Satoshi Takahama
EPFL ENAC IIE LAPI
GR C1 507 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://lapi.epfl.ch/
Fields of expertise
Measurement, analysis, and modeling of atmospheric aerosols
Mission
To characterize atmospheric aerosols and their impacts on air quality and climate through a combination of analytical and computational methods.Professional course
Assistant Project Scientist
Center for Atmospheric Sciences
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
2009-2012
Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Atmospheric Sciences
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
2006-2008
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
2005
Education
Ph.D.
Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
2005
B.S.
Civil Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
2000
Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience extraction
Unraveling ice multiplication in winter orographic clouds via in-situ observations, remote sensing and modeling
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science. 2024-06-22. DOI : 10.1038/s41612-024-00671-9.Quantifying functional group compositions of household fuel-burning emissions
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2024-04-22. DOI : 10.5194/amt-17-2401-2024.Gas Sensing with Rotary-Wing Nano Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10082.Turbulence and Heat exchange in the Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10837.Development of Hyphenated Analytical Techniques using spICP-MS for Online Characterization of Metallic Nanoparticles in Aerosols
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10787.Data and scripts for "Unraveling secondary ice production in winter orographic clouds through a synergy of in-situ observations, remote sensing and modeling"
2024.Diagenetic isotope exchange in biocalcites for paleoclimate reconstruction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10340.Unraveling secondary ice production in winter orographic clouds through a synergy of in-situ observations, remote sensing and modeling
Research Square. 2023-11-09. DOI : 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3502790/v1.Stability assessment of organic sulfur and organosulfate compounds in filter samples for quantification by Fourier- transform infrared spectroscopy
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2023-07-21. DOI : 10.5194/amt-16-3515-2023.Chemical evolution of primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols during daytime and nighttime
Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics. 2023-07-10. DOI : 10.5194/acp-23-7461-2023.Exploring the effects of mineral dust acidification on oxidative potential and limiting nutrient solubility
European Aerosol Conference (EAC2023), Malaga, Spain, September 3-8, 2023.Electrostatic particle collector
EPFL-TTO: US2023405602 ; EP4290209 . 2023.Bridging Native and Intrinsic Structures of Microhydrated Biomolecules by Cold Ion Spectroscopy
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10415.Snowfall microphysics: a dual-frequency and Doppler spectral radar perspective
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10242.Photobiology and metabolic interactions in the symbiotic jellyfish Cassiopea
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9761.Molecular simulations of interfacial systems: challenges, applications and future perspectives
Molecular Simulation. 2023. DOI : 10.1080/08927022.2021.1980215.Crowd-sourcing PM2.5 emission inventory data: an experience from Indian city
11th International Aerosol Conference IAC 2022, Athens, Greece, September 4-9, 2022.The framework for improving air quality monitoring over Indian cities
EGU General Assembly 2022, Austria, Vienna, May 23-27, 2022.Design and fabrication of an electrostatic precipitator for infrared spectroscopy
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2022-08-19. DOI : 10.5194/amt-15-4693-2022.Chemical evolution of primary and secondary biomass burning aerosols during daytime and nighttime
EGU General Assembly 2022, Austria, Vienna, May 23-27, 2022.Addressing impact of climate change on wind and solar energy infrastructures: the case of India
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9465.Electrostatic particle collector
US2024024897 ; EP4259337 ; WO2022122737 ; EP4011496 . 2022.Importance of 3D radiative transfer effects on high-resolution NO2 remote sensing in cities
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9675.Fragment ion-functional group relationships in organic aerosols using aerosol mass spectrometry and mid-infrared spectroscopy
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2022-05-09. DOI : 10.5194/amt-15-2857-2022.Chemical characterization of organic aerosols with a focus on biomass burning and mid-infrared spectroscopy
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9382.Molecular scale description of interfacial mass transfer in phase separated aqueous secondary organic aerosol
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2021-12-03. DOI : 10.5194/acp-21-17687-2021.Quantifying organic matter and functional groups in particulate matter filter samples from the southeastern United States - Part 2: Spatiotemporal trends
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2021-06-14. DOI : 10.5194/amt-14-4355-2021.The representativeness of ground-based air quality monitoring stations: observation and recommendation from Indian cities
EGU General Assembly 2021 (EGU 2021), Virtual Conference, April 19-30, 2021.Towards a more affordable analysis of air pollution
2021-07-28.The role of NH3 and DMA in new particle formation from ambient measurements, bias exchange metadynamics and reactive MD simulations
European Aerosol Conference (EAC 2021), Virtual Event, 30 Aug - 3 Sep, 2021.Temperature Dependent Entropy Driven Water Uptake in Phase Separated Aerosol from Steered Molecular Dynamics and Intrinsic Surface Analysis
EGU 2021, Online, April 19-30, 2021.Quantification of major particulate matter species from a single filter type using infrared spectroscopy – application to a large-scale monitoring network
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2021. DOI : 10.5194/amt-15-2685-2022.Characterization of primary and aged wood burning and coal combustion organic aerosols in an environmental chamber and its implications for atmospheric aerosols
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2021. DOI : 10.5194/acp-21-10273-2021.Estimating mean molecular weight, carbon number, and OM∕OC with mid-infrared spectroscopy in organic particulate matter samples from a monitoring network
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2021. DOI : 10.5194/amt-14-4805-2021.Method and apparatus for quantitative measurement of aerosol composition using controlled collection of airborne particles
23rd EGU General Assembly (vEGU21), [Online meeting], April 19-30, 2021.Phototransformation of Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Systems: Characterization of Long-Lived Photooxidants Derived from Dissolved Organic Matter
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8890.The complex winds of the Alps: an unseen asset for the energy transition
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9253.Presence of sub-inhibitory concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds in water: effects on bacteria and their inactivation by ozone and monochloramine
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8072.Design and fabrication of an aerosol collector for infrared spectroscopy analysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8674.Temporal and spatial analysis of ozone concentrations in Europe based on timescale decomposition and a multi-clustering approach
Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics. 2020-07-30. DOI : 10.5194/acp-20-9051-2020.Biogeography and biochemistry of bile acid 7-dehydroxylation in the mammalian gut
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7350.Statistical methods for accounting and understanding ozone trends derived from observations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7182.Water Activity from Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Kirkwood-Buff Theory
Journal Of Physical Chemistry B. 2019-12-19. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b06735.Quantifying organic matter and functional groups in particulate matter filter samples from the southeastern United States, part I: Methods
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions. 2019-10-10. DOI : 10.5194/amt-2019-144.Pathway analysis of atmospheric VOC multi-generational degradation
2019-10-05Trends of surface maximum ozone concentrations in Switzerland based on meteorological adjustment for the period 1990-2014
Atmospheric Environment. 2019-09-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.05.018.An open platform for Aerosol InfraRed Spectroscopy analysis - AIRSpec
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2019-04-12. DOI : 10.5194/amt-12-2313-2019.Atmospheric particulate matter characterization by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: a review of statistical calibration strategies for carbonaceous aerosol quantification in US measurement networks
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2019-01-28. DOI : 10.5194/amt-12-525-2019.Inactivation of waterborne viruses by ozone: Kinetics and mechanisms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9370.Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: systematic intercomparison of calibration methods for US measurement network samples
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2019. DOI : 10.5194/amt-12-2287-2019.Electrospray Film Deposition for Solvent-Elimination Infrared Spectroscopy
Applied Spectroscopy. 2019. DOI : 10.1177/0003702818821330.Statistical and physical characterization of rainfall-driven overland flow morphologies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9269.Hyphenated Analytical Techniques for Studying the Speciation and Fate of Contaminants and Nanoparticles in Waste Treatment and Bioenergy Processes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7184.Quantification of amine functional groups and their influence on OM/OC in the IMPROVE network (vol 172C, pg 124, 2018)
Atmospheric Environment. 2018-09-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.05.050.Identify homogeneous areas of similar pollution trends thanks to time series of the monitoring network in the Lombardy region
2018Alternative Methods for Assessing Air Quality and Energy Strategies for Developing Countries: A Case Study on Cuba
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9010.Thermal/optical reflectance equivalent organic and elemental carbon determined from federal reference and equivalent method fine particulate matter samples using Fourier transform infrared spectrometry
Aerosol Science and Technology. 2018. DOI : 10.1080/02786826.2018.1504161.Long-Term Strategy for Assessing Carbonaceous Particulate Matter Concentrations from Multiple Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Instruments: Influence of Spectral Dissimilarities on Multivariate Calibration Performance
Applied Spectroscopy. 2018. DOI : 10.1177/0003702818804574.Wind-packing of snow: How do wind crusts form?
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8628.Regional Similarities and NOx-Related Increases in Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol in Summertime Southeastern United States
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2018. DOI : 10.1029/2018JD028491.Ambient aerosol composition by infrared spectroscopy and partial least squares in the chemical speciation network: Multilevel modeling for elemental carbon
Aerosol Science and Technology. 2018. DOI : 10.1080/02786826.2018.1439571.Ozone time scale decomposition and trend assessment from surface observations in Switzerland
Atmospheric Environment. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.07.039.From the clouds to the ground - Effects of flow-precipitation interactions on snow distribution in complex alpine terrain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8636.Molecular phenomena in organic aerosol: water interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8198.A polarimetric radar operator to evaluate precipitation from the COSMO atmospheric model
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8408.Quantification of amine functional groups and their influence on OM/OC in the IMPROVE network
Atmospheric Environment. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.10.053.Seasonality and sources of organic particulate matter at selected IMPROVE sites in 2011 determined by infrared spectroscopy measurements
submitted. 2017-03-23.Influence of organic surfactant structure on aerosol-water interactions
3rd International Workshop on Heterogeneous Kinetics Related to Atmospheric Aerosols, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2017.Infrared Spectroscopy Analysis of Aerosols By Solvent Extraction
American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC, USA, Oct. 2017.Atomistic study of synergistic interactions among surfactants at the air-water interface
American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC, USA, Oct. 2017.Quantitative feature extraction for calibration of aerosol FT-IR spectra
European Aerosol Conference, Zürich, Switzerland, Aug. 2017.Organic aerosol composition in monitoring networks – 2: Top-down Approach
International Aerosol Modeling Algorithms Conference, Davis, CA, USA, Dec. 2017.Organic aerosol composition in monitoring networks – 1: Bottom-up Approach
International Aerosol Modeling Algorithms Conference, Davis, CA, USA, Dec. 2017.Unfolding the Köhler theory by atomistic molecular dynamics simulations
Physics and Chemistry at Fluid/Fluid Interfaces, Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Mol\'eculaire Workshop, Vienna, Austria, Dec. 2017.Understanding the composition and sources of organic aerosols from multi-site, multi-seasonal monitoring network measurements
14th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Application to Air Quality, Strasboug, France, May 2017.Analysis of Aerosol in Zurich by Infrared Spectroscopy and Statistical Modelling
Swiss Aerosol Group meeting (SAG 2017), Bern, Switzerland, 13-11-2017.Multi Seasonal Functional Group Analysis by FT-IR Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Aerosol in Zurich
European Aerosol Conference (EAC 2017), Zurich, Switzerland, 27 August - 1 September 2017.Molecular Structure Inhibiting Synergism in Charged Surfactant Mixtures: An Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
Langmuir. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03346.Air pollution risk assessment on urban agriculture
2017In Situ Calibration of Low-cost Air Quality Sensors using Artificial Neural Network
2017Natural capital data visualization to promote sustainable decision making
2017Technical note: Relating functional group measurements to carbon types for improved model-measurement comparisons of organic aerosol composition
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2017. DOI : 10.5194/acp-17-4433-2017.On the functional group composition of organic aerosol
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7578.Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: sparse methods for statistical selection of relevant absorption bands
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2016-07-28. DOI : 10.5194/amt-9-3429-2016.Sampling strategies and post-processing methods for increasing the time resolution of organic aerosol measurements requiring long sample-collection times
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2016-07-28. DOI : 10.5194/amt-9-3337-2016.Model-measurement comparison of functional group abundance in α-pinene and 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene secondary organic aerosol formation
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2016-07-18. DOI : 10.5194/acp-16-8729-2016.Technical Note: Development of chemoinformatic tools to enumerate functional groups in molecules for organic aerosol characterization
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2016-04-11. DOI : 10.5194/acp-16-4401-2016.Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance (TOR) measurements from infrared spectra: extending the predictions to different years and different sites
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2016-02-11. DOI : 10.5194/amt-9-441-2016.Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: ElnetPLS model for statistical selection of relevant absorption bands for OC predictions
Swiss Aerosol Group 2016 (SAG 2016), Bern, Switzerland, October, 14, 2016.Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: ElnetPLS model for statistical selection of relevant absorption bands for OC predictions
European Aerosol Conference 2016 (EAC 2016), Tours, France, September, 4-9, 2016.Variability of the raindrop size distribution across scales in Mediterranean rainfall
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7152.Detection of environmental glucocorticoids and investigation of their effects using the zebrafish embryo as a model
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7321.Ambient aerosol composition by infrared spectroscopy and partial least-squares in the chemical speciation network: Organic carbon with functional group identification
Aerosol Science and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1080/02786826.2016.1217389.Formation of N-nitrosodimethylamine during water disinfection with chloramine
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7196.Prediction of transformation products during ozonation of micropollutant-containing waters
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7177.Mobile Sensor Networks for Air Quality Monitoring in Urban Settings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7068.Carbon Density Is an Indicator of Mass Accommodation Coefficient of Water on Organic-Coated Water Surface
Journal Of Physical Chemistry A. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b01748.An automated baseline correction protocol for infrared spectra of atmospheric aerosols collected on polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) filters
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2016. DOI : 10.5194/amt-9-2615-2016.Time-resolved size and element analysis of gas-borne nanoparticles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6988.Functional group distribution of secondary organic aerosol generated using the Master Chemical Mechanism: similarities and discrepancies with environmental controlled chamber studies
European Aerosol Conference 2015, Milano, Italy, September 6-11, 2015.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
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