About Us – IGPCARE

The IGP-CARE brings together a highly competent team of multidisciplinary scientists and academicians from many premier academic institutions of world.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS:

Dr. Ravikant P. Pathak

Dr. Ravikant Pathak is an associate professor, senior lecturer and atmospheric scientist in the department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay, India (Batch’99). He pursued his Bachelors and Masters in Technology, in chemical engineering from IIT Mumbai, India. Thereafter, he did his PhD from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and subsequently Post Doc from Carnegie Mellon University in USA. He has contributed, as a lead author, in many research articles in peer reviewed international journals of atmospheric pollution and climate research. Major research areas include formation and transformation of Black and Brown Carbon in the atmosphere; aerosol acidity and nitrate chemistry, multiphase atmospheric chemistry; heterogeneous chemistry. The research is motivated by the effects of atmospheric pollution on climate, environment and human health. He has 18+ years of research experience in laboratory aerosol experiments, atmospheric pollution field campaigns, process modeling of aerosol dynamics and chemical composition, and systhesis of aerosol parameterizations for climate and air quality models. He is founding head of the India Gangetic Plain – Centre for Air Research and Education (IGP-CARE) in rural India and aspires it take it to greater heights of research and educational excellence.

Prof. Mattias Hallquist

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Prof. Mattias Hallquist is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a co-investigator and co-founder of IGP-CARE in rural India. His research objectives include formation and transformation of atmospheric particles and their properties from a molecular perspective. The focus in prof. hallquist’s lab experiments is studies of aerosol formation from oxidation of organic compounds, i.e. secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Regarding field measurement the focus is on the urban aerosol where e.g. traffic emission of particles is an important part with a recent focus on ship emissions. Prof. Hallquist is also the principal investigator of the photochemical smog project on air pollution in China. To support a molecular understanding of important processes a primary tool is to apply high resolution mass spectrometers. The main experimental research are done in connection to the G-FROST facility at his lab at he University of Gothenburg, Sweden using High-Resolution-Time-of-Flight-Chemical-Ionization-Mass-Spectrometery (HT-T-o-F-CIMS). His air quality studies are currently focused on China, India and Kenya. Findings from experiments and field observations provide important input to chemical modelling that are essential as a scientific base for policy making regarding climate and air pollution.

COLLABORATORS:

Carnegie Mellon U – Spyros N. Pandis & Neil Donahue
MIT – Jesse Kroll
Penn State U – Bill Brune
Carolina State U – Andrew Greishop
U Texas at Austin – Joshua Apte
EPFL Switzerland – Satoshi Takahama
HKUST – Jian Z. Yu
CityU HK – Chak K. Chan
HK PolyU – Tao wang
Peking U – Min Hu
Shandong U – Xue Likun,
Nanjing U – Aijun Ding
U Patras – Spyros N. Pandis
Lund U– Joakim Pagel, Birgitta Svensson
IIT Delhi – Gazala habib
IIT Kanpur – Tarun Gupta
IIT BHU varanasi – M. & S. B. Agrawals
Colleges of University of Bundelkhand – Arvind Singh
College of Amadnagar – Sachin Ralegaonkar
SEED Foundation – Shalabh Raj
Bharat Uday Mission – Shiv Vijay Singh
Syracuse U – Cliff Davidson