Participants

  • Vigdis Vestreng

    Dr. Vigdis Vestreng is a senior adviser at the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) and project leader for the ChiNorBC-project on the Norwegian side. She is responsible for and has developed the field of short-lived climate forcers (SLCF) at NEA the last ten years.  The Agency's work has contributed to place Norway in the forefront in developing integrated policy strategies for abatement of climate change and air pollution. NEA is the focal point for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Vestreng has been instrumental in the Panel's decision to develop globally applicable Guidelines to estimate emissions of SLCF. 

  • Tor Skudal

    Mr. Tor Skudal is a senior adviser at the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) and is responsible for coordinating the ChiNorBC project on the Norwegian side.

  • Ole-Kristian Kvissel

    Mr. Ole-Kristian Kvissel is a senior adviser at the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) and coordinate the work on scenarios (Output 5) on the Norwegian side. Mr. Kvissel will act as the Norwegian focal point for the IPCC from 2023. 

  • Scott Randall

    Mr. Scott Randall is a senior adviser at the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) and coordinate the work on health (Output 4) on the Norwegian side. He has also contributed to the Output 1 on the review of emissions and measures for black and organic carbon (BC/OC) and Output 2 on the review emission inventories of BC/OC in China in the ChiNorBC-project. 

  • Ingeborg Rønning

    Mrs. Ingeborg Rønning is a senior adviser at the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) and coordinate the work on Output 2 on the review emission inventories of BC/OC in China in the ChiNorBC-project. 

  • CHENG Miaomiao

    PhD and Associate Research Fellow with the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES). Her research interest is in the emissions and policy analysis. She is the leader of ChiNorBC project. 

  • ZHU Xiaoyan

    Engineer at Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. Her research interest is environmental air quality management, decision-making support platform treatment technology cost analysis. 

  • ZHI Guorui

    PhD and Research Fellow with the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES). His research interest is in the source emission and control measures of carbonaceous aerosols. He is one of lead authors of the UNEP/PRCEE sponsored synthesis report The Climate and Environmental Benefits of Controlling SLCPs in China and participated in the revision of China’s Law of Atmospheric Pollution Prevention and Control. In the present ChiNorBC project, he is the leader of Output2 (emission inventory). 

  • WANG Yanjun

    PhD, mainly focused on the BC emission factors of mobile sources research and BC and other pollutants emission inventory development in the project.

  • JIN Wenjing

    Research interests involve atmospheric pollution emission inventory including biomass burning source and catering industry source, and environmental management including clean energy substitution policy and energy saving & emission reduction effect. Skilled at geographic information and big data analysis.

  • ZHANG Yuzhe

    Ph.D. and Research Associate from Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Research. His research interests in the optical properties of BC and the emission and control of pollutants from residential sectors.

  • DU Xiaohui

    Dr. Du is currently studying for a doctorate at Beijing Normal University. Her research interest is in atmospheric modeling, inversion modeling, data analysis and remote sensing research.

  • WEI Yongjie

    Professor, graduated from Peking University. Her research areas are atmospheric environmental chemistry and environmental health. Now, she is the PI of Environmental Exposure and Molecular Biology at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences. The main researches now are on the mechanisms of health effects and health risks of environmental pollutants using environmental monitoring, cellular models, animal models, epidemiological investigations, molecular biology and other methods.

  • LI Zhigang

    Ph.D, Associate Professor of State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. In recent years, he has been engaged in research on the effects of environmental pollution on health.

  • ZHU Xiaojing

    Master, Assistant professor. Research directions are (1) the impacts of the association between environmental pollution and human health effects, (2) study on the system of air quality criteria and standards.

  • QIAN Yan

    Associate researcher. Graduated from the medical department of Peking University, majoring in environmental health research. He is a core member of the PI group of the State Key Laboratory of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science.

  • GUO Chen

    Assistant Professor, graduated from School of Public Health, Peking University and currently a postdoc in the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences. In recent years, she has been engaged in research on the effects of environmental pollution on health by using environmental chemistry, epidemiology, biology.

  • ZHENG Yixuan

    Yixuan Zheng, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Environment, Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP). His research interests lie in understanding the socioeconomic and policy drivers of air pollution and the associated public health and climate impacts. He currently focuses on applying numerical models to inform and support China’s environmental policymaking regarding air pollution control and climate change mitigation. 

  • WANG Xuying

    Wang Xuying, Ph.D. Engaged in air pollution control, emission inventory development, synergetic control of pollution and carbon reduction, etc. Participated in the research and formulation of a number of important national technical documents on air pollution prevention and control, and provided technical support for atmospheric environment management, pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy and other related decision-making work.

  • Marit Låg

    Senior Scientist at Department of Air Quality and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health with extensive expertise on health effects of air pollution. The involvement in ChiNorBC have been in Output 4 and mainly in the activity 4.6. We have exposed advanced lung cell co-cultures with reference particles. The toxic and inflammatory responses are compared with responses using particles samples from China.

  • Per Everhard Schwarze

    Senior scientist at the Cluster of Global Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Expertise in health effects of environmental factors in the fields of toxicology and epidemiology. Senior advisor for Norwegian authorities and the WHO. 

  • Shilpa Rao-Skirbekk

    Shilpa Rao is a senior scientist at the Department of Air Quality and Noise at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health. She specializes in using epidemiological methods to examine the effects of air quality and climate change on human health and assessing future health impacts. In this project, she is primarily involved in Output 4 and 5 on summarizing the effects of BC and particulate matter on health and understanding future impacts across different scenarios in the project. 

  • Kristin Aunan

    Researcher director at CICERO with extensive expertise on the benefits to human health from reducing emission of air pollution and mitigating global warming. Involved in health impact assessment of ChiNorBC. 

  • Gunnar Myhre

    Research director at CICERO with extensive experience on the drivers of climate change and their influence on the global energy budget and precipitation. Performs radiative transfer modeling for ChiNorBC. 

  • Jan S. Fuglestvedt

    Research Director/Special Advisor at CICERO with research centered on atmospheric chemistry and climate interactions, and modelling of atmospheric and climatic impacts of different human activities. Involved in the development of ChiNorBC and contributes to emission metrics calculations in the project.

  • Marianne T. Lund

    Research director at CICERO with core expertise on the distribution and processing of aerosols and trace gases in the atmosphere and the climate impact of different human activities. Performs the simulations with OsloCTM3 and emission metrics calculations in ChiNorBC.  

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