Hu, Dr Dawei

Chamber Manager

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University of Manchester

School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

The University of Manchester

Simon Building

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9PL

 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2817-8180

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https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/dawei-hu/  

Dawei Hu received his PhD in Environmental Science from Fudan University in 2012, with research focusing on the hygroscopicity and optical properties of aerosols. He subsequently completed his first postdoctoral position (2012–2014) at CNRS in Orléans, France, in Dr Wahid Mellouki’s group, where he focused on outdoor (Helios) and indoor chamber simulations.

In January 2015, he joined the Centre for Atmospheric Science within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester. Since then, he has worked on a range of research projects, including the investigation of aerosol water uptake (CCN_Vol), the optical properties of black and brown carbon (SASSO), and the effects of air pollution on human cognition (HiP-tox). He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Since February 2026, he has also served as Chamber Manager within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), where his research focuses on the characterisation of pollutants from diverse real-world sources using the Manchester Aerosol Chamber. He has developed protocols for generating key indoor and outdoor air pollutants—including emissions from cooking, wood combustion, diesel engines, and cleaning products—for use in human exposure studies. This work has also been featured by the BBC.