What's New

Publications

"An inexpensive light-scattering particle monitor: chamber and field validations with woodsmoke"(Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2007, 1099-1106 doi: 39/b709329m).
"Speciation of ambient fine organic carbon particles and source apportionment of PM2.5 in Indian cities,"Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2007, 112, D15303, doi:10.1029/2007JD008386.

Talks

Integrated & Real-time PM2.5 Concentrations in Kitchens, Bedrooms, and Outdoors in Highland Guatemala Using both Gravimetric and UCB Particle Monitor
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: Indoor Air Pollution Monitoring
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: Indoor PM2.5 and CO Concentrations Reduction from Improved Stoves Installation in Rural Northwest Yunnan Province, China
Current Source Apportionment Studies in ASIA: An Overview

Poster Presentations

Size Distributed Chemical Composition of Fine Particles Emitted from Burning Asian Coal

Dr. Chowdhury has left his position as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of California at Berkeley to start as an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University from August 2007

Biography

Dr. Zohir Chowdhury joined SDSU in the Fall of 2007 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH) Division in the Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Chowdhury completed a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004. Prior to joining SDSU, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Lecturer in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. At SDSU, he will teach the OEH core course in Air Quality starting from Spring 2008.

Dr. Chowdhury's research interests are in Air Pollution focusing on particulate matter (PM)-both in urban and in rural regions as well as in indoor and in outdoor environments. Particulate matter air pollution has been of concern not only in the US but all over the world since it causes respiratory and cardiac problems, visibility reduction, and a documented effect on global warming. Dr. Chowdhury's research seeks to characterize this particulate matter (PM) air pollution, develop instruments and methods to measure it, and understand its health effects. He is a member of the American Association of Aerosol Research, Air & Waste Management Association, and International Society of Exposure Assessment.

Dr. Chowdhury was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Italy and Bangladesh before starting his Higher Education in the United States. He is married to Homayara Sharmin Chowdhury and they have a three-year old son, Irfan Oyon Chowdhury. Outside of the lab and classroom, Zohir enjoys traveling with family in less known places across the world, hiking, following Italian soccer, and gardening.