Airborne Particles

Dr Prashant Kumar is currently working as a Reader (a UK rank between Associate Professor and Professor) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) after securing a Cambridge-Nehru Scholarship and Overseas Research Scholarship Award; he holds a master degree in Environmental Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India). Dr Kumar is leading a vibrant research group, focusing on urban air pollution, their measurement using advanced instruments and low-cost sensors, exposure assessment and emission/dispersion modelling. He is currently a principal/co-investigator on a number of international consortium projects worth over GBP6 million and collaborating widely with research groups in the USA, India, China, Australia, Middle-East, Africa and Europe. He is an author of over 110 papers in peerreviewed journals, including most downloaded, most cited and top Almetrics articles that have attracted over 2200 citations with an h-index of 25 (as on 27.10.2016). He is currently serving a number of high importance panels such as the Institution of Civil Engineer's Air Pollution Task Force for London and the United Nations ESCAP expert group on the urban nexus. Dr Kumar is also an editorial board member of eight international journals, including Science of the Total Environment'.

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