PhD position Sources and exposure risks of urban aerosols – real-time chemical characterization in Lille (RESILIENCE)

Laboratory: Centre of Education, Research and Innovation on Energy and Environment (CERI EE)

Supervisors: Dr. Hui CHEN, Dr. Laurent ALLEMAN, Prof. Véronique RIFFAULT

Type of contract and duration: Full-time Ph

D (doctoral contract) – 36 months

Workplace: Bourseul Campus, Douai, France

Context:

IMT Nord Europe is a public higher-education and research institution belonging to the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) group, under the supervision of the French Ministry of Industry. Its missions include engineering education, scientific research, and innovation in support of sustainable territorial development. For more details, please visit: www.imt-nord-europe.fr/en

This Ph

D position will be hosted within CERI EE at IMT Nord Europe, in the research axis “Observations, Sources and Processes in the Atmosphere” (OSPA) . The host team develops advanced experimental and data analysis approaches to characterize atmospheric aerosols, their sources, and their impacts on air quality and health.

This Ph

D research is part of the PEPR VDBI RESILIENCE project ( https://pepr-vdbi.fr/projets-laureats/projets-resilience ). It aims to develop transdisciplinary approaches to evaluate how urban planning and mobility-transition policies can improve living conditions and generate co-benefits for air quality and health. The Ph

D research will focus on high-time-resolution measurements of aerosol chemical composition and size distributions, source apportionment, and exposure indicators in contrasting urban environments, including:

· Long-term observations at the ATOLL platform (Atmospheric Observatory of Li

Lle), integrated into the European ACTRIS research infrastructure.

· Enhanced field campaign datasets collected in 2026 within the RESILIENCE campaigns in Lille city center.

Together, these datasets provide a unique framework to identify and quantify the contributions of