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SUMMARY:Air pollution health impacts & implications for environmental justice
DESCRIPTION:Martedì 11 giugno alle ore 11:30 presso l’aula Grandori (Edificio 4\, piano seminterrato\, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32) si terrà un seminario dal titolo: “Air pollution health impacts & implications for environmental justice“\, tenuto dalla Prof.ssa Paola Crippa (Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame). \nSarà anche possibile seguire l’evento da remoto tramite il seguente link. \nAbstract \nImplementing effective policy to protect human health from the adverse effects of air pollution\, such as premature mortality\, requires reducing the uncertainty in health outcomes models. \nThe main limitation of traditional uncertainty assessments is considering the pollutants fields (e.g.\, particulate matter finer than 2.5µm\, PM2.5) from air quality models as deterministic\, while using the uncertainty in exposure-response functions to estimate confidence intervals in the mortality estimates. However\, PM2.5 fields from air quality models are far from being perfectly known. To overcome this limitation\, I will illustrate a data assimilation framework that incorporates ground observations from air quality networks to (i) improve the reliability of the PM2.5 concentrations\, and to (ii) calculate the spatially-explicit variance of the PM2.5. I will discuss how the uncertainty from exposure-response functions and PM2.5 fields can be combined to estimate the overall uncertainty in mortality estimates and show that the associated confidence intervals are much wider than previously reported. I will illustrate such methodology on two case studies\, the first one focused on estimating recent trends of premature mortality burden in China and the second one on computing health benefits related to COVID-19 lockdowns during 2020 in China and Europe. \nIn the second part of this talk\, I will present a novel method to reduce mortality uncertainty by varying the amount of health and/or pollution data and employing information yield curves to identify which variables more effectively reduce uncertainty when increasing information. I will apply this method to a real case study for short-term PM2.5 mortality in North Carolina.  I will also consider the environmental justice implications of increased information in the assessment\, as both pollution and epidemiology data tend to be scarcer for communities in rural areas and/or of low socio-economic status. \nSpeaker’s bio \nPaola Crippa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Among her recognitions\, in 2015 she was awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowship For Women In Science to investigate the societal impacts of wildfires in South-East Asia and in 2023 the NSF CAREER award on multiscale model simulations. Her research focuses on investigating the spatio-temporal variability of atmospheric aerosols and associated impacts on human health and climate by using high resolution numerical models\, as well as on coupled meso- to micro-scale simulations for a variety of engineering applications in the atmospheric boundary layer.
URL:https://www.dica.polimi.it/it/evento/air-pollution-health-impacts-implications-for-environmental-justice/
CATEGORIES:Seminari e conferenze
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SUMMARY:Breaking the stigma on academic mental health
DESCRIPTION:Martedì 11 giugno alle ore 16:00 presso l’aula Grandori (Building 4\, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32) si terrà un seminario dal titolo: “Breaking the stigma on academic mental health“\, tenuto dal Dr. Stefano Zucca (Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Università di Torino). \nAbstract \nMental health and wellbeing in academia has recently been the focus of global investigations\, with several studies\, surveys and initiatives highlighting high level of stress and poor working conditions among researchers. In particular\, different studies found early-stage researchers to be at the highest risk of developing mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. In this talk I will give an overview of the current academic environment using published studies. Through examples\, data and interactive discussion\, I will highlight the main common stressors among early-stage researchers\, providing ideas of possible strategies to improve mental health and wellbeing at work. \nSpeaker’s bio \nStefano is a neuroscientist interested in understanding how our brain integrates and uses sensory information from the outside world to guide our instinctive responses. He obtained a PhD in Neuroscience and Brain Technologies in Italy\, at the Italian Institute of Technology. He did a postdoc in the department of Experimental Psychology at University College London (UCL) and he is now a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at University of Turin. In the past years he has been involved in activities aimed in raising awareness and promoting discussion about Mental Health in academia. In 2019 he became a Mental Health First Aider. In 2020 he developed and implemented at UCL a scheme based on coaching skills to support researchers and improve their well-being. He has delivered several talks and workshops at national and international conferences speaking about stress in academic environments. Stefano strongly believes in the importance of expanding and improving the dialog on academic mental health across all career stages in research. Only by acting all together it will be possible to build a better and more supportive research culture.
URL:https://www.dica.polimi.it/it/evento/breaking-the-stigma-on-academic-mental-health/
CATEGORIES:Seminari e conferenze
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SUMMARY:A Bottom-Up approach to foster low carbon UHPC floors
DESCRIPTION:Venerdì 28 giugno alle ore 11:45 presso l’aula Grandori (Edificio 4\, piano seminterrato\, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32) si terrà un seminario dal titolo “A Bottom-Up approach to foster low carbon UHPC floors“\, tenuto dal Prof. Luca Sorelli (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile\, Università Laval – Canada). \nAbstract \nReducing carbon footprints in residential floors involves optimizing design and selecting eco-friendly materials. This presentation showcases Université Laval’s ongoing efforts to develop low-cement ultra-high-performance concrete with minimal embodied carbon\, achieved by substituting cement with mineral fillers and develop efficient structural solutions. The research methodology encompasses microindentation studies\, material property enhancements\, and optimized floor designs. The results feature eco-UHPC ribbed precast floors and composite floors with timber\, offering both reduced carbon footprints and lighter weight\, thereby providing sustainability solutions for construction practices.
URL:https://www.dica.polimi.it/it/evento/a-bottom-up-approach-to-foster-low-carbon-uhpc-floors/
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