Elisephane Irankunda
Postdoctoral Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD in Environmental Science, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science and BSc in Computational Physics, University of Rwanda, Kigali City, Rwanda
Research Websites: Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental ScienceS (ACCESS)
Research Areas: Urban network-environment interactions ; air quality monitoring; air quality modelling; transportation networks; impact and risk assessment; climate change
Elisephane Irankunda is a Postdoctoral Associate at Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ACCESS), New York University Abu Dhabi. Irankunda was a lecturer and research scientist at The East African University (TEAU) - School of Computer Science and Information Technology from 2019-2024. Prior to this, he was a Research Scientist in the Atmospheric Science and Air Quality Division at the Research Institute for Sustainability and Disaster Management based on High-Performance Computing (ISUMADECIP) at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Irankunda completed PhD in Environmental Science (June 2024) from Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He also has an MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science (2018) and a BSc in Computational Physics (2015) from the University of Rwanda, Department of Physics, Kigali City, Rwanda. Irankunda has presented his works at international conferences and has also conducted research in environmental science in various countries, including Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Japan, Romania, China, and currently in the United Arab Emirates.
Research Summary
Currently under the Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ACCESS) – Research Institute, NYUAD, Irankunda is working on the interactions between urban networks and their environment through a combination of new observations, data analysis, and modeling. The potential focus areas are: air quality and pollution, and transportation networks.