Marica is an Environmental Psychologist with research interests in psychosocial drivers of pro-environmental behaviours, as well as the impact of built and natural environments on health and wellbeing. She is passionate about carrying interdisciplinary and community-engaged work to address key sustainable development goals.  

Marica leads the BehaviAir project and oversees the participatory, behavioural, and outreach activities.  

Dean is an atmospheric chemist whose research interests include air quality, low cost sensors, and developing spectroscopic instruments to detect trace gases and aerosols. He loves clean air and wants to contribute to improving air quality in Ireland and around the world.

Dean is leading the development of air quality forecasts and analysis of air quality interventions.

Denise is very committed to practice based research. As a Health Promotion practitioner Denise has a particular interest in behaviour change and the circumstances and prompts that nudge individuals and systems to change. Through her role as Healthy Cities Coordinator, Denise engages with many partners in experimental approaches to promote health in an urban setting. That is why Denise is so enthusiastic to collaborate with research experts as the research arises from a structured academic process and the outcome is shared with a wider community thus having a greater impact. 

In BehaviAir, Denise supports the interagency collaboration, to connect the researchers with the communities of interest, to seek opportunities to connect the research to health outcomes and to advise on effective good practice health promotion approaches to behaviour change 

Roberto is a social scientist focusing on the debate about the design of technology, platforms and services to support empowerment, inclusion and sustainability, with attention to gender and other inequalities. He usually adopts participatory approaches aimed at putting different stakeholders in dialogue.  

In BehaviAir, Roberto is involved in both the theoretical reflection and the activities of community engagement and co-creation of a platform.  

Chaitra is a master’s degree graduate in Data Science and Analytics from MTU.

Chaitra is part of the BEHAVI-AIR team focusing on analysing air quality data and using machine learning models to forecast air pollution.