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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

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)
Associations among particulate matter, hazardous air pollutants and methane emissions from the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility during the 2015 blowout
DA Garcia-Gonzales, O Popoola, VB Bright, SE Paulson, Y Wang, RL Jones, M Jerrett
– Environment International
(2019)
132,
104855
(doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.05.049)
Introduction to the special issue "in-depth study of air pollution sources and processes within Beijing and its surrounding region (APHH-Beijing)"
Z Shi, T Vu, S Kotthaus, RM Harrison, S Grimmond, S Yue, T Zhu, J Lee, Y Han, M Demuzere, RE Dunmore, L Ren, D Liu, Y Wang, O Wild, J Allan, W Joe Acton, J Barlow, B Barratt, D Beddows, WJ Bloss, G Calzolai, D Carruthers, DC Carslaw, Q Chan, L Chatzidiakou, Y Chen, L Crilley, H Coe, T Dai, R Doherty, F Duan, P Fu, B Ge, M Ge, D Guan, JF Hamilton, K He, M Heal, D Heard, C Nicholas Hewitt, M Hollaway, M Hu, D Ji, X Jiang, R Jones, M Kalberer, FJ Kelly, L Kramer, B Langford, C Lin, AC Lewis, J Li, W Li, H Liu, J Liu, M Loh, K Lu, F Lucarelli, G Mann, G McFiggans, MR Miller, G Mills, P Monk, E Nemitz, F O'Connor, B Ouyang, PI Palmer, C Percival, O Popoola, C Reeves, AR Rickard, L Shao, G Shi, D Spracklen, D Stevenson, Y Sun, Z Sun, S Tao, S Tong, Q Wang, W Wang, X Wang, X Wang, Z Wang, L Wei, L Whalley, X Wu, Z Wu, P Xie, F Yang, Q Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, M Zheng
– Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
(2019)
19,
7519
(doi: 10.5194/acp-19-7519-2019)
Calibration Model of a Low-Cost Air Quality Sensor Using an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System
KM Alhasa, MS Mohd Nadzir, P Olalekan, MT Latif, Y Yusup, MR Iqbal Faruque, F Ahamad, HH Abd Hamid, K Aiyub, SH Md Ali, MF Khan, A Abu Samah, I Yusuff, M Othman, TMF Tengku Hassim, NE Ezani
– Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
(2018)
18,
4380
(doi: 10.3390/s18124380)
Use of networks of low cost air quality sensors to quantify air quality in urban settings
OAM Popoola, D Carruthers, C Lad, V Bright, M Mead, M Stettler, J Saffell, R 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
(2018)
18,
E2790
(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)
Calibrating chemical multisensory devices for real world applications: An in-depth comparison of quantitative machine learning approaches
S De Vito, E Esposito, M Salvato, O Popoola, F Formisano, R Jones, G Di Francia
– Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
(2018)
255,
1191
(doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2017.07.155)
Stochastic Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches to Calibration of Mobile Air Quality Monitors
E Esposito, S De Vito, M Salvato, G Fattoruso, V Bright, RL Jones, O Popoola
– Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
(2017)
431,
294
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-55077-0_38)
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)
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01223 746830

Email address

oamp2@cam.ac.uk

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Queens' College

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