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Dr. Wenche Aas holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and specializes in atmospheric composition and the long-range transport of air pollution. She leads the Norwegian monitoring program for long-range transboundary air pollution on behalf of the Norwegian Environment Agency and the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

She coordinates the work under the Chemical Coordinating Centre (CCC) hosted at NILU within the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) under the UNECE.

Dr. Aas is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Total Atmospheric Deposition (SAG-TAD) and Measurement-Model Fusion for Global Total Atmospheric Deposition (MMF-GTAD) within the WMO/GAW framework. She is a member of the Board of Directors for SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System)..

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Dr. Cristina Guerreiro is Research Director for Environmental Impacts and Sustainability at NILU, focusing on research and innovation of sustainable and circular solutions for products and systems across different economic sectors.

Guerreiro has a PhD in Chemistry and a MSc in Environmental Engineering. She has more than 25 years of experience in coordinating international and national research and policy support projects in the following areas: air quality, climate change mitigation, environment & health, circular economy, institutional building and stakeholder involvement, and science communication.

She is the coordinator of the EU research and innovation project Circular Economy Resource Information System (CE-RISE). She has led NILU’s work for the European Environmental Agency (EEA) since 2008 and is the Deputy manager of the European Topic Centre on Human health and the environment (ETC HE). She was Coordinating Lead Author of the UN-Environment’s 6th Global Environment Outlook (GEO6) report, as well as chairperson of the CEN/TC264/WG43.

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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.

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Dr. Claudia Hak is a senior scientist in the Department for Urban Environment and Industry at NILU. She obtained her PhD in physics at the University of Karlsruhe in 2006 with a focus on the measurement of formaldehyde and other compounds involved in photooxidation processes that occur in polluted air around cities. 

Claudia has been working at NILU since 2009. She is a measurement expert and leads specially designed measurement projects with a focus on the effect of emissions from industry, traffic and other pollution sources on ambient air. 

Claudia is also interested in the composition of urban air and the pollution sources in cities and in this context studies advanced particle measurements (based on the composition of the particles) taken in Oslo. She has contributed to the establishment of the Urban Observatory in Oslo, which has a strong focus on particle characterization and the health effects of particles. Another area of work is within the National Reference Laboratory for Air Quality Measurements, where she guides measurement network owners with regard to the choice of reference measurement location. She is also interested in evaluating the differences between the accepted reference and equivalent measurement methods for particulate matter. 

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Lead for the ESA Validation Datra Centre EVDC operations & development
• SoMe contact person for the Centre for Atmospheric data

Responsibility

• EVDC data management coordinator
• Coordinate efforts towards the key stakeholders EEA, ESA, EUMETSAT, Norsk Romsenter for all activities in the centre including EBAS and EVDC
• Project leader responsible for ongoing and future project applications implementation and operation, for entities in particular EU ESA, EEA, CAMS/C3S etc.
• Keep broad aspects and facilitate link to EBAS and ACTRIS In situ unit, and the ACTRIS CLU, ARES, GRES and CREGARS DC units and Topical centres

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• EMEP data curation and EMEP/CCC activities

Responsibility

• Overall responsible for EMEP and GAW-WDCRG data collection, ingestion to data to repository and support
• EMEP QA/QC and annual data reports on ozone, CO, met, PM mass and inorganics
• EMEP intercalibration (technical part)
• LIMS data flow to EBAS
• EBAS maintenance (stations, labs, components, DOI, etc.) and emep/ccc web pages
• EBAS data curation and QA/QC responsible

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Responsibility

• Assistance with necessary administrative tasks and processes in the department
• Archiving
• Follow up of important documentation processes – e.g. signing of contracts, agreements
• Taking care of registration and quality control process / finalization of NILU reports
• Member in the NILU ISO group

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Dr Cathrine Lund Myhre holds the position as Head of NILU’s Centre for Atmospheric data. Furthermore, she leads the ACTRIS Data Centre within ACTRIS ERIC and is involved in most projects within the Centre for Atmospheric Data.

Lund Myhre has a Ph.D. in spectroscopy from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oslo. She has been involved in science and research projects at NILU since 2005. She is an expert in measurements and understanding of atmospheric compositional change, in particular aerosol and greenhouse gases and their sources, concentrations and long term trends.

During the last 10-15 years, Lund Myhre has been working with implementation and use of atmospheric observational networks and infrastructures and access to observational data. This includes implementation of FAIR data and FAIR principles within ACTRIS, and the atmospheric domain in general.

Lund Myhre emphasizes the importance of inter-disciplinary work and competence to address the challenges related to climate and the environment. She finds it both interesting and important to provide information to authorities, stakeholders and the general public.

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Dr. Leonor Tarrasón is Research Director for Environmental Solutions at NILU.

She has 30 years’ experience on air pollution modeling, supporting the implementation of control options and air quality legislation at urban and European level. She has contributed to the development of urban planning tools to secure better air quality and improved quality in Norwegian cities and is presently responsible for policy-user interaction activities under the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS), advocating for the use of Citizen Science to inform on urban air pollution.

Tarrasón co-chairs the Global Emission Initiative (GEIA) and the urban emission activities under the FAIRMODE. She has been a member of the Technical Analysis Group under the DG ENV supporting the development of the Thematic Strategy on Air pollution under the Clean Air for Europe programme and lead of EMEP/MSC-W under the UN/ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). She is currently member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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