Hugo Denier van der Gon

Dr. Hugo Denier van der Gon (1961) is Senior researcher at TNO, The Netherlands. He has over 20 years’ experience in measuring and estimating emissions from anthropogenic sources. After his study Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, Netherlands he did his PhD on Methane emissions from rice fields at Wageningen University and the International Rice Research Institute (The Philippines), followed by a postdoc position investigating the possibilities to constrain regional methane source strengths using upscaling and downscaling from local field studies to global atmospheric models. Since 2001 he works at TNO as a Senior Emission Inventory Expert. He combines emission inventories, especially of air pollutants, with air quality research to optimize the emission information for air quality models and assessments, especially for particulate matter. He has been work package leader emissions in various EU FP projects (EUCAARI, MEGAPOLI) and is responsible for the European anthropogenic emission data in the Copernicus atmospheric core service (EU FP7 MACC, MACC-II). He is a steering committee member of the Global Emission Inventory Activity (GEIA) and Co-coordinator of Subgroup 3 urban emission inventories of the Forum for Air Quality Modeling in Europe (FAIRMODE).