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Dr. Mohammed Rami Al Farra

Sunday, October 27, 2024
Dr. Mohammed Rami Al Farra
Dr Rami Alfarra is a Principal Scientist and Air Quality Lead at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute in Doha, Qatar. He has over two decades of international experience in studying atmospheric aerosols and their impact on air quality, climate change and human health. Dr Alfarra leads applied research close to the interface between science and policymaking focusing on air quality assessments, source attribution of air pollution and their human health impacts. To date, Rami participated in nearly 40 major national and international research collaborations and has eighty publications with more than eighteen thousand citations. Dr Alfarra completed a PhD degree in Atmospheric Science at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2004. He then joined the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland from 2005 to 2008 as a post-doctoral scientist, and later became a scientist at the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and Fellow at the University of Manchester from 2009 to 2021. He received the 2008 Swiss Academy of Sciences Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Award. Dr Alfarra has recently been appointed as member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC).