Internships &
research visits

Mr. Pillac-Mage's work focused on upgrading and applying the UrbEm downscaling tool to produce reproducible, sector- and pollutant-specific urban emission inventories at a 100 m resolution from the CAMS regional inventory.

The enhanced workflow was evaluated against independent city inventories and measured pollutant profiles and integrated into an atmospheric chemistry transport model for Athens, Ioannina and Kozani.

The tool was used within the Metronome project to develop and assess urban air-pollution mitigation scenarios.

His diploma thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Athanasios Nenes (EPFL), Dr. Evangelos Gerasopoulos and Dr. Eleni Athanasopoulou (NOA).

Ms. Grammatikopoulou gained hands-on experience in atmospheric chemistry by receiving training at NOA's central instrumentation facilities, comparing air-pollution measurements with city-scale model outputs using Python, NCL and R, and running sensitivity scenarios with EPISODE-CityChem over Athens.

The placement, under the guidance of Dr. Stelios Myriokefalitakis and with the support of the Atmospheric Modelling Team of APCG, offered Christina valuable experience across the full chain from observations to atmospheric modelling, while contributing to her preparation for future doctoral studies.

Ms. Kairaktidi participated in the measurement and analysis of air pollutants and atmospheric aerosol properties using advanced environmental monitoring instrumentation.

The internship provided hands-on experience in atmospheric observations, air quality data analysis, and the characterization of aerosol physical and optical properties, contributing to research on urban air pollution and atmospheric processes.

Dr. Nassima Oucher worked on the numerical simulation of atmospheric pollution over Algeria using advanced atmospheric modelling tools.

The internship promoted knowledge exchange in air quality modelling and strengthened scientific collaboration between the two institutions.

Ms. Kozonaki worked on numerical modelling of aerosol emissions from a point source, including the installation, adaptation and application of the CAMx photochemical model.

This work was followed by her undergraduate thesis, entitled "The impact of a peri-urban fire event on urban air pollution" , supervised by Prof. Maria Kanakidou, with Dr. Eleni Athanasopoulou contributing to the thesis supervision.