Exciting funded PhD opportunity to work on AI-enabled sensor networks for monitoring landfill sites to protect public health.

Project Title: Predicting Odorous Events: AI-Enhanced Sensor Networks for Public Health Protection near Landfills

Project highlights:
· AI-driven early warning system to forecast malodorous events, allowing public health officials to proactively protect community well-being.
· Develop a high-resolution sensor network to deliver a better understanding of community exposure to harmful landfill gases, enhancing public health risk assessments.
· Technology blueprint for a low-cost, adaptable air quality monitoring and prediction system to safeguard public health in other affected communities nationwide.

More details and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eUrHTiAz

Application deadline: 9 November 2025

An opportunity to work with the leading UK government experts at the UKHSA and HSE to make a difference to community wellbeing.

Please contact Tim Pearce, t.c.pearce@le.ac.uk, if you are interested in more information.

This new HPRU is a £5.5M partnership between the University of Leicester, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Through delivery of high-quality research, HPRUs support UKHSA in its objective to protect the health of the public, enabling it to prepare for and respond to major or emerging health protection incidents as well as building an evidence base for health protection policy and practice.
The work of the HPRU falls into three broad themes:
1.    Environmental exposures and health security
2.    Impact on human health of from the environmental and human microbial communities
3.    Regulatory and emergency responses to chemical and environmental hazards