Ioar Rivas
Description
Her main research interests are indoor and outdoor air quality, exposure assessment (including personal exposure and inhaled doses), and impacts on health of air pollutants and other environmental and lifestyle factors through cohort studies and epidemiological time series analyses. Member of the Steering Committee of the Barcelona Life study (BiSC) cohort. She is currently the PI of RESPIRE (Canadian Government NFRFE-2023-00603) and HARMONIE (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02 Project 101238943) projects and the co-PI of EMMA (PID2024-159870OB-I00). Dr. Rivas earned her BSc on Environmental Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (UAB) in 2008 and PhD on Environmental Science and Technology (UAB) in 2015. After postdoctrral periods at the University of Surrey and King’s College London (KCL, United Kingdom) and at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal, Spain), she joined IDAEA-CSIC in 2024. Supervisor of 6 ongoing PhD Theses.
Works
Association between per- and polyfluoroalkyl exposures and postpartum psychological symptoms: Evidence from two population-based pregnancy cohorts – 2026.09
Prenatal air pollution exposure and placental biomarkers of oxidative stress and ageing: results from the BiSC cohort – 2026.08
Maternal Exposure to Air Pollution and Fetal Growth: Comparison of Three Exposure Modelling Approaches – 2026.05
Effects of the interaction between walking activity and air pollution on daily respiratory symptoms in people with COPD – https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2025-224411 – 2026.05
Prediction of daily home indoor temperature and relative humidity using a deep ensemble machine learning approach – 2026.05