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Prof Anil Namdeo

Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Anil is a Professor of Air Quality Management, a Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Scientist. He a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS) and a Fellow of the Institute of Air Quality Management.  

He is a member of the Civil Aviation Authority’s Environmental Sustainability Panel, and an ad-hoc member of Defra’s Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG). He was a member of the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Public Health Advisory Committee deveping guideline (NG70) on Air Pollution: Outdoor Air Quality and Health). He is involved in the activities of the US Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transportation and Air Quality (ADC20).

His research bridges the gap between engineering, social science and public health. His research covers the monitoring, modelling and management aspects of air quality. His research focusses on air quality and health with special emphasis on personal exposure of population to air pollution. He is interested in environmental justice with a focus on understanding the links between land use, transportation, air quality, social deprivation and health. His recent work focuses on climate change (adaptation and mitigation) with particular emphasis on net-zero policies, strategies and practices.

He has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America through academic collaborations and funded research projects.

Anil Namdeo

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Relationship between air quality and asthma-related emergency hospital admissions in Mexico City 2017–2019, Hayes, L., Mejia-Arangure, J., Errington, A., Bramwell, L., Vega, E., Nunez-Enriquez, J., Namdeo, A., Entwistle, J., Miquelajauregui, Y., Jaimes-Palomera, M., Torres, N., Rascón-Pacheco, R., Duarte-Rodríguez, D., McNally, R. 1 Jan 2024, In: Thorax
  • Driving factors behind the continuous increase of long-term PM2.5-attributable health burden in India using the high-resolution global datasets from 2001 to 2020, Maji, K., Namdeo, A., Bramwell, L. 25 Mar 2023, In: The Science of the Total Environment
  • Exploring the role of human-following robots in supporting the mobility and wellbeing of older people, Li, S., Milligan, K., Blythe, P., Zhang, Y., Edwards, S., Palmarini, N., Corner, L., Ji, Y., Zhang, F., Namdeo, A. 20 Apr 2023, In: Scientific Reports
  • Reducing road transport emissions for climate policy in China and India, Loo, B., Li, L., Namdeo, A. 1 Sep 2023, In: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Air Quality Outside Schools in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: An Investigation into NO 2 and PM Concentrations and PM Respiratory Deposition, Keast, L., Bramwell, L., Maji, K., Rankin, J., Namdeo, A. 21 Jan 2022, In: ATMOSPHERE
  • Analysing the effect of gender on the human–machine interaction in level 3 automated vehicles, Li, S., Blythe, P., Zhang, Y., Edwards, S., Guo, W., Ji, Y., Goodman, P., Hill, G., Namdeo, A. 8 Jul 2022, In: Scientific Reports
  • Analysis of fine particulates from fuel burning in a reconstructed building at Çatalhöyük World Heritage Site, Turkey: assessing air pollution in prehistoric settled communities, Shillito, L., Namdeo, A., Bapat, A., Mackay, H., Haddow, S. 1 Mar 2022, In: Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Air Pollution and Its Association with Socioeconomic Status Indicators in Mexico City, García-Burgos, J., Miquelajauregui, Y., Vega, E., Namdeo, A., Ruíz-Olivares, A., Mejía-Arangure, J., Resendiz-Martinez, C., Hayes, L., Bramwell, L., Jaimes-Palomera, M., Entwistle, J., Núñez-Enríquez, J., Portas, A., McNally, R. 18 Nov 2022, In: Sustainability
  • Analysis of various transport modes to evaluate personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi, Maji, K., Namdeo, A., Hoban, D., Bell, M., Goodman, P., Nagendra, S., Barnes, J., De Vito, L., Hayes, E., Longhurst, J., Kumar, R., Sharma, N., Kuppili, S., Alshetty, D. 1 Feb 2021, In: Atmospheric Pollution Research
  • Bacterial diversity in house dust: characterization of a core indoor microbiome, Entwistle, J., Thompson, J., Argyraki, A., Bashton, M., Bramwell, L., Crown, M., Hursthouse, A., Jabeen, K., Marinho-Reis, A., Namdeo, A., Nelson, A., Pearce, D., Potgieter-Vermaak, S., Rasmussen, P., Wragg, J. 23 Nov 2021, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Membership of committee: Civil Aviation Authority (External organisation) 2022
  • Membership of committee: DEFRA (External organisation) 2021
  • Membership of committee: Queen Mary University of London (External organisation) 2021
  • Invited talk: Air quality management in the UK: what’s the hold up? 2021
  • Membership of committee: Born in Bradford Breathes (External organisation) 2021
  • Examination: External Examiner London South Bank University 2020
  • Editorial work: ATMOSPHERE (Journal) 2020
  • Membership of council: NERC Panel (External organisation) 2020
  • Examination: External Examiner - Loughborough University 2019
  • Membership of committee: Transportation Research Board (TRB) (External organisation) 2015


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