Dr. Rami Alfarra is the Air Quality Lead and acting director of the Environment Center at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Doha, Qatar. He has over two decades of international experience in atmospheric aerosols and their impact on air quality, climate change, and human health. Dr. Alfarra leads applied research close to the interface between science and policymaking focusing on air quality assessment, sources, and atmospheric processes of air pollution and their human health impacts in urbanised arid regions.
Dr. Alfarra completed a PhD degree in atmospheric science at the University of Manchester in the UK in 2004, worked as a post-doctoral scientist at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland from 2005 to 2008 and a scientist at the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and Fellow at the University of Manchester from 2009 to 2021. He contributed to more than 40 major national and international research collaborations and has more than 80 publications. Rami received the 2008 Swiss Academy of Sciences Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Award.