American Association for Aerosol Research - Abstract Submission

AAAR 37th Annual Conference
October 14 - October 18, 2019
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon, USA

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Amirhosein Mousavi, 4th-Year PhD Candidate, Post Doc/Industry Research Position

AMIRHOSEIN MOUSAVI, University of Southern California

     Abstract Number: 912
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Abstract
Bio:
Amir has a BSc in Chemical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is currently a 4th year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California working with Prof. Constantinos Sioutas where he has conducted series (11 peer-reviewed Journal publications) of long term particulate matter (PM), PM-bond species and health marker source apportionment studies in different areas of the world to understand the spatiotemporal variation of PM relatable to aerosol chemistry and crucial for policymakers and forecasting.

Interest topics:
Atmospheric Science, Remote sensing in air quality, Air pollution exposure, PM associated Health effects.

Skills:
- Data handling:
hands-on experience with different programming languages (i.e., R and python), source apportionment models (i.e.,  PMF, UNIMAX, CMB) and statistical analysis tools (SPSS).

- Remote sensing:
NASA health and air quality remote sensing program certificate and satellite data processing, GIS visualization for air quality data.

- Experiment design:

long-term air pollution measurement field campaigns, Set up and operate a range of air quality instrumentation— from cascade impactors to SMPS and OPS.

- In-vivo and in-vitro air pollution exposure:
Several real-time mice exposure campaigns as well as in vitro sample collection in collaboration with health perspective experts.

Job interest:
Postdoc/industry/Consulting research positions.

Geographical preference:
California is a plus!

Preferred start date:
May 2020

Contact:
amousavi@usc.edu