Dr Ajit Singh PhD

Dr Ajit Singh

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Senior Research Fellow

Contact details

Email
a.singh.2@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@ajitsingh528
Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Ajit Singh is an environmental scientist with particular interest in air pollution measurements and management. His research and associated activities are focused on improving air quality and related knowledge in both developed and developing countries through interdisciplinary and life-cycle approaches by better understanding the climate, health and socio-economic consequences of poor air quality. He is working on a number of multi-national projects (involving the UK, Africa, Australia, India and USA among others) combining engineering, environmental, social and health sciences to provide a better understanding of the nexus between air pollution, climate, health and energy to improve environmental and health data & policies for socio-economic benefits and sustainable development.

Qualifications

  • PhD  –  School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
  • M.Tech. – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India
  • B.Tech.

Biography

Before joining the Research Fellow position in 2017, Dr Singh received his PhD (Environmental Sciences) from the University of Birmingham (UoB), UK and M.Tech. (Atmospheric Sciences) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. His PhD was funded by the UoB's ‘Elite Doctoral Scholarship’ scheme, during which he investigated the influences of atmospheric pollutants and meteorology on visibility and tropospheric chemistry through numerical and chemical modelling. 

Research

Air quality, aerosols, low-cost air quality sensors, visibility, meteorology, clean energy, climate change and public health

Other activities

  • Topic Editor of Atmosphere MDPI

  • Associate Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society 

  • Member of the Global Youth Science Partnership (GYSP) at the ‘Global Council for Science and the Environment’

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Ilyinskay E., Schmidt A., Mather T.A., Pope F., Witham c., Baxter P.J., Johansson t., Barsotti S., Pfeffer M., Singh A., Sanderson P., Bergsson B., Kilbride B.M., Donovan A., Peters N.J., Oppenheimer c., and Edmonds M., 2017, Understanding the environmental impacts of large fissure eruptions: Aerosol and gas emissions from the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption (Iceland), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 309-322. 
  2. Singh A., Bloss W. and Pope F., (2017), 60 years of UK visibility measurements: impact of meteorology and atmospheric pollutants on visibility, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 2085-2101
  3. Singh A., Bloss W. J., and Pope F. D., (2015), Remember, remember the 5th of November; gunpowder, particles and smog, Weather-(RMetS), 70(11), 320-324.
  4. Singh A. and Dey S., (2012), Influence of aerosol composition on visibility in megacity Delhi, Atmospheric Environment, 62, 367-373.

Proceedings

  1.  Dey, S., Sengupta, K., BasilL, G., Das, S., Nidhi, N., Dash, S. K., Sarkar, A., Srivastva, P., Singh, A. and Agarwal, P., (2012), Satellite-based 3D structure of cloud and aerosols over the Indian Monsoon region: implications for aerosol-cloud interaction, Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 8529,825907 (1-10)
  2. Singh A. and Dey S., (2012), Influence of aerosol composition on visibility Degradation: A case study from Delhi, Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA), 20, 1&2, 18-20.
  3. Dey S., Girolamo D.L., Donkelaar A.V., Tripathi S. N., Gupta T., Mohan M, and Singh A., (2012), changes in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) over India: Implications for human health, IASTA, 20, 1&2, 463-465

Short Articles

  1. Singh, A. (2014), "Urban air pollution and its effect on fog occurrence: a view from Northern Indian", Climate Snack, April 2014.