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Dr Lekan Popoola

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2012 - till date. Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge where with Professor Rod Jones. My main interest involve studying of a problem of huge significance in the form of air quality and its impact on human health. My work mainly focuses on development and deployment portable air quality sensors. In addition, I am responsible for developing detailed analysis technique for data captured as well as validating air quality models using field data.


My recent research involves deploying, managing and processing of data from a network of air quality sensor nodes at London Heathrow Airport as part of the Sensor Network for Air Quality, SNAQ Project. Part of the aims of the project were to provide source attribution within and around the airport, determine emission indices for different aircraft operation modes as well as comparing measurement data to dispersion model outputs for the airport. More recently, I am involved in a European Commission consortium (Citi-sense project) aimed at monitoring air quality in seven megacities across Europe using low-cost sensor technology. My task mainly will be to field validate the different instruments developed by the various partners within project.

Publications

Use of networks of low cost air quality sensors to quantify air quality in urban settings
OAM Popoola, D Carruthers, C Lad, VB Bright, MI Mead, MEJ Stettler, JR Saffell, RL Jones
– Atmospheric Environment
(2018)
194,
58
(DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.09.030)
Developing a Relative Humidity Correction for Low-Cost Sensors Measuring Ambient Particulate Matter.
A Di Antonio, OAM Popoola, B Ouyang, J Saffell, RL Jones
– Sensors (Switzerland)
(2018)
18,
2790
(DOI: 10.3390/s18092790)
A new processing scheme for ultra-high resolution direct infusion mass spectrometry data
AT Zielinski, I Kourtchev, C Bortolini, SJ Fuller, C Giorio, OAM Popoola, S Bogialli, A Tapparo, RL Jones, M Kalberer
– Atmospheric Environment
(2018)
178,
129
(DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.01.034)
Validating novel air pollution sensors to improve exposure estimates for epidemiological analyses and citizen science
M Jerrett, D Donaire-Gonzalez, O Popoola, R Jones, RC Cohen, E Almanza, A de Nazelle, I Mead, G Carrasco-Turigas, T Cole-Hunter, M Triguero-Mas, E Seto, M Nieuwenhuijsen
– Environ Res
(2017)
158,
286
(DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.04.023)
Using sensor data and inversion techniques to systematically reduce dispersion model error
DJ Carruthers, AL Stidworthy, D Clarke, KJ Dicks, RL Jones, I Leslie, OAM Popoola, A Billingsley, M Seaton
– HARMO 2017 - 18th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, Proceedings
(2017)
2017-October,
701
Development of a baseline-temperature correction methodology for electrochemical sensors and its implications for long-term stability
OAM Popoola, GB Stewart, MI Mead, RL Jones
– Atmospheric Environment
(2016)
147,
330
(DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.10.024)
Dynamic neural network architectures for on field stochastic calibration of indicative low cost air quality sensing systems
E Esposito, S De Vito, M Salvato, V Bright, RL Jones, O Popoola
– Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
(2016)
231,
701
(DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.03.038)
Source attribution of air pollution by spatial scale separation using high spatial density networks of low cost air quality sensors
I Heimann, VB Bright, MW McLeod, MI Mead, OAM Popoola, GB Stewart, RL Jones
– Atmospheric Environment
(2015)
113,
10
(DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.057)
Abatement of an Aircraft Exhaust Plume Using Aerodynamic Baffles
M Bennett, SM Christie, A Graham, KP Garry, S Velikov, DI Poll, MG Smith, MI Mead, OAM Popoola, GB Stewart, RL Jones
– Environmental science & technology
(2013)
47,
2346
(DOI: 10.1021/es303586x)
The use of electrochemical sensors for monitoring urban air quality in low-cost, high-density networks
MI Mead, OAM Popoola, GB Stewart, P Landshoff, M Calleja, M Hayes, JJ Baldovi, MW McLeod, TF Hodgson, J Dicks, A Lewis, J Cohen, R Baron, JR Saffell, RL Jones
– Atmospheric Environment
(2013)
70,
186
(DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.11.060)
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01223 336345 (shared)

Email address

oamp2@cam.ac.uk

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Queens' College

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