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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

Code supporting "A new processing scheme for ultra-high resolution direct infusion mass spectrometry data"
AT Zielinski, M Kalberer, C Bortolini, C Giorio, SJ Fuller, I Kourtchev, O Popoola
(2017)
(doi: 10.17863/CAM.9495)
An evaluation tool kit of air quality micro-sensing units
B Fishbain, U Lerner, N Castell, T Cole-Hunter, O Popoola, DM Broday, TM Iñiguez, M Nieuwenhuijsen, M Jovasevic-Stojanovic, D Topalovic, RL Jones, KS Galea, Y Etzion, F Kizel, YN Golumbic, A Baram-Tsabari, T Yacobi, D Drahler, JA Robinson, D Kocman, M Horvat, V Svecova, A Arpaci, A Bartonova
– Science of The Total Environment
(2017)
575,
639
(doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.061)
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
Effects of canyon geometry on the distribution of traffic-related air pollution in a large urban area: Implications of a multi-canyon air pollution dispersion model
X Fu, J Liu, GA Ban-Weiss, J Zhang, X Huang, B Ouyang, O Popoola, S Tao
– Atmospheric Environment
(2017)
165,
111
(doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.06.031)
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)
Dynamic multivariate regression for on-field calibration of high speed air quality chemical multi-sensor systems
S De Vito, P Delli Veneri, E Esposito, M Salvato, V Bright, RL Jones, O Popoola
– 2015 XVIII AISEM Annual Conference
(2015)
1
(doi: 10.1109/AISEM.2015.7066794)
Statistical modelling of pollutant concentration in the urban environment at high spatial and temporal resolution by utilizing data from sensor networks
MD Mueller, D Hasenfratz, O SaUKh, V Bright, I Mead, K Meng, O Popoola, G Stewart, C Hueglin, R Jones
– HARMO 2014 - 16th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, Proceedings
(2014)
374
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 746830

Email address

oamp2@cam.ac.uk

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Queens' College

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