Roy M Harrison

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Roy M Harrison

air pollution, especially airborne particulate matter

University of Birmingham

r.m.harrison@bham.ac.uk

+44 (0)121 41 43494



Scientific Publications

2022

2021

2020



About The Scientist

Short Biography

Roy Harrison is Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as well as Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests are in air pollution, especially airborne particulate matter. He has also been heavily engaged at the science/policy interface as a member of several government technical advisory groups for the Department of Health and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in the U.K. including past membership of Defra’s Science Advisory Council. He was a contributor to the World Health Organization Global Air Quality Guidelines and the Guidelines for Quality of Indoor Air. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2004 New Year Honours List and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017. He is author of over 600 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, and is listed by Web of Science as a Highly Cited Researcher.


Current Research Interest :

    Air Pollution; Atmospheric Science; Environmental Health; Environmental Chemistry; Aerosol Science

Researcher ID:
A-2256-2008


Five Of The Most Important Publications

Estimation of the Contribution of Brake Dust, Tire Wear and Resuspension to Nonexhaust Traffic Particles Derived from Atmospheric Measurements, R.M. Harrison, A. Jones, J. Gietl, J. Yin and D. Green, Environ. Sci. Technol., 46, 6523-6529 (2012).
Variations in Tropospheric Submicron Particle Size Distributions Across the European Continent 2008-2009, D.C.S. Beddows, M. Dall’Osto, R.M. Harrison, M. Kulmala, A. Asmi, A. Wiedensohler, P. Laj, A.M. Fjaeraa, K. Sellegri, W. Birmili, N. Bukowiecki, E. Weingartner, U. Baltensperger, V. Zdimal, N. Zikova, J.-P. Putaud, A. Marinoni, P. Tunved, H.-C. Hansson, M. Fiebig, N. Kivekäs, E. Swietlicki, H. Lihavainen, E. Asmi, V. Ulevicius, P.P. Aalto, N. Mihalopoulos, N. Kalivitis, I. Kalapov, G. Kiss, G. De Leeuw, B. Henzing, C. O’Dowd, S.G. Jennings, H. Flentje, F. Meinhardt, L. Ries, H.A.C. Denier Van Der Gon and A.J.H. Visschedijk, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 4327-4348 (2014).
Urinary Metabolites of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Saudi Arabian Schoolchildren in Relation to Sources of Exposure, M.A. Alghamdi, M.S. Alam, C. Stark, N. Mohammed, R.M. Harrison, M. Shamy, M.I. Khoder , I. Shabbaj and T. Göen, Environ. Res., 140, 495-501 (2015).
Diesel Exhaust Nanoparticles and their Behaviour in the Atmosphere, R.M. Harrison, A.R. MacKenzie, H. Xu, M.S. Alam, I. Nikolova, J. Zhong, A. Singh, S. Zeraati-Rezaei, C. Stark, D.C.S. Beddows, Z. Liang, R. Xu and X. Cai, Proc. R. Soc. A, 474, 20180492, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0492 (2018).
Airborne Particulate Matter, R.M. Harrison, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., 378, 20190319. (2020).




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