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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
81
Citations
20777
World Ranking
931
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Casimiro Pio is affiliated with the University of Aveiro in Portugal and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science, Psychology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Clinical Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Applied Psychology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research focuses on several key topics, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

Casimiro Pio has published in various peer-reviewed venues, including:

  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Urban Climate

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Casimiro Pio are:

  • Impact of biomass burning and non-exhaust vehicle emissions on PM10 levels in a mid-size non-industrial western Iberian city, 2022, Atmospheric Environment
  • Vickybot, a Chatbot for Anxiety-Depressive Symptoms and Work-Related Burnout in Primary Care and Health Care Professionals: Development, Feasibility, and Potential Effectiveness Studies, 2023, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • X-ray Spectroscopic Quantification of Phosphorus Transformation in Saharan Dust during Trans-Atlantic Dust Transport, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Morphological properties, chemical composition, cancer risks and toxicological potential of airborne particles from traffic and urban background sites, 2021, Atmospheric Research
  • Application of SUEWS model forced with WRF: Energy fluxes validation in urban and suburban Portuguese areas, 2020, Urban Climate

Frequent collaborators in research include Oxana Tchepel, Miriam Sanabra, Mireia Primé-Tous, Ivette Morilla, and Iría Grande. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary cooperation in both environmental and psychological domains.

Best Publications

  • Carbonaceous aerosol in urban and rural European atmospheres: estimation of secondary organic carbon concentrations

    L.M. Castro;C.A. Pio;Roy M. Harrison;D.J.T. Smith

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Levoglucosan levels at background sites in Europe for assessing the impact of biomass combustion on the European aerosol background

    Hans Puxbaum;Alexandre Caseiro;Alexandre Caseiro;Asunción Sánchez-Ochoa;Anne Kasper-Giebl

  • Results of the "Carbon Conference" International Aerosol Carbon Round Robin Test Stage I

    Heidrun Schmid;Lothar Laskus;Hans Jürgen Abraham;Urs Baltensperger

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 organic aerosol over Europe: Primary/secondary, natural/anthropogenic, and fossil/biogenic origin

    András Gelencsér;Barbara May;David Simpson;David Simpson;Asunción Sánchez-Ochoa

  • OC/EC ratio observations in Europe: Re-thinking the approach for apportionment between primary and secondary organic carbon

    Casimiro Pio;Mário Cerqueira;Roy M. Harrison;Teresa Nunes

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • AIRUSE-LIFE+: a harmonized PM speciation and source apportionment in five southern European cities

    Fulvio Amato;Andrés Alastuey;Angeliki Karanasiou;Franco Lucarelli

  • Source apportionment of fine and coarse particulate matter in a sub-urban area at the Western European Coast

    S.M. Almeida;C.A. Pio;M.C. Freitas;M.A. Reis

  • General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) - integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales

    M. Kulmala;A. Asmi;H. K. Lappalainen;H. K. Lappalainen;U. Baltensperger

  • Children exposure to atmospheric particles in indoor of Lisbon primary schools

    Susana Marta Almeida;Nuno Canha;Ana Silva;Maria do Carmo Freitas

  • Chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols during the 2003 summer intense forest fire period

    C.A. Pio;M. Legrand;C.A. Alves;T. Oliveira

  • Net ecosystem carbon exchange in three contrasting Mediterranean ecosystems ? the effect of drought

    J. S. Pereira;J. A. Mateus;L. M. Aires;G. Pita

  • Wood burning impact on PM10 in three Austrian regions

    Alexandre Caseiro;Alexandre Caseiro;Heidi Bauer;Christoph Schmidl;Casimiro A. Pio

  • Climatology of aerosol composition (organic versus inorganic) at nonurban sites on a west-east transect across Europe

    Casimiro Pio;Michel Legrand;Tiago Oliveira;Joana Afonso

  • Size-differentiated composition of inorganic atmospheric aerosols of both marine and polluted continental origin

    Roy M. Harrison;Casimiro A. Pio

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives (nitro-PAHs, oxygenated PAHs, and azaarenes) in PM 2.5 from Southern European cities

    Célia A. Alves;Ana M. Vicente;Danilo Custódio;Mário Cerqueira

  • Composition of extractable organic matter of air particles from rural and urban Portuguese areas

    Célia Alves;Casimiro Pio;Armando Duarte

  • Seasonal trends and possible sources of brown carbon based on 2-year aerosol measurements at six sites in Europe

    Hajnalka Lukács;András Gelencsér;Samuel Hammer;Hans Puxbaum

  • Fireplace and woodstove fine particle emissions from combustion of western Mediterranean wood types

    Célia Alves;Cátia Gonçalves;Ana Patrícia Fernandes;Luís Tarelho

  • Modeling carbonaceous aerosol over Europe: Analysis of the CARBOSOL and EMEP EC/OC campaigns

    David Simpson;David Simpson;K. E. Yttri;Z. Klimont;K. Kupiainen

Frequent Co-Authors

Célia Alves
Célia Alves University of Aveiro
Teresa Nunes
Teresa Nunes University of Aveiro
Susana Marta Almeida
Susana Marta Almeida Instituto Superior Técnico
Xavier Querol
Xavier Querol Spanish National Research Council
Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand University of Lille
András Gelencsér
András Gelencsér University of Pannonia
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison University of Birmingham
Armando C. Duarte
Armando C. Duarte University of Aveiro

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