Dr. Ole Hertel
Deputy Head of Department & Professor
Aarhus University,
Denmark
Biography
Dr. Ole Hertel expertise is within assessment of human exposure to air pollution and assessment of atmospheric nutrient loadings on nature applying integrated monitoring assessment (combined use of measurements and model calculations); this was the topic of his higher doctoral degree. He was working with personal exposure monitoring (PEM) and he was deeply involved in testing and applying low-cost sensors and passive samplers for PEM. He was a modeler by training and had played a key role in the development of the Operational Street Pollution Model (OSPM); a model that is now applied in more than 20 countries around the world. He took part in the development of the Eulerian Backward Ierative (EBI) method for solving chemistry in chemistry-transport models (CTMs) used by the US-EPA as their standard method. In his PhD project he had developed a Lagrangian chemistry-transport model for studying atmospheric degradation of biogenic Sulphur compounds in the atmosphere. Parts of this model were later used for developing a model for atmospheric deposition to nature (ACDEP – atmospheric chemistry and deposition model) that for 10 years was applied for mapping Nitrogen and Sulphur deposition to Danish nature.
Research Interest
Air Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Urban Ecology, Atmospheric Processes, Eutrophication of Nature, Human Exposure to Air Pollution, Health Effects of Air Pollution and Communication.