BIGI Alessandro

Alessandro Bigi is currently Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. After a PhD on hydrological modelling and monitoring, since 2007 his main research activity is focused on atmospheric composition by modelling and experimental tools. He has experience in the analysis of large datasets, which he applied to investigate patterns in atmospheric compounds for specific sites (e.g. London or Modena), wide areas (e.g. Po valley), global monitoring networks (Laj et al., 2021) or remote sites (Bianchi et al., 2021). He collaborated also on methodological works on trend detection for environmental time series (Collaud Coen et al., 2020) or aerosol source apportionment (Isolabella et al., 2024). He has experience in field and lab work related to regulatory and non-regulatory aerosol samplers (e.g. condensation particle counters, mobility particle size spectrometers, gravimetric samplers), and more recently on CO₂ analysers and sonic anemometers. Since 2017 he has been working on compact sensors, either lower cost sensor units for gas monitoring (eg. NOx, O₃) or mid cost compact monitors for aerosol (e.g. Black Carbon, nanoparticles) or gases (e.g. CO₂).