In this webinar you will discover how for the last 10 years a noise barrier which removes traffic pollution has been developed and tested in Canada and the UK.
Learn how this barrier can make immediate impact in reducing NOx and VOC in areas of high traffic pollution in the fight for cleaner air quality.
How photocatalytic technology combined with aerodynamics can make a considerable difference in the removal of traffic pollution quicker than modal shift in hot spots.

Our speaker

Dr. Andreas Kafizas, Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London 

Dr. Andreas Kafizas is a Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London (ICL) who has been independently reviewing the work carried out by SmogStop. His research is focused on developing sustainable processes to produce photocatalytic coatings for a range of practical applications, including renewable fuels (e.g. the generation of hydrogen fuel from water), air remediation (e.g. NOx removal) and water remediation (e.g. arsenic removal).

Andreas completed his MSci in Chemistry in 2007, and PhD in Chemistry in 2011 at University College London. His PhD was focussed on the developing photocatalytic coatings on windows, and was awarded the Ramsay Medal for best graduating doctor in his department. In 2012, he was awarded the Ramsay Memorial Fellowship to study the photo-excited states in photocatalysts for solar fuels at ICL. In 2016, he was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at ICL to develop photoelectrodes for solar water fuels. And in 2018, he was awarded a Lectureship at ICL, where he leads the Solar Coatings group (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas-Kafizas), is the theme lead in “Sustainable Power and Renewable Fuels” at the Energy Futures Lab, and is a board member at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

To date, Andreas has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers (>4,000 citations, h-index = 42) and written 5 book chapters. He has conducted research in the field of photocatalysis for 15 years, and is considered a leading expert in his field. He regularly reviews research articles in his discipline for journals of high esteem, including Nature Materials (IF = 43.8), Advanced Energy Materials (IF = 29.4), Advanced Functional Materials (IF = 18.8), and the Journal of the American Chemical Society (IF = 15.4) (https://publons.com/researcher/1461338/andreas-kafizas/peer-review/), and has recently consulted for the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) on the efficacy of TiO2 photocatalysts for remediating NOx, publishing a report on their effectiveness with recommendations for future work (http://eic-uk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Towards-Purer-Air-Report-Full-Digital.pdf).