Miha Markelj
Miha Markelj has been working as a research assistant at NILU since 2022, focusing on emissions of air pollutants into ambient air from different perspectives. He works with emission and dispersion models, develops new data collection processes and works on enhancing resolution of models. His work often involves acquiring, processing and interpreting unstructured data. Among others, he contributes to projects for municipalities and industry, as well as to data reporting projects for EEA.
Miha earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Daniel Dean Moran
Daniel Moran is an environmental economist whose work quantifies the biophysical resources used by the economy. He is an active contributor to global multi-region input-output models (MRIOs) which provide digital twins of the world economy and are used to generate Scope 3 carbon footprint results. Dr. Moran also works with Scope 1 GHG emissions models. His work using data science to develop high-resolution environmental footprints has been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, and The Economist.
Before starting his academic career Dr. Moran worked on Wall Street pricing ESG risk at MSCI and assisted Nobel laureate Paul Romer writing a Principles of Economics textbook.
Awards:
Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. Among all scientists and social scientists globally, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. Stanford/Elsevier/Scopus highly cited researcher during 2021, 2020, 2019 (Top 1.5% percentile in Environmental Sciences; top 3% in Economics)
Education
- 2013 - PhD, School of Physics, The University of Sydney
- 2007 - MS, Environmental Studies and Sustainability, Lund University
- 2001 - BA, Philosophy, Whitman College
Key words:
data science; industrial ecology; environmental economics; carbon footprinting; biodiversity footprints; embodied water; scope 3; consumption-based accounting; LCA; input-output; material flow analysis; high performance computing
Mahsa Motevallian
Mahsa Motevallian is a Scientific Project Coordinator at NILU with over seven years of experience in managing international and national research and innovation projects. At NILU, Mahsa focuses on sustainability and digitalization, circular economy, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environment and health, and stakeholder engagement. She is experienced in project management, communication, and dissemination, contributing to the success of NILU’s research initiatives.
She holds a Master’s degree in International Environmental Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, providing her with a strong foundation to address environmental and sustainability challenges.
Mahsa manages the EU-funded projects CE-RISE and healthRiskADAPT and serves as a work package leader and co-leader in projects CE-RISE, healthRiskADAPT, MISO, and REWARD. She also contributes to NILU’s Grants Office, where she assists project leaders with proposal development and provides advice on securing large grants.
Lise Eder Murberg
Roles
- Scientist
- Project leader
- Data manager
- Data engineer
- Dystem developer
- User contact
- User training
Responsibility
- VRE, data curation (filter absorption photometer)
- Training
- Data visualization
- System development (mostly front-end)
- Project management of ATMO-ACCESS and IRISCC
Helene Muri
Helene Muri is a Senior Scientist at NILU, and Adjunct Senior Researcher at NTNU's Department of Energy and Process Engineering.
Muri works in climate and environmental research, with a particular focus on carbon dioxide removal, solar radiation modification (geoengineering), and quantification of emissions and emission reductions in e.g. the transport sector. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to the IPCC's sixth assessment report in Working Groups 1 and 3. She chairs the European Marine Board Working Group on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and has contributed to updates to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Muri is also an active research communicator with over 250 media contributions, including interviews with CNN, BBC and NRK, as well as op-eds in Aftenposten and Dagens Næringsliv.
She graduated from The University of Reading with a BSc (Hons) in Meteorology and earned a DPhil (PhD) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics from The University of Oxford, UK, in 2009.
Cathrine Lund Myhre
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.