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Dusan Licina

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Dusan Licina (born in 1986 in Belgrade, Serbia) is an engineer and researcher specializing in indoor air quality, building ventilation, and human exposure. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and head of the Human-Oriented Built Environment Laboratory.[1][2]

Dusan Licina
Dusan Licina in 2018
Born (1986-11-22) November 22, 1986 (age 38)
Belgrade, Serbia
CitizenshipSerbian
EducationMechanical engineering
Alma mater
AwardsYaglou Award 2022
Scientific career
FieldsIndoor Environmental Quality
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
ThesisHuman convective boundary layer and its impact on personal exposure (2015)
Doctoral advisorTham Kwok Wai, Chandra Sekhar, Arsen Krikor Melikov
Other academic advisorsWilliam W. Nazaroff
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/hobel/

Early life and education

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Licina received a B.Sc. in 2008 and a M.Sc. in 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Belgrade. During this time, he specialized in studying heating, ventilation, and air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems. In 2015, he received a joint Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (School of Design and Environment) and the Technical University of Denmark (International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy). His Ph.D. thesis, titled "Human convective boundary layer and its impact on personal exposure," contributed to the improved understanding of airflow characteristics around the human body, personal exposure to airborne pollutants indoors, and ventilation control.[3]

Career

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Upon completing his Ph.D., Licina moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of William W. Nazaroff.[4][failed verification] During his postdoctoral career, Licina focused on investigating sources and transport of air pollutants in buildings and inhalation exposure assessment.[5] He then served as the director of the standard development team at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) in New York. During this time, he led the development of the air and thermal comfort concepts within the WELL v2 green building certification standard, a global standard for healthy buildings in more than 65 countries.[6]

Licina joined EPFL in June 2018 as a tenure-track assistant professor of indoor environmental quality at the School for Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), and has since served as director of the Human-Oriented Built Environment Laboratory at EPFL, also part of the Smart Living Lab and located in Fribourg.[1][2]

Research

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Some of Licina’s notable research contributions include understanding of contributions of human skin and clothing to the concentration and diversity of indoor chemicals and particulate matter, including bioaerosols,[7][8] and their contribution to indoor inhalation burden.[9][10]

Recognition

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In 2022, Licina received the Yaglou Award granted by the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) at the Indoor Air 2022 conference.[11]

Licina is the recipient of the Ralph G. Nevins award by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).[12][13] His research group's work yielded three conference awards at the Healthy Building 2021.[14] He is an editorial board member of the Indoor Air and Atmosphere journals.[15][16]

He has frequently appeared in media outlets, for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic as an expert on airborne pathogen transmission mechanisms on the Swiss television RTS,[17] in the Swiss newspaper 20 min,[18] on the new portal Heidi.News,[19] and on matters related to indoor air quality in Mirage News[20] and Tech Explorist.[21][22] He also gave a lecture on the April 2021 workshop series organized by the US National Academy of Sciences on the state-of-the-science on exposure to PM2.5 indoors, its health impacts and engineering approaches, and interventions to reduce exposure risks, including practical mitigation solutions in residential settings.[23]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ a b "10 professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  2. ^ a b "HOBEL". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  3. ^ Licina, Dusan (2015). Human convective boundary layer and its impact on personal exposure. Technical University of Denmark, Department of Civil Engineering. ISBN 978-87-7877-429-3.
  4. ^ "William W Nazaroff". Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  5. ^ Licina, Dusan; Bhangar, Seema; Brooks, Brandon; Baker, Robyn; Firek, Brian; Tang, Xiaochen; Morowitz, Michael J.; Banfield, Jillian F.; Nazaroff, William W. (2016-05-13). "Concentrations and Sources of Airborne Particles in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit". PLOS ONE. 11 (5): e0154991. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1154991L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154991. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4866781. PMID 27175913.
  6. ^ "International WELL Building Institute". resources.wellcertified.com. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  7. ^ Yang, Shen; Bekö, Gabriel; Wargocki, Pawel; Williams, Jonathan; Licina, Dusan (2020-12-18). "Human Emissions of Size-Resolved Fluorescent Aerosol Particles: Influence of Personal and Environmental Factors". Environmental Science & Technology. 55 (1): 509–518. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c06304. hdl:21.11116/0000-0007-EDFB-4. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 33337850. S2CID 229324970.
  8. ^ Bekö, Gabriel; Wargocki, Pawel; Wang, Nijing; Li, Mengze; Weschler, Charles J.; Morrison, Glenn; Langer, Sarka; Ernle, Lisa; Licina, Dusan; Yang, Shen; Zannoni, Nora (2020-06-07). "The Indoor Chemical Human Emissions and Reactivity (ICHEAR) project: Overview of experimental methodology and preliminary results". Indoor Air. 30 (6): 1213–1228. Bibcode:2020InAir..30.1213B. doi:10.1111/ina.12687. ISSN 0905-6947. PMID 32424858. S2CID 218689298.
  9. ^ Licina, D.; Tian, Y.; Nazaroff, W. W. (2017-01-13). "Emission rates and the personal cloud effect associated with particle release from the perihuman environment". Indoor Air. 27 (4): 791–802. Bibcode:2017InAir..27..791L. doi:10.1111/ina.12365. ISSN 0905-6947. PMID 28009455. S2CID 21684324.
  10. ^ Licina, Dusan; Morrison, Glenn C.; Bekö, Gabriel; Weschler, Charles J.; Nazaroff, William W. (2019-04-29). "Clothing-Mediated Exposures to Chemicals and Particles". Environmental Science & Technology. 53 (10): 5559–5575. Bibcode:2019EnST...53.5559L. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b00272. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 31034216. S2CID 140518813.
  11. ^ "Yaglou Award - International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate". isiaq.org. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  12. ^ Licina, Dusan (2018-04-07). "ASHRAE honors Dusan Licina". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ "ASHRAE Honors and Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Achievements of Dedicated Members". www.achrnews.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  14. ^ "Healthy Buildings 2021". REHVA. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  15. ^ "Indoor Air". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  16. ^ "Atmosphere". www.mdpi.com. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  17. ^ "Les recherches sur la transmission du virus par les aérosols avancent". rts.ch (in French). 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  18. ^ "Corona-Experten appellieren an WHO, Aerosol-Gefahr nicht zu unterschätzen". 20 Minuten (in German). 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  19. ^ "Que faut-il comprendre de la controverse sur la transmission aérienne de Covid-19?". www.heidi.news (in French). 8 July 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  20. ^ "Indoor air quality merits closer attention, Mirage News". www.miragenews.com. 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  21. ^ "Ozone causes our skin to emit tiny airborne particles". Tech Explorist. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  22. ^ "How your clothes influence the air you breathe". Tech Explorist. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  23. ^ "Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Practical Mitigation Approaches – Workshop on Sources of Indoor Fine Particulate Matter". www.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
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