Prince Vijay, Ph.D. Candidate (IIT Bombay)- Environmental Engineering-Air Pollution
PRINCE VIJAY,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Abstract Number: 788
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AbstractPh.D. candidate (IIT Bombay)- Environmental Engineering-Air Pollution, M Tech (IIT Madras-Newcastle University, United Kingdom)- Civil and Environmental Engineering-Air Pollution
Seeking post-doctoral positions, industry research, experimental research, academia (faculty position/lab head), project managers.
I am currently a Ph.D student Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India. My background is in Civil and Environmental engineering where undergraduate studies was completed at College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala and masters at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM). My doctoral research at IITB, under the supervision of Dr. Harish C Phuleria, focusses on air pollution and its health effects. This is the first cohort study in India focussing on 1500 adult women spread across three metropolitan cities which are facing high levels of air pollution. The aim of this study is to measure the long-term exposure to air pollution and to develop predictive air pollution exposure models. From this work, till date, we have about three international achievements which are ICOH best poster award, ISEE-AWPC membership award and ISIAQ student travel award. During my masters, we developed and evaluated the performance of two Gaussian-based air quality models, namely ADMS and AERMOD models for Chennai city in India and Newcastle City in United Kingdom. This was the first study where two models were compared between two countries having different geographical factors and extremely different meteorological conditions. From this work, I have published three international conference papers, out of which one I have presented and won the Best Paper Award in an International conference jointly organized by IIT Madras, IIT Delhi and Newcastle University held at IIT Delhi. During master’s degree, I was the first PG student who got an opportunity to go outside country and work with research group at Newcastle University. I will be privileged to pursue a post-doctoral degree anywhere across US and fulfil my ambition and continue as a competent researcher. I am available to start work once my Ph D tenure successfully ends around August 2024 anywhere across USA with no geographical preference within the USA.