Dr Alexander Los
Senior Specialist in Urban Environment and Climate Change, Assistant Professor
- Email address
- los@ihs.nl
- Phone
- +31107546384
Dr. Alexander Los is a climatologist and expert in urban air pollution and heat extremes. He focuses his research on sustainable urban transition processes to mitigate climate change, related to air pollutant and greenhouse gas emission reduction and energy transition. Dr. Los coordinates the Urban Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change Master track of the Urban Management and Development MSc programme and teaches topics such as climate change, microclimate extremes, air pollution, and energy transition.
Besides teaching, Alexander participates in research projects funded by ICLEI, Google.org, BOLD Cities and the Convergence Programme to support communities in their effort to understand air pollution urgencies and to make the energy transition process more inclusive. Alexander’s experience in climate change, air quality and remote-sensing is built on a consequent combination of modelling and field work to study atmospheric photochemistry, effects of clouds on the Earth’s climate and solar resource forecasting.
Alexander obtained his PhD at the University of Utrecht in 2001. He worked as a post-doc researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and as a research associate at the University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands. As managing director and senior scientist in private companies, he developed scientific instruments for climate research and solar energy.
| Rupp, R., Los, A., Rozema, J., (2024). Watt's in it for you? Unpacking the role of renewable energy cooperatives in the Netherlands in energizing consumer engagement in: Energy Research and Social Science 120, 103883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103883 |
| Los, A. (2024). Can AI help to battle climate change? Cities Today. |
| Richie, C., Garcia-Gomez, P., Thio, H. B., Rwei, A., Joo, C., Staufer, U., Muratore, D., Mastrangeli, M., Dedoussi, I., Exel, J. van; Ourti, T. van; Bonfrer, I, Gianoli, A., Los, A. Horst, G. T. J. van der; 5, Hagen, M. van, Burdorf, L. Been, J. V., Hermans, M., Stadhouders, R., Rottier, R. J., 6, Bornioli, A., Chaves, I. Dik, W. A. (2024). Research on the health impact of climate must consider distributive justice and environmental sustainability, PLOS climate, 3(6), e0000432, (First online 17 June 2024) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000431 |
| Gerrits, L., Los, A. & Pagliarin, S. (2023). Citizen science in spatial and environmental problems, in: K. Van Assche, R. Beunen & M. Duineveld (Eds.), Elgar encyclopedia in urban and regional planning and design (Elgar encyclopedias in the social sciences series). Chelmsford: Edward Elgar, (pp. 59-62). |