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Thibaud Sarica

Name: Thibaud Sarica
Email: t.sarica@northeastern.edu
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave (400SN)
Boston MA 02115-5000


LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thibaud-sarica
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8250-9852

Education

Ph.D., Environmental Science and Technology, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Marne-la-Vallee, France, 2023

Master's degree, Sciences of Atmosphere and Climate, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France, 2019

Bachelor's degree, Physics Major, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France, 2017

Research Interests & Specialties:

Research interests include air quality modeling at regional and local scales; atmospheric chemistry and aerosol dynamics; model development; road traffic emissions and their representations in air quality models. Other research interests include the development and use of stationary and mobile solutions to measure hyperlocal air pollution and evaluate model performance.

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University, USA, July 2023 - present

PhD student and candidate, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France, December 2019 - June 2023

Work-study master's student, Totalenergies Solaize Research Center, France, August 2018 - October 2019

Publications

Sarica, T., Maison, A., Roustan, Y., Ketzel, M., Jensen, S. S., Kim, Y., Chaillou, C., and Sartelet, K. (2023). Modelling concentration heterogeneities in streets using the street-network model MUNICH. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-70

Sarica, T., Sartelet, K., Roustan, Y., Kim, Y., Lugon, L., Marques, B., D'Anna, B., Chaillou, C., and Larrieu, C. (2023). Sensitivity of pollutant concentrations in urban streets to asphalt and traffic-related emissions. Environmental Pollution, 332, 121955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121955

Kim, Y., Lugon, L., Maison, A., Sarica, T., Roustan, Y., Valari, M., Zhang, Y., Andre, M., and Sartelet, K. (2022). MUNICH v2.0: a street-network model coupled with SSH-aerosol (v1.2) for multi-pollutant modelling. Geoscientific Model Development, 15(19), 7371-7396. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7371-2022

Marques, B., Kostenidou, E., Valiente, A. M., Vansevenant, B., Sarica, T., Fine, L., Temime-Roussel, B., Tassel, P., Perret, P., Liu, Y., Sartelet, K., Ferronato, C., and D'Anna, B. (2022). Detailed Speciation of Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds in Exhaust Emissions from Diesel and Gasoline Euro 5 Vehicles Using Online and Offline Measurements. Toxics, 10(4), 184. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics10040184

Conference Proceedings

Sarica, T., Sartelet, K., Roustan, Y., Kim, Y., Lugon, L., Andre, M., Marques, B., D'Anna, B., Chaillou, C., and Larrieu, C. (2022). Modelling Pollutant Concentrations in Streets: A Sensitivity Analysis to Asphalt and Traffic Related Emissions. 287-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12786-1_39

Code

Sarica, T., Pollemission: computational tool for air pollutant emission factors from traffic (2.0), 2021, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5721253

Contributed Conference Presentations

Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Sarica, T., He, L., Firoze, A., Aliaga, D., Wong, M. M. F., Fung, J. C. H., Ching, J., Kim, Y., Sartelet, K. (16 to 18 October 2023). Hyperlocal Air Quality Modeling Using Urban Morphological Data from the World Urban Data Analysis and Portal Tools and Digital Synthetic City. 22nd Annual CMAS, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Sarica, T., Kim, Y., Roustan, Y., Sartelet, K., and Zhang, Y. (16 to 18 October 2023). Modeling Deposition and Resuspension Processes in the Discretized Version of the Street-Network Model MUNICH. 22nd Annual CMAS, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Sarica, T., Maison, A., Roustan, Y., Ketzel, M., Jensen, S. S., Kim, Y., and Sartelet, K. (9 to 10 March 2023). Development of MUNICH: Introduction of concentration heterogeneities in the street. 3rd Street-in-Grid and Urban Air Quality Modeling Symposium, Champs-sur-Marne, France.

Sarica, T., Sartelet, K., Roustan, Y., Chaillou, C., and Larrieu, C. (10 December 2021). Atmospheric Chemical Modelling of Air Quality in Street Networks. Aramco Seminar - Air Quality Transport Challenges, Paris, France.

Sarica, T., Sartelet, K., Roustan, Y., Kim, Y., Lugon, L., Andre, M., Marques, M., D'Anna, B., Chaillou, C., Norsic, C., Larrieu, C., and Laigle, E. (18 to 22 October 2021). Modelling pollutant concentrations in streets: a sensitivity analysis to traffic related emissions. International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application (ITM), Barcelona, Spain.