Catherine Liousse is a research director at the CNRS in the Laboratory of Aeronomy (LAERO) in Toulouse. Her work focuses on studying the impacts of combustion aerosol emissions on climate and health. Over the past 25 years, her projects have been on a global scale, with a strong emphasis on the African continent, combining field measurements, satellite data, and numerical calculations. More recently, she has led interdisciplinary programs addressing the impact of air pollution on health in West Africa, such as the EU-FP7 DACCIWA project (Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa) and the ANR APIMAMA project (Air Pollution Mitigation Actions for Megacities in Africa, 2022-2026). Through her work and a strong collaboration with UFHB in Ivoiry Coast, she has contributed to the training of more than ten African researchers in these areas. She served as the head of the Emissions, Depositions, Impacts (EDI) team at LAERO from 2003 to 2020 and co-led the Environment Health Society axis at the Midi-Pyrénées Observatory until 2019. Currently, she is co-responsible for the international scientific program GEIA (http://www.geiacenter.org/), an international project on emissions. She is the author and co-author of more than 100 scientific articles. Finally, she has promoted these research themes internationally (e.g., IGAC-ANGA, International Global Atmospheric Chemistry-AfricaN Group on Atmospheric Sciences, GEIA-Africa).
Introduction In West Africa, air pollution in large cities is a major public health issue. Over the past twenty years, measurement campaigns in West African urban areas (e.g. Abidjan, Dakar, Cotonou, …
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