TEAM

Dr. J. Andrew Kelly

Andrew Kelly graduated with honours in Economics and English from UCD and Coimbra in 1999. At postgraduate level he went on to complete a M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2003) in the fields of economics and environmental policy, before completing two post-doctoral positions. The first of these focusing on project building, project management and funding proposal development. The second on environmental policy and integrated modelling of climate and air pollution. In 2007 he formed EnvEcon, as a specialised policy and strategy research unit, with Professor Peter Clinch. In this role Andrew has led numerous private and public projects across multiple sectors and thematic issues. This work has included leading the Integrated Modelling Project Ireland which developed and deployed a number of key analytical capacities for integrated decision support with regard to international and Irish environmental policy.

Nationally Andrew has served on a number of expert panels and advisory teams in regard to economic and environmental policy, and Internationally, Andrew remains an active member of the UNECE Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling and has worked with a number of international bodies and agencies such as the World Bank and Sida in regard to economic development, policy analysis, program evaluation and capacity building.

Andrew has a particular interest in the area of policy development, with a skillset incorporating the requisite capacities for analysis, negotiation, communication and regulation. In a more specialised context Andrew offers experience in a number of thematic areas such as climate, air, resource management and economics, and across all economic sectors. Andrew also offers valuable skills in the general areas of management, integrated analysis, strategy, data management and the growing role of ICT in research and policy development.

Dr. Eoin Ó Broin

Eoin Ó Broin is an experienced researcher with specialist expertise in the fields of transport the built environment. Prior to joining EnvEcon Eoin completed a post-doc at CIRED (Centre international de recherche sur l’environnement et le développement) in Paris modelling transport sector demand in an IAM (integrated assessment modelling) framework. The work was carried out as part of an EU FP7 funded project ADVANCE and has resulted in an article in the journal Transportation Research Part D : Transport and Environment and a number of other co-authored papers. Prior to CIRED he completed his PhD at the Dept. of Energy and Environment at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. The research there involved modelling residential sector energy demand in the EU building stock and resulted in four articles in the journals, Energy (2), Applied Energy and Energy Efficiency. The research methods used have involved both top-down (econometric) and bottom up (simulation) approaches to Energy System Modelling and scenarios to 2050 and 2100.

Dr Ó Broin holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology from Chalmers and a B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Limerick. He has undertaken internships at the UN ECE Committee on Housing and Land Management and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva, and been a member of the board of management of Gothenburg City Water Utility (Göteborg kretslopp och vatten). Eoin will lead and deliver the overall project.

Dr. Gabriela Sousa Santos

Gabriela Sousa Santos has a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Hamburg and has extensive experience in numerical modelling, working with chemistry transport models and global climate models for several years. In the period 2009 – 2013 she worked at ETH Zurich in Switzerland where she worked on issues related to aerosols and climate. In February 2014 she was employed as a scientist at NILU and is now included in the model group of the Department for Urban Environment and Industry.

Dr. Cristina Guerreiro

Cristina Guerreiro has over 20 years of experience in air quality research and management; including air quality modelling, emission inventories, integrated air quality assessment and management, and policy support. She leads NILU’s work for the European Topic Centre for Air pollution and Climate change Mitigation (ETC/ACM) since 2007 and is the lead author of the European Environmental Agency’s annual reports “Air Quality in Europe” since 2011. Cristina Guerreiro is currently the chair of the CEN working group CEN/TC 264/WG 43 to define a European standard on Model Quality Objectives for air quality models and co-chair of the Forum for Air Quality Modelling in Europe (FAIRMODE) Working Group 1 on Assessment. She is the principal contact point of the National Reference Centre for Air Quality in Norway to the European Environment Information and Observation Network – EIONET, and member of the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment Reference Group for European Environmental Issues.

Sverre Solberg

Sverre Solberg holds an MSc in meteorology (atmospheric chemistry) from University of Oslo. He is a senior scientist at NILU with approximately 25 years’ experience in numerical modelling and data analyses on topics related to surface ozone, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and atmospheric processes. He has been working with atmospheric chemical process studies, assessments for the oil industry, air quality forecast systems for Chinese provinces and long-term trend studies of European ozone levels. He has been engaged in research activities related to ozone and VOCs within UNECE’s EMEP program for more than 20 years through NILU’s role as the Chemical Coordinating Centre of EMEP.

Dr. Henrik Grythe

Henrik Grythe has his PhD in atmospheric physics from Stockholm University, and before that a Msc. in Meteorology from University of Oslo. He has been employed at NILU since 2017. His previous work has primarily been on quantifying emission sources, dispersion and removal of both natural and anthropogenic aerosol particles. His work includes model development of the Lagrangian dispersion model FLEXPART with regards to aerosol processes. During his Phd within the NordForsk project CRAICC (https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/craicc/), he had the marine and Arctic environment as a focal area. At NILU he works primarily on emission modelling, developing new methods for quantifying emissions of both climate and air pollution relevant species on a high temporal and spatial resolution.