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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

Dr Lekan Popoola

Senior Research Associate

Focus of research

As a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, my research centres on a problem of huge significance -- air quality and its impact on human health. My main research focus has been to successfully develop and deploy sensors and sensor networks for a range of studies including air pollution assessment, exposure and health studies, and greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring. Our new approaches allow us to extract previously unrecorded data, which provide much-needed evidence and support for policies and interventions.

Other aspects of my research include investigating how observations from both sensor and reference networks can be utilised in improving the performance of air quality models, including data assimilation for refinement of emission inventories, pollution forecasts and footprint analysis in urban and, more recently, in agricultural and rural environments.

Projects

I have made significant contributions to several research projects on low-cost sensors (LCS) in the UK including Sensor Network for Air Quality at London Heathrow airport (SNAQ-Heathrow Project), the C40/CIFF funded Breathe London pilot project and network of LCS research-COP26 in Glasgow. International projects I have worked on include the NERC funded Air Pollution and Human Health (APHH) in China, the BELIEVE study in Bangladesh, the EU Citisense project, GCRF funded air pollution studies in Kenya and Royal Academy ALPHA project in Cameroon and Nigeria and a recently started collaboration on the Air Quality Management Community of Practice in Africa Project. My current research work is the NERC funded Landscape Regeneration Solutions to the Interlinked Extinction and Climate Crises that support Sustainable Development (UCAM-Regen), where I am contributing to the atmospheric observations using sensor network approach, data assimilation and developing a novel low-cost flux device.

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

I joined the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge in 2012 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and I am currently a Senior Research Associate, working most closely with Professor Rod Jones and Dr Chiara Giorio.

Publications

Evaluating uncertainty in sensor networks for urban air pollution insights
DR Peters, OAM Popoola, RL Jones, NA Martin, J Mills, ER Fonseca, A Stidworthy, E Forsyth, D Carruthers, M Dupuy-Todd, F Douglas, K Moore, RU Shah, LE Padilla, RA Alvarez
– Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
(2022)
15,
321
(doi: 10.5194/amt-15-321-2022)
Evaluating uncertainty in sensor networks for urban air pollution insights
DR Peters, OAM Popoola, RL Jones, NA Martin, J Mills, ER Fonseca, A Stidworthy, E Forsyth, D Carruthers, M Dupuy-Todd, F Douglas, K Moore, RU Shah, LE Padilla, RA Alvarez
(2021)
(doi: 10.5194/amt-2021-210)
Constraining emission estimates of carbon monoxide using a perturbed emissions ensemble with observations: a focus on Beijing
L Yuan, OAM Popoola, C Hood, D Carruthers, RL Jones, H Liu, Z Lv, Q Zhang, AT Archibald
– Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health
(2021)
14,
1587
(doi: 10.1007/s11869-021-01041-7)
Using low-cost sensor technologies and advanced computational methods to improve dose estimations in health panel studies: Results of the AIRLESS project
L Chatzidiakou, A Krause, Y Han, W Chen, L Yan, OAM Popoola, M Kellaway, Y Wu, J Liu, M Hu, AIRLESS team, B Barratt, FJ Kelly, T Zhu, RL Jones
– Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
(2020)
30,
981
(doi: 10.1038/s41370-020-0259-6)
Analysis of the variability of airborne particulate matter with prevailing meteorological conditions across a semi -urban environment using a network of low-cost air quality sensors
OR Omokungbe, OG Fawole, OK Owoade, OAM Popoola, RL Jones, FS Olise, MA Ayoola, PO Abiodun, AB Toyeje, AP Olufemi, LA Sunmonu, OE Abiye
– Heliyon
(2020)
6,
e04207
(doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04207)
Comparison of Heated Electrospray Ionization and Nanoelectrospray Ionization Sources Coupled to Ultra-High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Analysis of Highly Complex Atmospheric Aerosol Samples
I Kourtchev, P Szeto, I O'Connor, OAM Popoola, W Maenhaut, J Wenger, M Kalberer
– Anal Chem
(2020)
92,
8396
(doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00971)
Reducing uncertainty in emission estimates using perturbed emissions ensembles and novel observations: A focus on Beijing
L Yuan, D Carruthers, C Hood, RL Jones, OAM Popoola, J Stocker, AT Archibald
(2020)
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4781)
Urban emission inventory optimisation using sensor data, an urban air quality model and inversion techniques
D Carruthers, A Stidworthy, D Clarke, J Dicks, R Jones, I Leslie, OAM Popoola, M Seaton
– International Journal of Environment and Pollution
(2020)
66,
252
(doi: 10.1504/ijep.2019.104878)
Intercomparison of nitrous acid (HONO) measurement techniques in a megacity (Beijing)
LR Crilley, LJ Kramer, B Ouyang, J Duan, W Zhang, S Tong, M Ge, K Tang, M Qin, P Xie, MD Shaw, AC Lewis, A Mehra, TJ Bannan, SD Worrall, M Priestley, A Bacak, H Coe, J Allan, CJ Percival, OAM Popoola, RL Jones, WJ Bloss
– Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
(2019)
12,
6449
(doi: 10.5194/amt-12-6449-2019)
Characterising low-cost sensors in highly portable platforms to quantify personal exposure in diverse environments
L Chatzidiakou, A Krause, OAM Popoola, A Di Antonio, M Kellaway, Y Han, FA Squires, T Wang, H Zhang, Q Wang, Y Fan, S Chen, M Hu, JK Quint, B Barratt, FJ Kelly, T Zhu, RL Jones
– Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
(2019)
12,
4643
(doi: 10.5194/amt-12-4643-2019)
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01223 746830

Email address

oamp2@cam.ac.uk

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Queens' College

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