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
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
Impact of prenatal exposure to airborne particulate matter on local functional connections in the cerebral cortex of neonates – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121911 – 2026.05
Correlates of pregnant women’s active and passive mobility: A smartphone-based tracking study in Barcelona, Spain – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101196 – 2026.04
Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Nonpersistent Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Angiogenic Biomarkers, Placental Function, and Fetal Growth – 2026.03