About the Author

Alex De Visscher is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Air Quality and Pollution Control Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. In 2011-2012 he was Visiting Professor of Applied Chemistry at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. He has a broad range of research interests in chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental science, and environmental engineering. He published about 50 articles in a wide range of scientific journals, and is editor and main author of the 95th volume of the IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series, on alkaline earth carbonates. In 2011 he won the Killam Emerging Research Leader Award of the University of Calgary. His first book, Air Dispersion Modeling: Foundations and Applications was published in 2013 by Wiley.