Dr Joshua Vande Hey

I am an atmospheric scientist conducting research at interface of air pollution, human health and environmental policy.  I have expertise in  knowledge exchange and translation of environmental science and technology into applications in industry and policy, with 20 years experience in applied science and engineering.  I lead the Earth Observation Science Research Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and I am part of the university's interdisciplinary Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability.

My research focuses on policy and health related air quality science underpinned by novel technology development in Earth observation instrumentation. My interdisciplinary research aims to understand how human activities are impacting the atmospheric environment and how the atmospheric environment effects human health, with an emphasis on providing evidence for policy. To enable robust quantitative understanding of concentrations of key atmospheric constituents and their variability, I develop and employ a range of observational and modelling methods across local and regional scales to understand anthropogenic emissions and human exposures, including at the interface between indoor and outdoor environments, and evaluate the effectiveness of pollution exposure reduction measures.  A key element of my work involves specifying and developing the next generation of satellite instruments for observing air quality and atmospheric composition.

Daniel A. Potts, Emma J.S. Ferranti, Joshua D. Vande Hey: Investigating the barriers and pathways to implementing satellite data into air quality monitoring, regulation and policy design in the United Kingdom, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 151, 103621, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103621, 2024.

Potts, D. A., Timmis, R., Ferranti, E. J. S., and Vande Hey, J. D.: Identifying and accounting for the Coriolis effect in satellite NO₂ observations and emission estimates, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 4577–4593, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4577-2023, 2023.

Lev D. Labzovskii, Joshua Vande Hey, Aleksey A. Romanov, Polina Golovatina-Mora, Dmitriy Belikov, Azam Lashkari, Samuel Takele Kenea, Erik Hekman, Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia), Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 140, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.11.016

Wright, C. Y., Wernecke, B., Kapwata, T., Kunene, Z., Mathee, A., Vande Hey, J., & Theron, L., Perceptions of thermal comfort and coping mechanisms related to indoor and outdoor temperatures among participants living in rural villages in Limpopo province, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 52(4), 449-459, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/00812463221129363

Rikesh Panchal, Marios Panagi, Hannah R. May, Jolanta A. Obszynska, Megan S. Evans, Anna L. Hansell, John Gulliver, Joshua D. Vande Hey, Personal air pollution exposure during morning commute car and active transport journeys, Journal of Transport & Health, Volume 26, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101365.

Wright, C. Y., Kapwata, T., Abdelatif, N., Batini, C., Wernecke, B., Kunene, Z., Millar, D. A., Mathee, A., Street, R., Panchal, R., Hansell, A., Cordell, R., & Vande Hey, J. V. (2022). Household Air Pollution and Respiratory Symptoms a Month Before and During the Stringent COVID-19 Lockdown Levels 5 and 4 in South Africa. Annals of global health, 88(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3465

Potts, D.A.; Ferranti, E.J.S.; Timmis, R.; Brown, A.S.; Vande Hey, J.D. Satellite Data Applications for Site-Specific Air Quality Regulation in the UK: Pilot Study and Prospects. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 1659. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12121659

Cordell, R.L.; Panchal, R.; Bernard, E.; Gatari, M.; Waiguru, E.; Ng’ang’a, M.; Nyang’aya, J.; Ogot, M.; Wilde, M.J.; Wyche, K.P.; Abayomi, A.A.; Alani, R.; Monks, P.S.; Vande Hey, J.D. "Volatile Organic Compound Composition of Urban Air in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria". Atmosphere 2021, 12, 1329. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12101329

Bianca Wernecke, Caradee Y. Wright, Joshua Vande Hey, Stuart Piketh, Roelof Burger, Zamantimande Kunene, Rikesh Panchal, Danielle Millar, Dina N. Oosthuizen, Chiara Batini, Catherine John, Anna L. Guyatt, Richard J. Packer, Martin D. Tobin, Anna Hansell, John Gulliver, Rebecca L. Cordell, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Michele Ramsay, Jocelyn Gayenga, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Khanyisa Ngobeni , Vukosi Baloyi, Brigitte Language, "Commentary: Opportunities for the application of low-cost sensors in epidemiological studies to advance evidence of air pollution impacts on human health," Clean Air Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2021, https://doi.org/10.17159/caj/2021/31/1.11219

Panos Vostanis, Joshua Vande Hey, Mamun Ur-Rashid, Cristina Ruiz Villena, Marios Panagi, Sadiyya Haffejee, Ferdous Jahan, "Barriers to child wellbeing in Dhaka settlements: Stakeholder perspectives and geospatial analysis," Wellbeing, Space and Society, Volume 2, 2021, 100043, ISSN 2666-5581, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2021.100043.

Fletcher DH, Likongwe PJ, Chiotha SS, Nduwayezu G, Mallick D, Uddin Md N, Rahman A, Golovátina-Mora P, Lotero L, Bricker S, Tsirizeni M, Fitch A, Panagi M, Ruiz Villena C, Arnhardt C, Vande Hey J, Gornall R, Jones L. "Using demand mapping to assess the benefits of urban green and blue space in cities from four continents." Sci Total Environ. 2021 Sep 1;785:147238. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147238. Epub 2021 Apr 23. PMID: 33940421.

Blair, G, Bassett, R, Bastin, L, Beevers, L, Borrajo Garcia, M, Brown, M, Dance, S, Dionescu, A, Edwards, L, Ferrario, MA, Fraser, R, Fraser, H, Gardner, S, Henrys, PA, Hey, T, Homann, S, Huijbers, C, Hutchison, J, Jonathan, P, Lamb, R, Laurie, S, Leeson, A, Leslie, D, McMillan, M, Nundloll, V, Oyebamiji, O, Phillipson, J, Pope, V, Prudden, R, Reis, S, Salama, M, Samreen, F, Sejdinovic, D, Simm, W, Street, R, Thornton, L, Towe, R, Vande Hey, JD, Vieno, M, Waller, J & Watkins, J 2021, "The Role of Digital Technologies in Responding to the Grand Challenges of the Natural Environment: The Windermere Accord," Patterns, vol. 2, no. 1, 100156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100156

Lin, C., Labzovskii, L., Mak, H.W.L., Fung, J.C.H., Lau, A.K.H., Kenea, S.T., Bilal, M., Vande Hey, J.D., Lu, X. and Ma, J.: "Observation of PM2.5 using a combination of satellite remote sensing and low-cost sensor network in Siberian urban areas with limited reference monitoring," Atmos. Environ., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117410, 2020.

Ruiz Villena, C., Anand, J. S., Leigh, R. J., Monks, P. S., Parfitt, C. E., and Vande Hey, J. D.: "Discrete-wavelength DOAS NO2 slant column retrievals from OMI and TROPOMI," Atmos. Meas. Tech., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-252, 2020.

Panagi, M., Fleming, Z. L., Monks, P. S., Ashfold, M. J., Wild, O., Hollaway, M., Zhang, Q., Squires, F. A., and Vande Hey, J. D.: "Investigating the regional contributions to air pollution in Beijing: A dispersion modelling study using CO as a tracer," Atmos. Chem. Phys., https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/2825/2020/ , 2020.

Johnson L, Thomas R, Vande Hey J et al. "Geographically distributed longitudinal nitrogen dioxide and other air pollution sensor measurements in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children cohort catchment area". Wellcome Open Res 2019, 4:162, https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15468.1

A Boyd, R Thomas, A L Hansell, J Gulliver, L M Hicks, R Griggs, J Vande Hey, C M Taylor, T Morris, J Golding, R Doerner, D Fecht, J Henderson, D A Lawlor, N J Timpson, J Macleod, Data Resource Profile: The ALSPAC birth cohort as a platform to study the relationship of environment and health and social factors, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2019, DOI: /10.1093/ije/dyz063

J. D. Vande Hey, H. Sonderfeld, A. P. R. Jeanjean, R. Panchal, R. J. Leigh, M. A. Allen, M. Dawson & P. S. Monks: "Experimental and modeling assessment of a novel automotive cabin PM2.5 removal system," Aerosol Science and Technology, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2018.1490694

Madonna, F., Rosoldi, M., Lolli, S., Amato, F., Vande Hey, J., Dhillon, R., Zheng, Y., Brettle, M., and Pappalardo, G.: "Intercomparison of aerosol measurements performed with multi-wavelength Raman lidars, automatic lidars and ceilometers in the frame of INTERACT-II campaign," Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 2459-2475, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2459-2018, 2018.

Peterson, P.J.D.; Aujla, A.; Grant, K.H.; Brundle, A.G.; Thompson, M.R.; Vande Hey, J.; Leigh, R.J., “Practical Use of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors for Measuring Nitrogen Dioxide and Ozone in Urban Environments,” Sensors 2017, 17, 1653.

A. Papayannis, A. Argyrouli, A. Bougiatioti, E. Remoundaki, S. Vratolis, A. Nenes, S. Solomos, M. Komppula, E. Giannakaki, J. Kalogiros, R. Banks, K. Eleftheriadis, E. Mantas, E. Diapouli, C.G. Tzanis, S. Kazadzis, I. Binietoglou, L. Labzovskii, J. Vande Hey, C.S. Zerefos, "From hygroscopic aerosols to cloud droplets: The HygrA-CD campaign in the Athens basin — An overview," Science of The Total Environment, Volume 574, 1 January 2017, Pages 216-233, ISSN 0048-9697.

Lawrence, J. P., Anand, J. S., Vande Hey, J. D., White, J., Leigh, R. R., Monks, P. S., and Leigh, R. J.: "High-resolution measurements from the airborne Atmospheric Nitrogen Dioxide Imager (ANDI)," Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 4735–4754, doi:10.5194/amt-8-4735-2015, 2015.

Madonna, F., Amato, F., Vande Hey, J., and Pappalardo, G.: "Ceilometer aerosol profiling versus Raman lidar in the frame of the INTERACT campaign of ACTRIS," Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2207-2223, doi:10.5194/amt-8-2207-2015, 2015.

J. Vande Hey, J. Coupland, M. Foo, J. Richards, and A. Sandford, “Determination of overlap in lidar systems," Appl. Opt. 50, 5791-5797, 2011.

Earth Observation of the Atmosphere

Year 1 Physics Laboratory

R Computing Workshops

Physics Research Project Supervision

Physics Challenge

• Outdoor and indoor air quality science
• Earth observing satellites and instruments
• Environmental public health
• Air quality policy