Juan Felipe Mendez Espinosa

Graduate Students

PhD Student

Current

Research Interests

His research interest focusses on air pollution management and climate change.

Selected Publications

Air quality variations in Northern South America during the COVID-19 lockdown
Juan F. Mendez-Espinosa et al.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720351500
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141621

Regional air quality impact of northern South America biomass burning emissions
Juan F. Mendez-Espinosa et al.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101930072X
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.01.042

Long-term brown carbon and smoke tracer observations in Bogotá, Colombia: association with medium-range transport of biomass burning plumes
Rincón-Riveros et al.,
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/7459/2020/

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI satellite application for NO2 and CO studies aiming at environmental valuation
Brian William Bodah et al.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652622015694

Education

Bachelor of Environmental and Sanitary engineering – Universidad de la Salle.
Master in Environmental engineering – Universidad de los Andes.

2023 - current, PhD Student Earth Sciences and Engineering, KAUST

Scientific and Professional Membership

Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network

Awards

Outstanding research project in Centro Lasallista de Investigación y Modelación Ambiental (CLIMA), 2014.
Outstanding thesis project in Universidad de los Andes, 2019.

Research Interests Keywords

Air pollution dispersion Climate Atmospheric modeling Arabian Peninsula