Dr Helen Davies
Wellcome Early Career Fellow
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Biography
Helen is a Wellcome Early Career Fellow working on understanding how indoor air pollutants affect people with asthma. In particular, she is developing the Lung Chemistry Model in Python (LungCHEM-Py), which is a model that tracks the fates of indoor air pollutants following inhalation, and predicts the likelihood of a room pollutant composition being able to worsen asthma symptoms. The model requires lots of experimental data, therefore, Helen has developed collaborations with the Department of Chemistry for determining in-lung pollutant behaviour, as well as the Department of Biology, for investigating the biological effects of specific pollutants.
Helen joined the department in 2021 as a postdoc with Professor Carslaw, to model the effects of cooking and cleaning on indoor air chemistry. Helen has a degree in medical sciences, a Masters by Research in Immunology, and a PhD in biophysics where she investigated the use of low temperature plasmas for aiding wound healing, and had a particular interest in simulating plasma chemistry.
