Noora Khaleel is a lecturer at the department of Environment and Natural Science. She is currently on study leave, pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Atmospheric Chemistry at University of Malaya, Malaysia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Bangalore and a Master’s degree in Education. Her research interests include monitoring urban and indoor air quality, determining the transport pathways of air pollutants, identifying the chemical composition and source apportionment of air pollutant and health impacts of air pollution.

1. Environmental Chemistry
2. Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
3. Scientific and Analytical Skills
4. Pollution Prevention and Control
5. Science Communication
6. Research Methods

1. Project name: Urban Air Quality Monitoring of the Male’ Region

Funding: University grants and support from Ministry of Environment

Project duration: 08/10/2014 – 31/12/2021.

Position: Principal Investigator from 01/01/2020- 31/12/2021

2. Project Name: “South Asian Nitrogen Hub”, led by NERK Center for Ecology and Hydrology, UK and Funding: UKRI Global Challenges Fund, UK

Project Duration: Feb 2019-till date

Position: Co-investigator from June 2019- November 2020

3. Project name: “Building Capacity to Improve Air Quality in South Asia: Reducing PM_2.5 Through Low-Cost Sensor Network Driven Policy Decisions”, led by Duke University

Funding: Department of State, US

Project Duration: October 2020 – September 2025

Position: Principal investigator for the Maldives

Undergraduate Final Year projects

Completed projects:

Journals:

1. Noora Khaleel, James Jay Schauer, Michael Howard Bergin, Siti Jariani Mohd Jani, Prakash V Bhave, Thameem Abdul Razzaq, Md Firoz Khan

(2024) Differentiating
Local and Regional Drivers of Exceedances of WHO PM_{2. 5} Standards with a Low-Cost Sensor
Network in the Greater Male’Region (GMR), Atmospheric Pollution Research,  PP 102341.

2. Talha Saeed, Muhammad Mahad Khaliq, Michael Howard Bergin, Prakash V Bhave, Noora
Khaleel, Enna Mool, Mahesh Senarathna, Shahid Uz Zaman, Shatabdi Roy, Abdus Salam, Jas Raj
Subba, Fahim Khokhar

(2024) Sustaining Low-
Cost PM_{2. 5} Monitoring Networks in South Asia: Technical Challenges and Solutions,
JEGUsphere, PP. 1-24.

3. Noora Khaleel, Md Firoz Khan, Siti Jariani Mohd Jani

(2023) Temporal Variation of Indoor (a
residential space) and Outdoor PM2. 5 in Male’, Maldives, Special Issue on The Maldives National
Journal of Research,11. PP. 77-87

Conference Proceedings:

1. American Chemical Society Global Innovation Imperatives (ACS Gii) & 7th International Conference on Computation for Science and Technology (ICCST7) on 9th – 10th December 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia- poster titled ‘Spatiotemporal Assessment of PM_2.5 using Low-Cost Sensors in the Greater Male’ Region (GMR)”
2. Plenary Talk And Presentation titled “Air Quality and Air Quality Monitoring in the Maldives & A Comparison of the levels of PM2.5 In Male’ Region: Pre and Post Covid-19’ “at the conference on the  Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on air quality of the Monsoon Asia region: Cross-country assessment and facilitating policy, October 17th to October 20th, 2022, held by the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (IGAC) at the Monsoon Asia and Oceania Networking Group (MANGO)  
3. “THEVELI International Conference 2023” (Research for Informed Policy Decisions) on August 2022, The Maldives National University, Male’ , Maldives– abstract on paper titled “Temporal Variation of Indoor (a residential space) and Outdoor PM2. 5 in Male’, Maldives”
4. Fifth Session onUN Environment Assembly in Nairobi (online) on March 1 , 2022, presentation titled “Capacity Building for Air Quality Management in the Maldives:  Sleuthing out sources in a tropical paradise”
5. South Asian Nitrogen Hub Nitrogen Management WP 4.4 meeting,  25-26 of October 2019, Sri Lanka,  presentation titled “Green House Gas Research in the Maldives”
6. 1st Commonwealth Chemistry Posters- Building the Partnership, Bridging Chemistry Across the Commonwealth to Tackle the SDGs, 25-27 August 2020, UK, entitled: Quality of seawater at Rasfannu (maafannu artificial beach), by Saeed Ibrahim, Aishath Shaira, Noora Khaleel.