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Kumar, P., Le Den C. 2025 UGPN Research Collaboration Funds (RCF) & RECLAIM Update In, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 23 - 26 March 2025

Kumar, P. 2025 Working with established Networks: RECLAIM Network Plus In , Institute of Physics, London, UK, 19 March 2025

Kumar, P. 2025 Keynote: Indoor Environmental Quality in Schools: Global Perspective In , ITT Delhi, Delhi, India, 14 And 15 February 2025

Kumar, P. 2025, Chief Guest In , Department of Environmental Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, 13 February 2025

Kumar, P. 2024 Poster presentation In Air Quality in the 21st Century, Royal Society, UK, 9 December 2024

Kumar, P. 2024 Building the Evidence (Data acquisition) In Addressing Sweltering Cities with a coherent Urban Climate Research Infrastructure, AWS Brisbane office, Brisbane, Australia, 2 December 2024

Kumar, P. 2024 Keynote: We All Breathe the Same Air In , We The Curious, Bristol, UK, 26 November 2024

Kumar, P. 2024 Urban Greening for Pollution Control and Heat Mitigation: Insights from the RECLAIM Network Plus In , York Radisson Hotel, York, UK, 13 November 2024

Kumar, P. 2024 Urban Greening for pollution and heat abatement In International Forum on Urban and Building Environments, Chongqing University, Radisson Blu Hotel, Chongqing, China, 4-5 September, 2024

Kumar, P. 2024. Cities, Climate Adaptation & RECLAIM Network Plus In Healthy People and Healthy Planet, Imperial College London, Data Science Institute, South Kensington Campus, 25 July 2024

Kumar, P., Debele, S., Hama, S. 2024. GreenCities Third Workshop, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisca e Ciencais Atmosfericas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 08 June 2024

Kumar, P. 2024. Climate Change, Nature-Based Solutions & the need of Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, 12 January 2024

Kumar, P. 2024. Co-benefits of Urban Greening, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China, 11 January 2024

Kumar, P. 2024. Nature-based solutions to mitigate environmental and climate challenges faces by cities In International Forum on Urban Built Environment and Thermal Resilience under Low-Carbon Transition Mode, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, 8 January 2024

Kumar, P., 2023. In
, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, 6th - 8th December 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. In , Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster, London, UK, 5 December 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. ; ;; Closing Address  In , 麻豆视频, Guildford, UK, 11 September 2023

Debele, S., 2023. , In , 麻豆视频, Guildford, UK, 11 September 2023

Kooloth-Valappil, A., 2023. , In , 麻豆视频, Guildford, UK, 11 September 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Unlocking the Potential of Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Communities under Changing Environmental Conditions, In, Otaniemi, Finland, 14-18 August 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Air Quality: The Impact on Children鈥檚 Respiratory Health, In , 麻豆视频, Guildford, 20 June 2023

Sahani, J., 2023. , Zero Carbon Guildford, Guildford, 10 June 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Health impacts of gas impacts, asthma association, brain development issues in vulnerable populations at risk in the UK In , online, 8 June 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Update on Citizen science initiative: Heat-Cool program and Experiment in Parks, In UKRI / NERC / FAPESP GreenCities Second Workshop, Instituto de Astronomia, Geof铆sica e Ci锚ncias Atmosf茅ricas, Universidade de S茫o Paulo (IAG-USP), Brazil, 1 June 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Unlocking the Potential of Nature-Based Solutions: The RECLAIM Network Plus & The Institute for Sustainability, In ,  University of S茫o Paulo, Brazil, 31 May 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Greenery in urban areas: a useful mitigating approach? In , online, 26 May 2023

Debele, S., 2023. SUSINet presentations, In , Sir James Matthews Building, Guildhall Square, Southampton, 26 May 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. Nature, Communities and Health, In , WWF Living Planet Centre, Woking, 31 March 2023

Kukadia, V., Kooloth-Valappil, A., Kumar, P., 2023. Air pollution mitigation and resulting indoor: outdoor air quality in and around three London Schools, In ,  IQAM Conference, Coin Street Conference Centre, London, 28th March 2023

Kumar, P., 2023. , In , Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality Webinar, 14 March 2023.

Kumar, P., 2023. Interventions for improving indoor and outdoor air quality in and around schools, In . St Matthew's Conference Centre, London, 9 March 2023.

Hama, S., 2023. CO-TRACE project, In . St Matthew's Conference Centre, London, 9 March 2023.

Kumar, P., 2023. , In , Delhi, India, 24-25 February 2023.

Kumar, P., 2023. Environmental monitoring for healthy cities 鈥 importance, technologies, and success/failure cases, In International Colloquium on Smart Healthy Cities: Building Healthy and Equitable Cities through Smart and Participatory Technologies, Korea, 14 February 2023.

Kooloth Valappil, A., 2022. Learnings from air quality improvement measures in three Schools in London, , 1 December, 2022

Kumar, P., 2022. What is clean air research? , ZERO Carbon Guildford, Guildford, UK, 10 May 2022.

Omidvarborna, H., and Kumar, P., 2022. Global Home - what is the future of where we live? , ZERO Carbon Guildford, Guildford, UK, 10 May 2022.

Kumar, P., 2022.  In  and , Singapore (Virtual Conference), 27-29 March 2022.

Omidvarborna, H., 2022. Low-Cost Air Pollution Sensing Technology and its Applications at GCARE/GLL. In Environmental Science Research Division (ESRD) seminars, University of Reading, 13 January 2022, UK 13:00-14:00.

Kumar, P., 2021. Indoor air quality, ventilation and the risk of COVID-19 airborne transmission in school classrooms: Insights from COTRACE project. In , IIT Guwahati, India, 16-18 December 2021.

Kumar, P., 2021. Greening of cities for air pollution and climate risk abatements. In, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 31 October 鈥 2 November 2021.

Kumar, P., 2021. . In , Aston University Birmingham, 18 November 2021. 

Kumar, P., 2021. . In , Chongqing, 4-7 November 2021.

Kumar, P., 2021. Greening of cities for air pollution and climate risk abatements. In , Shenzhen, China, 31 October - 2 November 2021.

Beatley, T., Kumar, P., 2021. . In CIBSE Resilient Cities Group Conference, 14 September 2021. 

Kumar, P., Russell-Jones, R., Moarif, S., 2021. Mitigating the Health Impacts of Air Pollution. In 鈥 Virtual Conference, 30-31 March 2021.

Kumar, P., 2021. Next-Generation Environmental Sensing for Local To Global Scale Health Impact Assessment (NEST-SEAS): a quadrilateral RCF project awarded in 2016. In  RCF Outcomed and Q&A Session, 25 March 2021.

Kumar, P., 2020. Air quality and public health challenges. In , 11 December 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. The Growing World of Low-cost Sensors for Air Quality Management. In 5th Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management IICAQM-2020 Measurement, Modelling, Health Risk and Public Policy, 9 - 11 December 2020.

Kumar, P., Debele, S., M盲kel盲, A., 2020. . In 2nd OPERANDUM webinar, UNESCO & OPERANDUM, 18 November 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. Aerosols, Indoor Air Quality and COVID-19. In , The Aerosol Society,  5 November 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. Clean Air, Public Health, Citizen Science and Policies. In , Croatian Meteorological Society, 4 November 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. Green Infrastructure Implementation for Passive Mitigation of Air Pollution. In VAIBHAV SUMMIT-Vertical: V11 鈥 Environmental Sciences-Horizontal Session on Hotspot Air Quality Management- War Forward Environmental Sciences, Online Panel Discussion, 17 October 2020 . 

Kumar, P., 2020. The rise of low-cost sensing for managing air pollution in cities. In . Annual conference organised by the , an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Cambridge, 15 October 2020. 

Kumar, P., 2020. Case studies: trains, schools, and supermarkets. In . Symposium under Royal Society鈥檚 RAMP Task 7, 08 September 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. . In Green Infrastructure for Health, Well-being, and Climate Resilience. London Climate Change Partnership. Webinar, 02 July 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. Airborne transmissions Indoors. In SHARP - COVID-19 research at the 麻豆视频. 麻豆视频, UK. Web conference, 23 June 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. Aerosols, Air Pollution and COVID-19. In Air Quality in Urban Built Environment. Society for Indoor Environment, Environment and COVID-19 Webinar Series. Web Conference, 20 June 2020.

Kumar, P., 2020. COVID-19 and Air Pollution. In Children & Young Environmentalist Conference on Environmental Protection (CoEP 2020). Panjab University, India. Web Conference, 5 June 2020.

Kumar P., 2019. Measurements, Sensors, Modelling and Mitigation. Invited Lecture, 13th August 2019, University of Medellin, Colombia.

Kumar P., 2019. Clean Air Research at Surrey - Measurements, Sensors, Modelling and Mitigation (Invited talk). 15th October 2019, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Tiwari A., Abhijith K.V., Kumar P., 2019. Green Infrastructure Experiments & Simulation: Findings from the iSCAPE Project. 2nd Summer School, 16 September 2019, Hasselt, Belgium.

Kumar, P., 2016. Pollution exposure in cities. 2nd UGPN Workshop on Air Quality, Climate and Health. 8 April 2016, North Carolina State University, USA.

Kumar, P., 2016. Green infrastructure and Air Quality. Green Infrastructure Summit. 6 April 2016, North Carolina State University, USA.

Kumar, P., 2016. Exhaust and non-exhaust particle emissions in middle-east. 15-16 March 2016, Qatar Air Quality Workshop. Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar.

Kumar, P., 2016. I, me, myself and my exposure to on-road pollution. 19 June 2015. 1st UGPN Workshop on Air Quality, Climate and Health. 19-20 January 2016, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Kumar, P., 2015. Pollution exposure in transport microenvironments. 19 June 2015. CAPTEN Workshop NCSU Raleigh, USA.

Kumar, P., 2015. Ultrafine particles and associated health implications in city microenvironments. 28 May 2015. University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Kumar, P., 2015. Ultrafine particle emissions and exposure in developing countries. 15 April 2015. University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Kumar, P., 2015. Comparison of pollution exposure in US and UK cities. 18 September 2014. UGPN Workshop NCSU Raleigh, USA.

Kumar, P., 2014. Particulate emissions and public health in developing countries. 18 September 2014. IIT Madras, India.

Kumar, P., 2014. Sixteen different invited presentations at 8 different South Indian Universities (Anna, Hindustan, VIT Vellore, Rajalaxmi, Saveetha University, SRM University,....) on teaching practices and personal/ departmental research. Delegate of British Council Education and Research Mission to Southern India. 16-18 September 2014.

Kumar, P., 2014. Teaching for learning and learning from teaching for research. Surrey ExCites Conference, 8 January 2014.

Kumar, P., 2013. Flow of nanoparticles in and around the road vehicles. Cambridge Particle Meeting, Cambridge, 24 May 2013.

Kumar, P., 2013. The world of nanoparticles around us! Particle Technology Knowledge Cluster (PKTC), Surrey, 30 May 2013.

Kumar, P., 2013. Peer-reviewing, feedback and assessment in engineering teaching. In: Workshop on feedback and assessment. Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education (CITE), University of Southampton, UK, 29 May 2013. 

Kumar, P., 2013. Dispersion of nanoparticles in and around the vehicles. Kings College London, UK. Seminar Series, 6 March 2013.

Kumar, P., 2012. The world of nanoparticles in urban environment! Peking University, Beijing China, 13 December 2012.

Kumar, P., 2012. Nanoparticles in urban outdoor settings. Characteristics and impacts of air pollution - recent advances and future direction. University of Birmingham, UK, 30 May 2012. [plenary]

Kumar, P., 2012. Airborne nanoparticles in Asian and European environments. Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Delhi, India, 18 April 2012.

Kumar, P., 2012. Wind flows and air pollution research at Surrey University. National Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, India, 16 April 2012.

Kumar, P., 2012. Dynamics of nanoparticles around us. TERI University, Delhi, India, 12 April 2012.

Kumar, P., 2012. Airborne nanoparticles around us - how are they formed, dispersed and inhaled? Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 11 April 2012.

Kumar, P., 2012. The nanoparticles we breathe in our daily lives.... Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 9 April 2012.

Kumar, P., 2011. Atmospheric nanoparticles: Characteristics, dispersion and health implications. The Institution of Engineers, Roorkee, India, 18 April 2011.

Kumar, P., 2011. Atmospheric nanoparticles and their dispersion behaviour in the urban environments. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 18 April 2011.

Kumar, P., 2011. Dynamics and dispersion modelling of atmospheric nanoparticles in urban microenvironment environments. TERI University, Delhi, India, 14 April 2011.

Kumar, P., 2011. Dispersion of atmospheric nanoparticles in local and microtransport urban environments. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 13 April 2011.

Kumar, P., 2010. Road transport and urban air quality: Current research and areas for future collaborations. Transport Research Laboratory, UK, 17 November 2010.

Kumar, P. 2010. Measurements and modelling of the dispersion of nanoparticles in urban street canyons. , Billerica, Massachusetts, 23 June 2010.

Kumar, P., 2010. . : Metrology of Airborne nanoparticles, Standardisation and Applications, NPL Teddington, UK, 8鈥9 June 2010.

Kumar, P., 2008. Dispersion of nanoparticles in the urban environment. Imperial College, London, UK, 11 November 2008.

Kumar, P., 2008. Measurements and dispersion modelling of traffic鈥揺mitted particles in the urban environment. National Environment Research Institute, Denmark 7 May 2008.

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