Role

Paul Quincey is a Principal Research Scientist at NPL and he leads airborne particle measurement research within the Environmental Measurement science area. In addition to his role at NPL, Paul is an ex officio member of Defra's Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG).

Current interests

Paul leads the science within the Chemical and Biological Metrology Programme on airborne particle measurements, including the regulated metrics for mass concentration PM₁₀ and PM_2.5, particle number concentration and size distribution, elemental carbon/organic carbon, and 'soot' type measurements such as black carbon and black smoke. Linked to this work, he is involved in many national and international collaborative measurement activities through, for example, Defra, DfT, CCQM, EURAMET and EU projects.

Biography

Paul has a BA in Physics and a DPhil in superconducting materials, both from Oxford University. He has over eighteen years' experience in gas and particle metrology and standardisation. He works with Defra and the Environment Agency and is currently responsible for the scientific aspects of two major contracts for Defra: the UK Particle Network, and the UK Black Carbon Network. He has previously worked on the UK Hydrocarbon Network and the Automatic Urban and Rural Network, which monitors most regulated gas pollutants and also PM₁₀ and PM_2.5.

He is a member of the CEN working groups for ambient air measurements of PM_2.5 and PM₁₀, elemental carbon/organic carbon, and particle number concentration, and of the ISO group addressing particle size distribution and number concentration for general applications including vehicle emissions. He is an active member of the AirMonTech (EU Framework Programme 7) project, which is recommending new air quality monitoring requirements to the European Commission, and is also involved in the demonstration of equivalence of automated monitoring to the manual method for airborne particulate monitoring.

Paul is a Member of Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist.

Recent publications

• The relationship between black carbon concentration and black smoke: A more general approach
  Heal, Mathew R.; Quincey, Paul
  Atmospheric Environment, Vol 54, pages 538-544, 2012
• Black Smoke and Black Carbon: Further investigation of the relationship between these ambient air metrics
  Quincey, Paul; Butterfield, David; Green, David; et al
  Atmospheric Environment, Vol 45, Issue 21, pages 3528-3534, 2011
• Variability of levels of PM, black carbon and particle number concentration in selected European cities
  Cristina Reche, Xavier Querol, Andrés Alastuey, Mar Viana, Jorge Pey, Teresa Moreno, Sergio Rodríguez, Yenny González, Rocío Fernández-Camacho, Ana M. Sánchez de la Campa, Jesús de la Rosa, Manuel Dall’Osto, André S.H. Prevot, Christoph Hueglin, Roy M. Harrison, and Paul Quincey
  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol 11, Issue 13, pages 6207-6227, 2011
• An evaluation of measurement methods for organic, elemental and black carbon in ambient air monitoring sites
  Quincey, Paul; Butterfield, David; Green, David; et al
  Atmospheric Environment, Vol 43, Issue 32, pages 5085-5091, 2009
• Measurement and mitigation of response discontinuities of a widely used condensation particle counter
  Gilham, Richard J. J.; Quincey, Paul G.
  Journal of Aerosol Science, Vol 40, Issue 7, pages 633-637, 2009

Contact details

Email: paul.quincey@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6788