Prior to joining CICERO Sourangsu was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, where he worked on modelling air pollutants using a global atmospheric chemistry model and satellite retrievals and assessing their impact on human health.

He received his PhD in 2019 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Thesis title: Ambient PM_2.5 exposure and associated premature mortality burden for India in present and future climate). During his PhD tenure, he was a Nehru-Fulbright fellow at School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley where he researched contribution of household air pollution to ambient air pollution.

Though Sourangsu works on multiple facets of air pollution research, his primary research interest is to quantify impact of particulate matter on human health using multi-pronged modelling techniques.

Articles

The oldest source of air pollution still prevails

Published 13.3.2023

Twenty-two years into the twenty-first century, the oldest source of air pollution still prevails. Despite the many policies implemented by national governments and promoted by global bodies, solid fuel remains by far the dominant fuel used for cooking in most low and middle-income countries of South Asia and Africa, while solid fuel (both biomass and coal) is used for heating in much of East and Central Europe and Northern China.

Climate impacts internationally | Health

In flames: Air pollution and human health

Published 2.12.2022

While air pollution from PM2.5-emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America, air pollution from wildfires is increasing. With climate change, we will see more wildfires, risking that the impacts of the efforts that have been made to mitigate air pollution and related negative health effects could be diminished.

Health | Atmospheric particles

New report from Lancet Countdown highlights increasing impacts of climate change on people’s health and wellbeing

Published 1.11.2022

Climate change is undermining every dimension of global health monitored, states the most recent Lancet Countdown report that is tracking the connection between health and climate change.

Clean cooking: A recipe for a better world

Published 6.10.2022

Switching cooking in developing countries to cleaner forms of energy will lead to better health and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The 4CImpacts project looks at how gas use can be scaled up in Tanzania, and what consequences it will have for the climate, health and society.

Adaptation | Energy consumption | Just transition | Health

Projects

Quantifying health risks from heat and air pollution (HEATCOST)

HEATCOST will quantify health risks attributable to heat and air pollution (with a particular focus on air pollution from wildfires) in main world regions under selected climate scenarios and socioeconomic pathways.

EXHAUSTION

Increasing temperatures and heat waves due to climate change, combined with air pollution, constitute major health risks, and could cause an increase in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases across Europe. EXHAUSTION (Exposure to heat and air pollution in Europe – cardiopulmonary impacts and benefits of mitigation and adaptation) aims to quantify the changes in cardiopulmonary mortality and morbidity due to extreme heat and air pollution (including from wildfires) under selected climate scenarios.

EXHAUSTION has its own project website at EXHAUSTION.EU

Health | Air pollution | Heat waves

Research groups

Climate and health

The climate and health research group is an interdisciplinary group with strong competence within a range of areas of relevance to health impact assessment.