Dac-Loc Nguyen
Group Leader Human Exposure Science"I am interested in investigating the connection between airborne particulate matters from anthropogenic and biogenic emissions and their effects on human health. Those emissions can play an important role in the development of chronic communicable and non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer and respiratory diseases. Thus, it is important to provide more precise and personal human-exposure data for disease prevention and to understand the underlying mechanisms on how these environmental factors affect human health."
"I am interested in investigating the connection between airborne particulate matters from anthropogenic and biogenic emissions and their effects on human health. Those emissions can play an important role in the development of chronic communicable and non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer and respiratory diseases. Thus, it is important to provide more precise and personal human-exposure data for disease prevention and to understand the underlying mechanisms on how these environmental factors affect human health."
Research Areas
Dac-Loc Nguyen graduated from Da Nang University of Polytechnic, Vietnam in 2009, and completed his master degree at Aerosol laboratory at National Central University, Taiwan. In the end of 2016, he has pursued his PhD at Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany. He is interested in the fields of Aerosols, Environmental Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry. His work on biomass burning pollution is related to health and climate effects, thus connecting with different fields of science. His studies deal with topics including biomass, megacity, ambient air and atmosphere, which intersect with Environmental Chemistry.
His studies focus on measurements of inorganic and organic aerosol composition and on quantifying the emitted source contribution on aerosol loadings in both field and laboratory experiments. He has conducted assessments of air quality and investigated the potential sources of adverse particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) from biomass burning emission in the North of Vietnam through the grass-root 7SEAS project. Furthermore, his PhD study in the “Cooperation Group of Comprehensive Molecular Analytics – CMA" focused on the chemical characterization of fresh and aged aerosols in a simulated smoke chamber study and explored the specific markers for the respective source and combustion condition.
At the moment, he is planning an intensive aerosol sampling campaign and subsequent laboratory analysis, focusing on airborne bioaerosols (including virus, bacteria, and pollen) in the context of indoor/outdoor air quality and human exposure to bioaerosols.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Aerosol sampling techniques Analytical ChemistryData AnalysisAtmospheric/ambient ChemistryEnvironmental Chemistry
Professional Career
Technical Manager at Institute of Environmental Medicine, Helmholtz Munich
PhD student at Comprehensive Molecular Analytics (CMA), Helmholtz Munich
Junior researcher at Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology / Hanoi, Vietnam
Master degree with thesis: “Chemical characterization and source identification of aerosol in northern Vietnam”