Location

406, Air and Noise Exposure Research Group (ANERG), ESED-DESE Building

Contact Information

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  • +91-22-25765851

Email

  • phuleria [at] iitb [dot] ac [dot] in

Prof. Harish Phuleria

Core Faculty

Associate Professor

Background

  1. Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering)

    2007 ,University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA , USA

    Thesis:Measurement and methods of assessing the impact of prevalent particulate matter sources on air quality in Southern California

  2.  M.Tech. (Environmental Science & Engineering)

    2003Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Thesis:Pollution studies of Powai Lake, Mumbai

  3.  M.Sc. (Chemistry)

    2001,Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Thesis:Interactions of Calixarenes and neutral organic molecules: 1H NMR study

  4.  B.Sc. (Chemistry) 1999, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Professional Appointments

  1. Member, The Aerosol Society, 2021
  2. Member, International Commission on Occupational Health, 2020
  3. Member, Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers, since 2020
  4. Life Member, Epidemiology Foundation of India, since 2020
  5. Life member, Indian Association of Occupational Health, since 2019
  6. Life member, Indian Public Health Association, since 2019
  7. Member, International Society for Exposure Sciences, 2008 – 2013, since 2019
  8. Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, since 2017
  9. Member, Air & Waste Management Association, 2010 - 2013
  10. Member, American Geophysical Union, 2005 - 2007
  11. Member, American Association for Aerosol Research, 2003 – 2007

Awards & Fellowships

  • Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay, Nov 2013

  • Third place winner in Graduate Student research competition SCAQMD’s Ultrafine Particle conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Apr 2006

  • Recipient of Junior Research Fellowship in Chemical Sciences from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. (Placed within top 1% of 8,000 appearing candidates), Jun 2001

  • Merit-cum-Means scholarship, Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, Jan 2000 – May 2001

  • Recipient of Merit Scholarship for outstanding academic performance by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, India (placed in top 0.1% among 100,000 students), Jun 1993ip, Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi, New Delhi

Dec 2020 – Dec 2025, Longitudinal effects of air pollution exposures on lung growth and development of biomarker of lung function deficit in urban children (RD/0120-DBT0001-004), Principal Investigator (Lead PI: Prof. Mahesh P.A., JSS Medical College, Mysore), Funded by DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance

Dec 2019- Dec 2022, Understanding particle toxicity and its association with chemical constituents of ambient particulate matter in India (RD/0119-DST0000-045), Principal Investigator, Funded by DST, Govt. of India

Nov 2018 – Mar 2022, Assessment of ambient air pollution exposures in a cohort of adult women in three metropolitan cities (RD/0118-LIOEM00-001), Principal Investigator, Funded by Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (IUF), Germany

Apr 2018 – Mar 2023, Measurement of real-world emission factors and estimating vehicular exhaust emissions using roadside and roadway tunnel studies (as part of “DST-CoE in Climate Studies project”) (DST/CCP/CoE/140/2018), Co-Investigator (PI: Prof. S. Karmakar, IIT Bombay), Funded by DST, Govt. of India

Mar 2016 – Mar 2023, NCAP: Carbonaceous aerosol emissions, source apportionment and climate impacts (RD/0115-MOEF001-001), Co-Principal Investigator, (PI: Prof. C. Venkataraman, IIT Bombay) Funded by MoEFCC, Govt. of India

Mar 2019 – Sep 2020, Technical Resource Unit for validating technologies for mitigating ambient air pollution (RD/0118-DST0000-063), Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Prof. R. Thaokar, IIT Bombay), Funded by DST, Govt. of India.

Dec 2019 - May 2020, Mapping of open-cast mines in Southern-Western India and characterization of air pollution emissions from mining activities (RI/0319-10001353-001),Principal Investigator, Research Internship grant from IRCC, IIT Bombay

Dec 2018- May 2019, Characterization and quantification of particulate matter emissions from on-road vehicles in Maharashtra (RI/0318-10001353-001), Principal Investigator, Research Internship grant from IRCC, IIT Bombay

Dec 2017 – May 2018, Assessment of nature and extent of prescribed agricultural crop residue burning in open fields and associated aerosol emissions in Western India (RI/0317-10001353-001), Principal Investigator, Research Internship grant from IRCC, IIT Bombay

Dec 2016 – May 2017, Characterization of particulate emissions from non-cooking residential sources in rural areas of Maharashtra (RI/0316-10001353-001), Principal Investigator, Research Internship grant from IRCC, IIT Bombay

Jul 2014 – Jun 2020, Indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure assessment in urban metropolitan slums (RD/0516-IRCCSH0-008), Principal Investigator, Seed grant from IRCC, IIT Bombay

Aug 2014 – Jul 2017, Towards an affordable and socially inclusive privatized healthcare (Swasth India project) (RD/0114-IMHPC06-003), Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Prof. A. Jana, IIT Bombay), Funded by MHRD Plan Grant

Jun – Dec 2012, Laboratory and field characterization of a new black carbon monitor and comparison with different particle mass metrics Co-Investigator (PI: Prof. N. Künzli, SwissTPH, Basel), Funded by Federal Office of Environment (BAFU)

Jun 2011 – May 2014, Traffic-specific air pollution exposure assessment in eight Swiss cities, Co-Investigator (PI: Prof. N. Künzli, SwissTPH, Basel), Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland

Mar 2010 – Feb 2013, TRITABS: Tri-national Project on Traffic, Air, Noise and Health Co-Investigator (PI: Prof. N. Künzli, SwissTPH, Basel), Funded by Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie, France