SPECIAL SESSION #24
Air quality measurements and monitoring of its effects on human health
ORGANIZED BY
Andrea Aliverti
Andrea Aliverti
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alessandra Angelucci
Alessandra Angelucci
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
ABSTRACT
Commercially available sensors do not always guarantee a high quality of measurement of environmental parameters and pollutants concentrations. Furthermore, the spatiotemporal variability of air quality is very high and depends on a multitude of factors. For this reason, novel technologies to perform distributed air quality measurements are useful to evaluate actual conditions, especially in urban and industrial areas. A detailed knowledge of what people breath, both indoors and outdoors, permits to monitor the impact of air quality on human health on an epidemiological and individual level. The aim of this special session is to present innovative methods for air quality monitoring, with a focus on instrumentation, spatiotemporal resolution, and big data processing.
MAIN TOPICS
This special session will host contributions on:
- Design of new devices to assess air quality
- Collective and invidual impacts of air quality on health
- Wearable and portable devices to monitor air quality
- Methods to analyze environmental data, including but not limited to artificial intelligence
- Application scenarios for environmental monitoring
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Andrea Aliverti received the M.Sc. Degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. Degree in Bioengineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is full professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. He is responsible of Lares (Respiratory Analysis Lab) at the Biomedical Technology Laboratory (TBMLab). His actual main research interests include bioengineering of the respiratory system, physiological measurements, biomedical instrumentation and sensors, wearable technology and functional lung imaging.
Alessandra Angelucci received the M.Sc. Degree in Biomedical Engineering and the Ph.D. Degree in Bioengineering on from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. She is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her main research interests are wearable technology, telemedicine, physiological and environmental measurements for health and wellbeing.
