Indoor Air Quality 4.0: Bridging the Gap Between Monitoring and Public Health Action
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 488
Special Issue Editors
Interests: indoor air quality; machine learning; bioinformatics; sensors
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Interests: indoor air quality; environmental exposure and health risk assessment; persistent pollutants
2. Division of Rome, Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, c/o Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, 00147 Rome, Italy
Interests: food chemistry; analytical and environmental chemistry; contaminants; microplastics; phthalates
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is no longer a niche architectural concern; it is a critical pillar of global public health. With people spending over 90% of their time indoors, the chemical and biological composition of the air we breathe directly dictates our long-term health, cognitive performance, and economic productivity. Despite technological leaps, significant gaps remain in how we monitor, model, and mitigate complex indoor pollutants.
This Special Issue aims to consolidate the latest breakthroughs in IAQ science. We seek to move beyond simple pollutant identification toward holistic management strategies. We are particularly interested in the synergy between high-resolution sensor data and predictive modeling to create "health-first" indoor spaces.
Key Themes for Submission:
- Sensor innovation for indoor air quality monitoring.
- Advanced modeling and data analysis.
- Risk assessment.
- Emerging indoor air pollutants.
- Indoor microbiome.
- Intervention and policy.
We invite researchers from environmental science, engineering, and public health to contribute original research, comprehensive reviews, and case studies. Our goal is to create a definitive roadmap for stakeholders—from policymakers to building engineers—to design and maintain the indoor environments of the future.
Dr. Mario Lovrić
Dr. Sait C. Sofuoglu
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Avino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- volatile organic compounds
- PAH
- machine learning
- digital twin
- dust microbiome
- health risk assessment
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