Heresh Amini is an exposure scientist and environmental epidemiologist. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and currently a visiting scientist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His research interests range from assessing environmental exposures by monitoring, satellite observations, and development of advanced computational models, to studying their acute and chronic health effects using various epidemiological study designs, causal inference, and geo-spatial epidemiology. He also works on environmental justice research across the United States.

Abstract: Exposure science and environmental epidemiology fields have rapidly advanced over the past decades. In this seminar, with a focus on air pollution, frontiers of exposure science and environmental epidemiology would be presented and discussed. This includes monitoring of regulated and not regulated air pollutants using stationary passive samplers (e.g., for hazardous air pollutants), mobile monitoring (e.g., for ultrafine particles by Google Air View project), to development of advanced AI models (e.g., machine- and super-learning algorithms) to predict historical hyperlocal concentrations for various components of fine particulate matter. Further, usefulness of such hyperlocal data for environmental epidemiology and environmental justice analyses would be discussed.