect of transportation on air quality. He has also developed emission factors for cars, motorcycles and trucks in India using portable emission measurement systems (PEMS).
