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Dr. Hai-Ying Liu, senior scientist at NILU, combines ecological expertise with a passion for sustainable urban development. She holds an MSc in Environmental Protection from Inner Mongolia University, China, and a PhD in Environmental Biology from the University of Oslo, Norway.

Dr. Liu specializes in the monitoring and assessment of nature-based solutions to enhance environmental quality and public health. Her approach is both interdisciplinary and integrative, tackling the complex challenges of climate change, urban development, and public health. She is particularly focused on fostering community engagement and utilizing multi-actor participatory methods to drive environmental behaviour changes and promote health.

Dr. Liu started at NILU with a postdoctoral fellowship between 2007 and 2008, focusing on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on forest biodiversity. During this time, she also played key role in managing and coording several EU projects. Currently, her work is driven by a vision to integrate environmental quality with urban living, aiming to transform cities into resilient and healthy spaces for future generations. As a senior scientist, Dr. Liu actively leads and support coordination of EU projects and proposals. She also contributes her expertise to NILU’s grants office and sever as an evaluator for both EU and national proposals and projects.

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Dam Thanh Vo has worked as a scientist at NILU since 2007. He is focusing on Emission Inventory on regional and local scale; Spatial Data Analysis using ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Pro, ModelBuilder; Visualization of air quality dispersion modelling results – ESRI WebAppBuilder.

He has a Master in Environmental Geology and Geosciences from the University of Oslo, Norway, and is educated as an Geology and Environmental Engineer at the University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Before 2007, Dam Thanh Vo held a position as Head of EQMA Division, Environmental Quality Monitoring and Assessment Division, Ho Chi Minh City Environmental Protection Agency (HEPA), the division manages the whole environmental quality monitoring system of Ho Chi Minh City include instrument maintenance and data management.

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Dr. Nikolaos Evangeliou is a Senior Scientist at NILU’s Atmospheric and Climate Research department (ATMOS). He has a PhD in Chemistry and has been working previously with radiochemical analyses of environmental samples followed by nuclear measurements.

Since 2014, when he joined NILU, he has been working with atmospheric dispersion modelling of conventional and radionuclide substances emitted after nuclear accidents and their impacts on human and non-human biota. He currently works with source emission optimisation of aerosols and gases using Bayesian inversion tools.

Since 2018 he is a board member of the Nordic Society for Aerosol Research .

A more detailed CV of Dr. Evangeliou can be found in https://folk.nilu.no/~nikolaos

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Dr Susana López-Aparicio is a Senior Scientist and Deputy Director of the Urban Environment and Industry department at NILU, where she coordinates research and activities related to air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions.

With over 10 years of experience on emission modelling, her work focuses on developing high spatial and temporal resolution models to support air pollution control, climate mitigation strategies, and urban sustainability. She has led key projects delivering high-resolution gridded emissions for Norway, including the NordicWelfAir, NordSmoke, and EMISYS projects, and advanced emission models for residential wood consumption (METVED model).

Her main goal is to advance scientific knowledge and address environmental challenges faced by public authorities and the private sector. She has managed research projects targeting emissions from diverse sectors, including biofuels, biomass burning, construction machinery, transport hubs (e.g., port and airport), and tourism.

She also serves as reviewer and lead reviewer of national emission inventories submitted under the UNECE Convention of Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), and the National Emission reduction Commitment Directive (NEC Directive).

She has coauthored 44 peer-reviewed publications, and her h-index is 25 (Google Scholar; December 2024).

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Dr. Elise Rundén-Pran is senior scientist and section leader for Health Effects Laboratory and ERT registered toxicologist.

She has extensive experience in toxicology, nanotoxicology, nanosafety, cell cultures, 3D-cellular models, nanogenotoxicology, DNA damage, intracellular cell death signaling, microscopy (confocal, TEM), immunohistochemistry, tissue slice cultures and neurodegeneration.

She was part of the Centre for Excellence in Molecular Neurobiology and DNA repair (UiO) for several years (PhD and Postdoc). She is experienced with human risk assessment and regulatory toxicology, partner leader in EURONANOMED II projects GEMNS and INNOCENT, and NILU project leader for several projects funded by EU and NFR. She has extensive experience in GLP, and is appointed member of the national committee for approval of European registered toxicologists (ERT), The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment, and member of the national expert group for toxicology.

The Health Effects Laboratory is certified for Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) for in vitro human toxicity studies. The laboratory is among the leading laboratories in Europe in nanotoxicology and nanosafety, and main areas of interest are genotoxicity, carcinogenicity in vitro, epigenetics, advanced in vitro models, regulatory aspects of nanosafety,  high-throughput approach to toxicity testing, intelligent testing strategy and adverse outcome pathways.

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Assigned roles and positions

• Lead EVDC operations & development (ESA Atmopspheric Data Validation Centre)
• SoMe contact point and organizer at “Centre for Atmospheric data”

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• EVDC data management coordinator
• Coordinating efforts towards stakeholders EEA, ESA, EUMETSAT, Norsk Romsenter for all activities in the centre including (EBAS and) EVDC
• Senior Project leader; and responsible for the roles that follow

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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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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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