Hai Guo

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Title: A synergistic ozone-climate control to address emerging ozone pollution challenges

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Biography

Professor Hai Guo completed his PhD study in Australia. He is currently a Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He is Fellow of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Prof. Guo’s research interests include atmospheric chemistry, organic aerosols and their precursors, ozone pollution, bioaerosol transmission and indoor chemistry. He is among the first to have developed a photochemical trajectory model and a photochemical box model to understand atmospheric ozone formation in Asia. He is also the first person in Hong Kong to establish a world-class laboratory instrument system to analyse trace volatile organic compounds (VOCs). He has developed offline and semi-online samplers for measuring ambient acidic ultrafine particles. Prof. Guo is an investigator of more than 70 research projects. He has published more than 180 papers, with an h-index of 59 on Google scholar with total citation of ~12,300, and 54 on Scopus. He has been ranked the World’s Top 2% Highly Cited Scientist in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences in 2020-2022. Prof. Guo is the VOC expert group member of the World Meteorological Organization – Global Atmosphere Watch. He is the Chairman of the International Expert Workshop on VOCs 2023. Furthermore, Prof. Guo is Associate Editor of Science of the Total Environment, and Editor of Aerosol and Air Quality Research. Prof. Guo has won many prizes including a second prize of natural science issued by China’s Ministry of Education, first prize of science and technology in Guangdong province, golden medal and a special merit award at the 71st International Trade Fair for Ideas, Inventions & New Products in Germany, Winner of the Australia China Alumni Awards for Research and Science, and eight-time Dean awards for outstanding research and publication at PolyU. 

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