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Tuan-Vu Cao received the PhD degree in electronics engineering from the University of Oslo in 2011 with the topic of micro-power sensor interface in nanometer CMOS technology.  During his PhD, he stayed at ISN Lab at UC San Diego in a year to implement a frequency adaptive BFSK MICS band (402-405 MHz) transmitter Chip for biomedical application. He has a long experience in both Academia and Industry.

From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) to design a Delta-Sigma Analog to Digital converter at 65nm CMOS technology.

From 2012-2018, he worked in Industry as Senior Engineer at WINS Instrumentation AS and Prediktor AS for various projects, such as monitoring nutrient food content, and wireless DST real time instrumentation. Since 2018, he has come back Academia by joining NILU where he is currently a Senior Scientist.

Tuan-Vu Cao has been running several national and EU projects at NILU:

- Horizon Europe project MISO - Autonomous Multi-Format In-Situ Observation Platform for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane Monitoring in Permafrost & Wetlands; (2023-2026) (The PI and project coordinator)

- EEA Grant project—HAPADS - a novel air mobile monitoring system enables end-users to make information-driven decisions to mitigate air pollution exposure; (2020-2023) (Co-PI and WP leader)

- EEA Grant project SmartFood project “Engaging citizens in food diversity in cities”; (2021-2024) (Co-PI and WP leader)

- NFR IKTPLUSS project: AirQMan: Low Latency Air Quality Management (2021-2025) (WP leader)

- NFR 273394- ‘‘Leopard-Wearable particle detector enabling safer working environments’’ (2018–2020) (Key Designer and Technical Coordinator)

His research interests include enabling technologies (advanced sensors, edge intelligence, IoT, etc...) and other autonomous systems for environmental monitoring and management.

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Robert André Logna is a senior system developer in the Digital Technologies department.

He is a specialist in client-server technology. Robert is motivated by developing robust, maintainable and scalable information systems.

His areas of interest are mainly distributed processing systems/frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark/HBase/YARN) and development/implementation of machine learning models in such systems.

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Dr. Pawel Rostkowski is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects at NILU (Norway). He specializes in environmental analytical chemistry, focusing on identifying and characterizing emerging contaminants, particularly through non-target and suspect screening methods using high-resolution mass spectrometry.

Throughout his career, Rostkowski has developed innovative methods for detecting organic contaminants across various environmental matrices, products, and food contact materials.

In addition to his research, he plays an active role in various international scientific and regulatory organizations. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the NORMAN Association, which addresses emerging pollutants in Europe, and represents Norway in the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET) Chemicals Expert Group.

He is also involved in BP4NTA (Benchmarking and Prioritization of Non-Target Analysis), an initiative focused on advancing non-target analytical techniques and establishing best practices for prioritizing unknown environmental contaminants. Furthermore, Rostkowski contributes as an expert in the ISO technical committee ISO/TC 147/SC 2/WG 85, dedicated to developing standards for non-target screening and enhancing methods for environmental monitoring and chemical risk assessment.

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Nina Dahl is a laboratory coordinator and purchasing manager at the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects, at the Inorganic Section. She has worked at Nilu since 1991 in the same department.

Nina Dahl is responsible for:

• Registration of incoming samples.
• Purchasing and accounting.
• Completion of passive samplers.
• Safety delegate tasks.

Dahl has been involved in many of the tasks at Inorganic, and now works mostly administratively.

She finds motivation in the great collegial environment and her inspiring tasks.

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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.

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Dr. Pernilla Bohlin Nizzetto is Research Director and Head of NILU's Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects.

She holds a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Occupational and Environmental Medicine from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in collaboration with Lancaster University in the UK. She also has a 2-year post-doc from RECETOX at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.

Since 2022, Nizzetto coordinates the Horizon Europe project INQUIRE (Identification of chemical and biological determinants, their sources, and strategies to promote healthier homes in Europe), which is part of the EU's IDEAL Cluster. In INQUIRE, the goal is to improve air quality and reduce the occurrence and exposure to harmful substances in indoor environments.

During her 15 years as a researcher in environmental chemistry, Nizzetto has focused on environmental chemistry issues indoors and outdoors with a desire to protect people, the environment and ecosystems.

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