Biography

Johansson is Professor at the Atmospheric Science unit of the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, and also work as air quality expert at the Environment and Health Administration (EHA) of the city of Stockholm. During the past 30 years his focus is on urban air pollution, anthropogenic emissions, air pollution monitoring, atmospheric dispersion modelling, photochemistry, population exposure and health impacts. He has been working closely with epidemiologists, atmospheric scientists as well as urban planners in many national and international research projects. He is supervising PhD and Master students and responsible for a PhD/Master course on “Air Quality Outdoors and Indoors”, which deals with emissions, air quality management and health risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses. He has been advisor to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and collaborated with reference laboratories in Nordic countries. He has been working in the expert panel of EU’s Green Capital and Green Leaf award. In the City he work closely with local and national authorities on air quality issues. His unit at the Environment and Health Administration in Stockholm is responsible for operating an air quality management system not only for the city, but for an association, that includes 50 municipalities, energy production companies and regional governmental agencies. He has written or co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed scientific publications (h-index = 43; average number of citations per article = 60) and more than 200 technical reports.