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SUMMARY:First joint Smart Living Lab and IIC seminar : Exposing the Brain:
  The cognitive impacts of indoor air pollution
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jeffrey Siegel\, University of Toronto Canada\nAbstrac
 t\nPoor indoor air is often our largest environmental health risk\, yet kn
 own chronic health consequences accumulate over a lifetime of exposure in 
 different buildings\, limiting public interest\, investment\, and regulato
 ry action.  Even with current increased focus on indoor air quality becau
 se of the pandemic\, it is likely that the attention will diminish over ti
 me\, as it has with other indoor hazards.  However\, exposures to indoor 
 contaminants also negatively influence cognitive function and high-level d
 ecision making.  These influences\, although currently poorly understood\
 , offer a sustained model for indoor air improvement with the costs for su
 ch improvements covered by the economic benefits from cognitive function i
 mprovements in environments such as schools and office buildings.  This p
 resentation discusses the current state of research on cognitive function 
 impacts including research on carbon dioxide\, volatile organic compounds\
 , and emissions from essential oil diffusers with a particular focus on un
 derstanding the fundamental connections between indoor exposures and neuro
 cognitive processes\n\nShort bio\nJeffrey Siegel\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of
  Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto and is a Bahen
 /Tanenbaum Chair in Civil Engineering. He holds joint appointments at the 
 Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Physical & Enviro
 nmental Sciences.  He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fro
 m the University of California\, Berkeley as well as a B.Sc. from Swarthmo
 re College.  He is internationally recognized for his work on indoor air 
 quality generally and air cleaning specifically and is a fellow of ASHRAE 
 and a member of the Academy of Fellows of the International Society for In
 door Air and Climate (ISIAQ).  His research interests include healthy and
  sustainable buildings\, filtration and air cleaning\, ventilation and ind
 oor air quality in residential and commercial buildings\, control of indoo
 r particulate matter\, and the impact of building systems on indoor microb
 iology and chemistry.   He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal 
 articles on indoor air quality and related subjects and has been active in
  disseminating information about filtration and ventilation solutions for 
 COVID-19.\n\nSandwiches offered at the end of the seminar.\n\nZoom link pr
 ovided on demand at adeline.guelat@epfl.ch\n 
LOCATION:HBL 0 21A https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==HBL%200%2021A
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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