Hector Ivan Jorquera Gonzalez
Professor
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
Air quality modeling; local, urban and regional scale modeling (PM, ozone); receptor modeling; indoor air quality monitoring and modeling
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Engineering Sciences, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1986
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Chemical Civil Engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1987
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Chemical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1987
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Chemical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Estados Unidos, 1991
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Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Faculty of Engineering
Chile
1992 - A la fecha
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Manager in Environmental Solutions Part Time
Dictuc S.A.
Chile
2000 - A la fecha
Teaching of ‘Air pollution engineering’ course for undergraduate and graduate levels.
Two MSc and three undergraduate theses supervised.
Ongoing supervision of a PhD student is carried out with cooperation from U. Colorado at Boulder.
Member of committees of MSc and PhD students from PUC, U. de Chile and USACh.
A book: “Introduction to Air Pollution Engineering” (with the collaboration of prof. Luis Rizzi) has been drafted and submitted to PUC’s Editorial Committee for approval.
Lecturer in 11 training courses on air quality modeling for consultants, students and faculty in Chile, Argentina and Colombia.
Frequently interviewed in the media regarding air pollution issues.
Project leader in two methodological developments for the environmental assessment of public transportation plans: the MODEM and MODEC computer models. MODEM (v5.0) is a computer tool that estimates city-wide, annual transport emissions of air pollutants using as input the outcomes of equilibrium transport models such as ESTRAUS and fully customized choices of emission factors; MODEC (v2.1) extends the results of MODEM to estimate changes in air quality and health effects associated to the implementation of transport initiatives, including source-receptor matrices for several Chilean cities and locally estimated cost-benefit figures. Both models have been used for the Government in several cities.
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Luksic Visiting Scholar
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Estados Unidos, 2006
To support research of distinguished Chilean scholars at Harvard
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Latin American Expert on Air Quality
United Nations Environment Programme
Panamá, 2008
Latin-American expert on Air Quality
Importance of the Population Exposure Model in the Impact of PM and Daily Mortality |
Urban Air Pollution |
Air Quality |
Introducción a la Contaminación Atmosférica |
Métodos Numéricos Aplicados a la Ingeniería |
MASSEV - Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling Air Quality for Sustainable Environments in Cities and Communities |
Severe ambient PM2.5 pollution in southern Chile: atmospheric sources and processes |
Severe ambient PM2.5 pollution in southern Chile=> atmospheric sources and processes |
Desarrollo de cubiertas vegetales de edificios para la mitigación de la contaminación atmosférica urbana a través de la captura de material particulado en clima semiárido. |
Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) |
Center for Sustainable Urban Development |
Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) |
Indoor PM2.5 at Santiago, Chile=> composition, source contributions, exposure and its association to health effects |
Study to evaluate the impact of atmospheric pollution on the olive business in the coastal area of Huasco |
A Hybrid approach to urban air quality modeling |
A hybrid approach to urban air quality modeling |
Impactos de la Contaminación Atmosférica en la Salud=> Análisis Según Componentes Elementales y Susceptibilidad de la Población |
Impacts of air pollution on health: Analysis according to elemental components and susceptibility of the population |