Leonor Tarrasón
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).
Rona Louise Thompson
Dr. Rona Thompson is a senior scientist at NILU, Kjeller, since 2011.
Dr. Thompson has a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since completing her PhD, Thompson has been a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and at the Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences in Saclay, France.
Dr Thompson’s main research interests are in understanding the sources and sinks of atmospheric pollutants, including greenhouse gases, and the processes driving these. For this, she employs atmospheric transport models and statistical methods.
Dr Thompson has a long experience working with, and developing, numerical models for atmospheric research. She is also the developer of the atmospheric inversion framework, FLEXINVERT.
Dr Thompson is actively involved in Norwegian and European research projects and is currently the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project, EYE-CLIMA. She is also the co-leader of the Global Carbon Project N2O Budget activity.
Kjetil Tørseth
Kjetil Tørseth received his Dr Scient degree at NTNU-Trondheim, and has worked at NILU since 1992.Since 1999 he has served as department head/research director.
His expertize includes measurements and data management and assessment of precipitation chemistry, reactive gases, aerosols and climate forcers, and their associated effects on ecosystems, health and climate.
He is engaged in a wide range of programs addressing assessments of air pollution on regional and global scales, including EMEP (head the EMEP Chemical Coordinating Centre), WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW Country contact of Norway, member to the Scientific Advisory Group on Reactive Gases, responsible for the two GAW World Data Centers on Aerosols (GAW-WDCA) and Reactive Gases (GAW-WDCRG). He is also engaged in several research infrastructure activities like ICOS, ACTRIS and SIOS. He has a broad experience from many international research and capacity building projects.
Dam Thanh Vo
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.