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Shamjad Moosakutty

Shamjad Moosakutty


Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

Biography

Dr. Shamjad P. Moosakutty is a Scientist at the Environment and Sustainability Center at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). His primary research is on the field measurement of air pollution and understanding its health and climate impacts. 

He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. During his first postdoctoral fellowship at Aarhus University, Denmark, he studied the lab-generated aerosols from gas-to-particle conversion in an enclosed chamber. His second postdoc at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, was focused on low-carbon fuel combustion and characterization. 

At QEERI, Shamjad is working to understand the overall air quality in the greater Doha area by measuring its properties continuously. He operates air quality monitoring instruments and develops software tools for data analysis and interpretation. 
 


Research Interests

  • Air pollution and atmospheric chemistry
  • Aerosol instrumentation
  • Climate change
  • Source apportionment
  • Impacts of weather events on local climate
  • Oxidative potential of particulate matter

Experience

Postdoc

Clean Combustion Research Center; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

2019 - 2021
  • Postdoc

    Department of Chemistry; Aarhus University; Aarhus; Denmark

    2017 - 2019

Education

Ph.D

Indian Institute of Technology; Kanpur; India.

2017
  • M.Tech

    Indian Institute of Technology; Kanpur; India.

    2011
  • B.Tech

    Mahatma Gandhi University; Kottayam; Kerala; India.

    2008

Selected Publications

  • Shamjad, P. M.; Satish, R. V.; Thamban, N. M.; Rastogi, N.; Tripathi, S. N.,

    Absorbing Refractive Index and Direct Radiative Forcing of Atmospheric Brown Carbon over Gangetic Plain. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2018.

    2018
  • Shamjad, P. M.; Tripathi, S. N.; Thamban, N. M.; Vreeland, H.,

    Refractive Index and Absorption Attribution of Highly Absorbing Brown Carbon Aerosols from an Urban Indian City-Kanpur. Scientific Reports, 2016.

    2016
  • Shamjad, P. M.; Tripathi, S. N.; Pathak, R.; Hallquist, M.; Arola, A.; Bergin, M. H.,

    Contribution of Brown Carbon to Direct Radiative Forcing over the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015.

    2015
  • Shamjad, P. M.; Tripathi, S. N.; Aggarwal, S. G.; Mishra, S. K.; Joshi, M.; Khan, A.; Sapra, B. K.; Ram, K.,

    Comparison of Experimental and Modeled Absorption Enhancement by Black Carbon (BC) Cored Polydisperse Aerosols under Hygroscopic Conditions. Environmental Science & Technology, 2012.

    2012