Azimil Gani Alam
Azimil Gani Alam is holding an bachelor and master’s degree in mechanical engineering (ventilation & indoor air quality study) from University of Indonesia and Kookmin University South Korea with over six years of enthusiastic and certified experience in building energy and ventilation audits in Indonesia, Azimil Gani Alam has honed his expertise in this critical field.
He is now pursuing a PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, focusing on developing a Novel User-Oriented Building Management System to Optimize Indoor Environment control in Educational Buildings under DiggMinSkole’s project with supervision and coordination by NILU, NAAF and Oslo Kommune.
Erik Andresen
Erik Andresen is head of the section at NILU dealing with inorganic analyses. He is educated in chemical engineering at Sofienberg Technical College. Erik started in NILU's inorganic laboratory in 1989 as a chemical technician.
Erik has knowledge and experience with all the analysis methods. In 2007, he was hired as operations manager for his department. He was then employed as an engineer. The job involved customer contact, ordering analyses and reporting the analysis results to the customers.
Erik has been involved in starting up laboratories in five different countries. The job involves quality control of the analysis results before they are sent out to customers. Erik has a lot of experience in the following fields: analyses of cations and anions using ion chromatography, pH measurements in precipitation, analyses of precipitation dust, gravimetrically determination of PM2.5 and PM10 on filters, as well as determination of NO2, SO2 and NH3 using passive samplers.
Francis Barre
Francis Barre works as a PhD Candidate jointly at NILU in Trondheim and NTNU, focusing on assessing socioeconomic exposure to natural hazards.
He holds a master's degree from NTNU in Industrial Ecology as well as an engineering diploma from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Saclay in France, both of which he graduated from in 2023.
His PhD work focuses on developing a multisectoral model of the Norwegian Economy at very high geographic resolution. The goal is to help municipalities and industries to reduce risks related to natural hazards, which are growing with climate change.
Apart from his PhD work, Francis Barre has also been collaborating on several European Topic Centres tasks in Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/CME) for the European Environment Agency, developing environmental impact assessment methods such as Input Output (IO) and Life-cycle assessment (LCA).
Alena Bartonova
Dr. Alena Bartonova’s core research area is environmental exposure assessment. Her work rests on high levels of interdisciplinary collaboration and often supports science use for policies. She is interested in environmental/air quality assessment methods combining results from monitoring and diverse measurement technologies (including low-cost sensors) with models, resulting in a basis for health impact assessment, and in development of methods for practical use.
Alena has a MSc and a RNDr degree in Probability and Mathematical Statistics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, CZ, and PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Faculty of Science of the same University. She started at NILU as a post doc 1987-1990, when she was studying environmental epidemiology methods and the relationship between air pollution and material damage.
Alena has served in several positions of trust nationally and internationally, including as in expert groups within the fifth and seventh Framework Programs for research of the EU, and as a member of SCHER 2013-2016. She has coordinated or co-coordinated several EU-co-funded research and innovation projects. Alena serves as Research Director - coordinator for EU research and Manager, European Topic Center for human health and environment.
Mohamed-Bachir Belaid
Dr. Mohamed-Bachir Belaid serves as a researcher at NILU based at Kjeller, Norway.
He earned his master’s degree in computer science and optimization in 2016 at USTO university in Oran, Algeria.
He then continued his studies at the University of Montpellier, south of France, where he earned his PhD in Constraint reasoning and Data mining. His PhD work was implemented as part of a library in the Choco constraint solver.
Before joining NILU, he worked as postdoc at Simula and at OsloMet. At Simula, he worked on constraint acquisition and qualitative constraints reasoning. At OsloMet, he worked on learning automata and Tsetlin Machine.
His expertise involves computer science, optimization, data mining, constraint reasoning, concept learning, qualitative constraints, and learning automata.
He also currently works on implementing AI and ML models on earth observation and various environmental applications.