Indoor Environmental Quality: Select Proceedings of ACIEQ 2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 380)

Prashant is Professor & Chair in Air Quality and Health; founding Director of the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) and the foundingCo-Director of the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey, UK. His current research projects are focused on broad multidisciplinary areas of air pollution monitoring/modelling, low-cost sensing, nature-based solutions, climate change mitigation and developing innovative technological and passive (e.g. green infrastructure) solutions for air pollution exposure control for both developing and developed world. He has published ~350 journal articles, attracting ~18,500 citations; h-index, 67; i10index, 255. Prashant is one of the world’s top-cited researchers. In 2022, he received the global accolade of being recognised in the top 1% of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ by Clarivate. His research has secured over £11M of individual research funding from projects total worth over £30M, funded by the RCUK, EC, industry, charities and international funding bodies. He has developed a network of collaborators across four continents and his research has featured regularly in well-readmedia outlets such as the BBC and The Times. Barun Aggarwal is a serial Entrepreneur with a versatile background and international experience spanning 25 years in several continents. Currently, he heads BreatheEasy Consultants Pvt Ltd―a full service indoor air quality (IAQ) solution provider whose focus is not only indoor air quality (IAQ) but also energy conservation. He is Founding Member of Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA), USA―India Chapter and immediate past chapter Director for IAQA, India Chapter. Currently, he holds the position of Membership Chair, India Chapter. He is Member of ISHRAE and is Founding Member of the IEQ Committee of ISHRAE that has developed the first international standard for Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)―published in 2016.