Sourav Das

Sourav joined as a post-doctoral fellow in University of Toronto after completing his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, USA and bachelor’s from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His doctoral work focused on laboratory scale method development for analyzing isotope in low mass urban aerosols. In addition, he developed statistical and computational models to trace sources of urban aerosols using isotopic and ultra-trace elemental composition. He is currently working with Dr. Clare Wiseman to assess the sources, elemental composition, and toxic potential of urban road dust. Sourav aims to bring in multi-disciplinary concepts to better understand the behavior of aerosols from source to sink. 

Fields of Study

•    Aerosol Science
•    Analytical chemistry

Areas of Interest

•    Aerosol toxicity
•    Tracing of aerosol sources
•    Analytical method development
•    Source Apportionment of pollutants

Related Publications 

•    Das, S., Miller, B.V., Prospero, J. M., Gaston, C. J., Royer, H.M., Blades, E., Sealy, P. & Chellam, S.. Coupling Sr-Nd-Hf isotope ratios and elemental analysis to accurately quantify North African dust contributions to PM2.5 in a complex urban atmosphere by reducing mineral dust collinearity. Environmental Science & Technology, 56 (12), 7729–7740. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01233

•    Das, S., Miller, B. V., Prospero, J., & Chellam, S. (2022). Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic analysis of reference materials and natural and anthropogenic particulate matter sources: Implications for accurately tracing North African dust in complex urban atmospheres. Talanta, 123236.  DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123236

•    Das, S., & Chellam, S. (2020). Estimating light-duty vehicles' contributions to ambient PM2.5 and PM10 at a near-highway urban elementary school via elemental characterization emphasizing rhodium, palladium, and platinum. Science of the Total Environment, 747, 141268. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141268

•    Williamson, K., Das, S., Ferro, A. R., & Chellam, S. (2021). Elemental composition of indoor and outdoor coarse particulate matter at an inner-city high school. Atmospheric Environment, 261, 118559. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118559

•    Ahmed, M., Rappenglück, B., Das, S., & Chellam, S. (2021). Source apportionment of volatile organic compounds, CO, SO2, and trace metals in a complex urban atmosphere. Environmental Advances, 6, 100127. DOI: 10.1016/j.envadv.2021.100127