Douglas W. Dockery, M.S., Sc.D.
Douglas Dockery is Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his Doctorate from Harvard in environmental health. Before that he studied meteorology at MIT and physics at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Dockery has published more than one hundred fifty scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature, plus more than a score of reviews and book chapters. For the last thirty years he has been studying the health effects of outdoor and indoor air pollution. He has written the most frequently cited papers on the health effects of air pollution, and his research has been the basis for the air pollution standards in the United States and around the world.
Dr. Dockery and his colleagues have studied the health effects of air pollution exposures in populations who have been followed for up to twenty-five years. That research has increasingly pointed to combustion-related particles as being causally linked to increased morbidity and mortality even at the relatively low concentrations observed in developed countries today. Dr. Dockery and his colleagues have reported that episodes of particulate air pollution are consistently associated with increased daily mortality, increased hospital admissions and emergency room visits, exacerbation of asthma, increased respiratory symptoms and lower lung function. Long-term follow-up studies have shown particulate air pollution is associated with shortened life expectancy in adults and increased chronic respiratory illness and lower lung function in children. This research has led to the current debate on the role of particulate air pollution in producing adverse effect effects and to the re-evaluation of air quality standards both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Dockery's current research is attempting to more specifically identify the chemical and physical characteristics of those particles responsible for the observed adverse health effects. Current studies also are attempting to understand the pathways of acute cardiovascular events associated with air pollution exposure and to link these epidemiologic finding with toxicologic studies of particle effects. He also is assessing the health benefits of air pollution controls.
In addition, the methods developed to assess air pollution health effects epidemiologically are being applied to other environmental hazards including contamination of water supplies.
Contact:
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
665 Huntington Avenue, Building 1, Rm 1301
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 432-1270
Fax: (617) 432-6913
Email: kstudeba@hsph.harvard.edu
Dr. Wolfgang Hafner
Education: Karl-Franzens-University Graz from1979 to 1985.
Degree(s) or Diploma: Dr. Phil., Main subject: Biology, Minor subject: Chemistry.
Graz University of Technology from 1988 1993.
Degree(s) or Diploma: Academically Trained Engineer for Environment.
Present position:
Head of the Department of Environmental Protection in the City of Klagenfurt,
17 employees, competent for monitoring and inspection of industrial plants and SME, nature protection, monitoring of air and water, projects in the field of sustainable development, climate protection and ambient air quality,
project manager of the LIFE-ENVIRONMENT Projects KAPA GS (2004-2007), SPAS (2006-2009) and CMA+ (2009-2012).
Key qualifications:
project management, sustainable development, environmental chemistry, ambient air quality
Publications on the subject of fine dust:
OETTL D. u. HAFNER W. (2006): Kurzbericht über den Einsatz von CMA im Winterdienst in Klagenfurt, 29/06/2006, Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Terhmodynamics Graz University of Technology in cooperation with the City of Klagenfurt, Dept. of Environmental Protection.
KAPA GS - Layman-Report
Package of measures adopted by the City of Klagenfurt to reduce PM10 and NO2
Contact:
Department of Environmental of Protection of the City of Klagenfurt
Bahnhofstr. 35
9020 Klagenfurt
AUSTRIA
E-Mail:wolfgang.hafner@klagenfurt.at
Dragomira Raeva
Dragomira Raeva joined the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) as the EU policy officer for Clean Air, Nanotechnology and Noise in September 2007. The EEB is a federation of over 150 environmental citizens’ organisations based in most EU member states, candidate and neighboring countries.
Prior to joining the EEB, Dragomira has worked with the Lund Municipality in Sweden, where she helped the local mobility management team in developing and implementing environmentally friendly transportation services.
Dragomira’s academic training is in environmental science and policy. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Resource Management from the Brandenburg Technical University in Germany. In 2007 she completed a master’s degree in Environmental Science, Policy and Management in a joint programme between the Central European University (CEU) in Hungary and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) in Sweden. Her thesis is in the field of sustainable urban transport and development and running of mobility management practices in European cities.
o.Prof. Dr. Manfred Neuberger
M.D. 1971, certified internist 1977, public health 1980, occupational medicine 1997. Deputy director of Vienna Municipal Institute of Environmental Medicine 1989-99. Full professor at Medical University of Vienna since 1999. Consultant WHO (IARC, IPCS, ECEH), UNDP, ILO, EU (ENSP, etc.). >400 publications, mainly on health effects of air pollution, cancer epidemiology and lung disease:
http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/manfred.neuberger/daten/LIST.htm
Contact:
Medizinische Universität Wien
Institut für Umwelthygiene
Felbigergasse 3
A-1140 Wien
E-Mail: manfred.neuberger@meduniwien.ac.at
Anja Baum
Studies of Physical Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at Berlin University of Technology, the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and at Cologne University.
1999 advanced education in Private Environmental Management, followed by a three-year employment at a doctor’s surgery and laboratory as quality and environment manager and occupational safety engineer.
Since 2003 at the Department of Environmental Protection of the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt.) responsible for “air quality. Deputy head of the department.
Head of Working Group 2.10.2 “Air Pollution along Roads” of the German Road and Transportation Research Association/ FGSV.
Publications, in particular on air pollutants along high-traffic transport routes.
Contact:
Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen
Brüderstraße 53, 51427 Bergisch Gladbach
E-Mail: baum@bast.de
Jürg Minger, lawyer, born 1963:
Law studies at the University of Berne. 1991 completion of studies and acquisition of the lawyer’s license.
Seven-year service in the Legal Assistance Department (a staff position of the Swiss government), special expert on regulation and legislative drafting.
Since 1999 official in the Federal Office for the Environment BAFU (a section of the Swiss Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications UVEK), first as chief-of-staff in air quality control and electro-smog; since 2006 head of the Section Transport and Traffic. In this function he has been involved in elaborating action plans to combat particulate emission.
Contact:
Bundesamt für Umwelt
Abteilung Luftreinhaltung und NIS
3003 Bern
Switzerland
E-mail: juerg.minger@bafu.admin.ch
Dipl.Met. Martin Lutz
Martin Lutz has a university degree in meteorology and air chemistry. More than 2 decades ago he started dealing with winter smog alarm management in Berlin. During a four year detachment to the EU Commission he was drafting an European ozone strategy and a new ozone Directive. Back in Berlin he led investigations in the sources of PM10 pollution and an impact analysis of control measures on PM10 and NO2 pollution. He was developing Berlin’s air quality strategy. Mr. Lutz is now head of the sector on air pollution control in the Senate Department for Environment, where he is in charge of implementing the low emission zone and other pollution control measures.
Contact:
Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz
Brückenstr. 6
D-10179 Berlin
E-Mail: Martin.Lutz@senguv.berlin.de
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Christer Johansson
Christer Johansson is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University. He defended his Ph.D. in Chemical Meteorology at Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology in 1988 and has since then held a senior research position at the university. He is also employed at the Environment and Health Administration (EHA) of the City of Stockholm. His research interests are mainly related to urban air quality focusing on understanding the links between the emissions of urban aerosols and the impact on air quality, population exposure and health. As an Environmental Officer at EHA he has been responsible for analyzing the impact on air quality and health of several urban planning projects including environmental zones and congestion charging. He is author/co-author more than 130 publications/reports.
Contact
Stockholm University
Department of Applied Environmental Science,
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
christer.johansson@itm.su.se
http://www.itm.su.se/staff/person.php?id=54
Dr. Jürgen Schneider
Dr Jürgen Schneider is the Director of the Programme ‚Economy and Impact‘ at the Austrian Environment Agency. Dr Schneider’s programme includes six departments at the Environment Agency, which are responsible for areas such as air pollution control, emission inventories, climate change, energy, waste management and waste treatment, traffic, industrial pollution and households.
Dr Schneider studied chemistry at the University of Vienna, where he also obtained his PhD.
After finalizing his PhD, Dr Schneider worked at the University of Vienna as a researcher and joined the Environment Agency subsequently in 1994, where he worked in the Department for Air quality control. Dr Schneider has more than 50 publications in this field and was member of various national and international bodies dealing with air quality inter alia as chair of the EMEP Steering Body and the Task Force on Measurement and Modeling, both under the UN ECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution and the European Commission’s Working Group on Implementation.
From 2002 to 2004, Dr Schneider worked as project manager for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Bonn at the Centre for Environment and Health, being responsible for the implementation of the project ‘Systematic Review of Health Aspects of Air Pollution’.
2004, Dr. Schneider became head of the Department of Air quality Control. In January 2007, he was appointed as Director of the Programme ‘Economy and Impact’.
Contact:
Jürgen Schneider, Mag. Dr.
Programmleiter/Programme Director
Wirtschaft & Wirkung
Economy & Impact
T: +43-(0)1-313 04/5863
M: +43-664-621 03 18
F: +43-(0)1-313 04/5800
juergen.schneider@umweltbundesamt.at
Umweltbundesamt GmbH
Spittelauer Lände 5
1090 Wien
Österreich/Austria
http://www.umweltbundesamt.at
Prof. Dr. Peter Bruckmann:
Head of division “Air Quality, Noise, Vibrations, Radioactivity” at the State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of Northrhine-Westphalia since 1994.
PhD in Chemistry, teaching at the University of Bochum.
Representative of the German States in several EC working groups and comitees, inter alia the CAFE and Air Quality steering groups.
About 150 publications.
Andrej Kobe
Andrej Kobe is the policy officer in the Clean Air and Transport Unit at DG Environment, European Commission, leading a team responsible for the development and implementation of the EU Directives on ambient air quality.
Andrej Kobe studied physics at the University of Ljubljana where he also received his MSc. His work on laser applications in Ljubljana and at Johns HopkinsUniversity in the United States brought him in contact with environmental sensing. In period 99-03 he was in charge of setting up the Slovene national reference laboratory for air quality and had participated in the overhaul of the national air quality monitoring network at the Environment Agency of the Republic of Slovenia.
Since 2004, Andrej Kobe is working for the European Commission. He had been a member of Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) secretariat that had in 2005 prepared the Thematic Strategy on Air pollution and the new proposal for ambient air quality directive, and has followed the new Directive through all steps of the EU legislative process. The main task of Andrej Kobe and his team is currently the implementation of the new directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe, in particular the enforcement and the time extension process, development of new guidance and the new Implementing Provisions for reporting.
Dipl.-Ing. Franz-Wilhelm Iven
Franz-W. Iven is State Director for Trade and Industry and holds currently a post at the District Government of Cologne as Head of the Department of Environmental Protection. After studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Aachen, he worked in the field of “reactor safety” for three years. This included, inter alia, his deployment to the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago where he participated in a probabilistic risk study for a fast breeder.
Following his employment with the NRW Ministry of Environment, he continued his career as head of the Trade Control Authority of Mönchengladbach. Since 1994 he has been head of department in the District Government of Cologne where his responsibilities include the handling of licensing procedures for power plants, waste incinerators, biomass and biogas plants which are subject to an environmental assessment test as well as all licensing procedures under the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) in the chemical industry park of Leverkusen (formerly Bayer Leverkusen). Moreover, he is responsible for the elaboration of air pollution control plans in the government district of Cologne where he has been instrumental in preparing the air pollution control plan for Cologne, the action plan for the open-cast mining company Tagebau Hambach as well as in drawing up the air pollution control plan and action plan for the city of Aachen.
In addition, he continues to be active as Germany’s LAI (State Committee for Immission Control) representative in Seville for the CWW BREF (best available technology for central exhaust air and waste-water treatment plants in the chemical industry) revision process. Moreover, he is involved, as a short-term expert, in a number of EU twinning projects in several EU member countries and well as in Egypt, where he supports the environmental authorities in the implementation and application of European environmental law.
Apart from these activities, Franz-Wilhelm Iven has been committed to education and training, designing, coordinating and running seminars and workshops on environmental and energy law since 1997. He is also co-author of the standard commentary BImSchG by Dr. Feldhaus on the 13th Federal Immission Control Ordinance Regulating Large Combustion Plants.
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DI Dr. Helmut Hadolt
Government of Carinthia
Head of Unit Environmental Protection along Traffic Routes
Helmut Hadolt studied electrical engineering, specialising on traffic engineering and means of transport.
He obtained his doctorate with a thesis on traffic safety.
He joined Siemens SGP VT as project manager for the construction of rail vehicles (e.g responsible for the mechanical part of the “V wagons” of the Vienna Underground).
Since 2002 he has been serving as a civil servant in the Carinthian government where he is responsible, inter alia, for noise-protection along roads and rail routes (e.g. design of noise-protection measures, implementation of the EU Directive on Environmental Noise).
He also delivers expert opinions on railroads.
Contact:
Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung
Abt. 7 - Wirtschaftsrecht und Infrastruktur
Mießtaler Straße 1-3
A-9021 Klagenfurt
E-mail: Helmut.Hadolt@ktn.gv.at
DI. Dr. Werner Prutsch
Diploma (DI) in process engineering from Graz University of Technology and doctoral degree (Dr.) in chemistry from Innsbruck University.
Five-year employment with a machine and plant construction company, responsible, inter alia, for development and project scheduling.
Since 1990 head of the Unit for Air Quality Control and Chemistry in the Environmental Protection Office of the City of Graz, collaboration in numerous expert teams, teaching assignments and guest lectures in the fields environment and process engineering (e.g. FH/University of Applied Sciences Pinkafeld, WIFI Stmk./Institute for Economic Promotion Styria, Chemieingenieurschule/School of Chemical Engineering Graz; guest lectures at Graz University of Technology and Graz Karl-Franzens University).
Since 2008 head of the Environmental Protection Office of the City of Graz.
Contact:
Umweltamt Graz
Kaiserfeldgasse 1 / IV
A - 8010 Graz
Tel.: ++43 (0) 316 / 872 / 4300
Fax: ++43 (0) 316 / 872 / 4309
E-mail: werner.prutsch@stadt.graz.at
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Dr. Mag. Luigi Minach
Chemistry studies (PhD) at the University of Innsbruck. 1989 director of the laboratory of physical chemistry in the department of Environmental Protection Agency of South Tyrol in Bolzano, with the order to build up a radioactivity measuring laboratory. In 1992, in addition, control of the electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields. In 1997 management of the air quality monitoring net of South Tyrol. Since 2005 general director of the Environmental Protection Agency of South Tyrol in Bolzano.
In this function he coordinates the elaboration of the countermeasures to reduce the particulate matter and the general improvement of the air quality in South Tyrol.
Contact:
Landesagentur für Umwelt – Amba Alagi Str. 5,
39100 Bozen
Italien
E-mail: luigi.minach@provinz.bz.it
Johannes Rodler, Dipl.-Ing. Dr. tech.
Johannes Rodler is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics, Graz University of Technology. He studied Mechanical Engineering and Economics with main emphasis on traffic engineering and is working in the division “Traffic and Environment”.
In the field of tunnel construction Dr. Rodler is responsible for the design of the ventilation system and he also controls the function of the implemented measurement device as well as the functionality of the fire program.
Besides other subjects Dr. Rodler’s research has focused on the following:
• Investigation of a catalytic converter and a biological cleaning method for gaseous pollutants in tunnel air.
• Measurements and investigation on mechanical filters for fine dust and electrostatic precipitators.
• Investigation of air quality in urban areas with different measurement methods (conventional as well as remote sensing techniques).
• Validation of emission models with on road measurements and measurements performed in different street tunnels in Europe.
During the last 14 years Dr. Rodler has published a number of scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature as well as articles in the proceedings of several conferences.
Contact:
Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics
Graz University of Technology
Inffeldgasse 21A
A-8010 Graz, Austria
Tel: (316) 873-7585
Fax: (316) 873-7580
Email: rodler@vkmb.tugraz.at
DI Gerfried Cebrat
Gerfried Cebrat has been working for FGM-AMOR since the end of 1998. His responsibilities include project acquisition and project management in the fields of transport technologies (rolling stock, vehicles), alternative propulsion techniques and related technological fields like logistics and telematics as well as developing policies targeting sustainable and clean transport, for example implementing zero emission traffic zones.
2002-2005 he was lecturer at the University for Applied Sciences in Graz, measuring techniques and mechanical engineering.
His focus is on holistic innovation in transport technologies & alternative propulsion techniques where he has published several papers, the latest one at EVS24 on "Methods to Determine Robust Innovation Paths for Electric Vehicle Technology".
He led the
• European EACI funded SUGRE project - Promoting Sustainable Green Fleets in Europe
and the national projects
• Hyperbike – hybrid pedal- assisted bicycles (proxy project leader) commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of trafficTransport, innovation and Technology
• Innovative Mobility Tools comprising ultra-light vehicles – commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Iinnovation and Ttechnology
He currently leads two projects, the
• European EACI sponsored RECODRIVE project on rewarding and recognition schemes for energy conserving staff in fleets and
• PiA Paradigm Chance in Propulsion Technology, a concept initiative funded by the FFG in the A3PLUS programme initiated by the Austrian Ministry of Transport Innovation and Technology and co-chairs the European FP7- funded project U-STIR focusing on user- driven radical innovation in surface transport.
Contact:
Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität-Austrian Mobility Research
FGM-AMOR Gemeinnützige GesmbH
Schönaugasse 8a
A - 8010 Graz
Tel. +43 (0) 316 810451-35
Fax: +43 (0) 316 810451-75
E-mail: gcebrat@fgm.at
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Griša Močnik, PhD
Griša Močnik, PhD, is the director and chief scientific officer of Aerosol d.o.o. He has been a project leader and scientific advisor to numerous industrial projects in the last six years in the field of aerosol instrumentation, and laser and optical medical devices. He was the quality management representative and has designed quality management systems for medical device manufacturers. He was involved in establishing the “Photonics 21” technological platform both in the EU and in Slovenia and is currently the leader of the workgroup “Life sciences and health”. He obtained his PhD at the University of Ljubljana while working at Institute “Jozef Stefan” (Slovenia), Wageningen University (the Netherlands), ONERA (France), Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) and Bochum University (Germany). He is the principal investigator for several past and ongoing projects in the field of aerosol science.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Thomas Brunner
Thomas Brunner has studied Chemical Engineering at the TU Graz. Since 1995 he has been workings for the research group “Energetic Biomass Utilisation” at the Institute for Process and Particle Engineering, TU Graz. Since 2003 he has been area manager at the BIOENERGY 2020+ Competence Centre responsible for the area ”Biomass combustion – medium-and large-scale systems”. His main working fields are biomass combustion technologies, fine particulate matter formation during biomass combustion as well as ash- related problems in biomass combustion systems.Phone: ++43/316/481300 13
Fax: ++43/316/481300 4
e-mail: thomas.brunner@tugraz.at
Ulrich Uhrner
Ulrich Uhrner works as a senior scientist at the Traffic & Environment Section at the Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics at Graz University of Technology. Research fields are air quality modelling and secondary aerosols.
From 2004 – 2006 he worked as a Post-Doc at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT) in Leipzig on aerosol dynamics, air chemistry and CFD modelling. During that time he developed the first fully coupled CFD aerosol model to simulate nucleation, condensation and coagulation as well as particle and pre-cursor dispersion within a rapidly diluting plume of a driving car. Before, from 1999 – 2004 Ulrich Uhrner worked as a scientist at IfT on aerosol dynamics and atmospheric modelling of aerosols. He obtained his PhD at University of Leipzig in 2004.
After graduation at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) / KIT in atmospheric sciences Ulrich Uhrner started his career as a visiting researcher at ECMWF in Reading UK working on sub-grid scales orography scheme to improve forecast models and model climate.
Frank de Leeuw
Frank de Leeuw was trained as a chemist at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He completed his Ph.D. study at the same university in 1983 with a thesis on the conformational analysis of bio-organic molecules. He started at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in 1982 as senior scientist with special interests in air quality assessments. Since 2003 he is senior policy researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. He is and has been task leader within the European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change and the previous Europen Topic Centre on Air Quality of the European Environment Agency .
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Mag. Jakob Lenz
Studies of Law and Political Science at Vienna University and at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), specialising in European Law and Constitutional and Administrative Law.
Project assistant in the Venice Commission at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg working on the comparison of constitutional law.
Since 2008 employed at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management first at the Department for European Affairs – Environment and now at the Department for Climate Protection and Immission Control, where he is responsible, inter alia, for the immission law – ambient air.
Contact:
Mag. Jakob Lenz
Abteilung V/4, Klima- und Immissionsschutz
Stubenbastei 5, 1010 Wien
Tel. (+43 1) 51522 1722
Fax (+43 1) 51522 7737
jakob.lenz@lebensministerium.at
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Christoph Scharl
Christoph Scharl began his studies in mechanical engineering at Graz University of Technology in 2003. On 7 January 2008 he started working at the Virtual Vehicle Competence Centre (ViF) in Graz. There he is involved in several research projects and responsible for CFD calculations. This includes the entire working process, from the manipulation and meshing of the geometry and the performance of calculations to the evaluation and interpretation of results. His findings are chiefly applied to determine flows around and through vehicles as well as the associated physical phenomena.
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