Saloni Vijay

Saloni's research aims to evaluate the extent, markers, and health impacts of open trash burning. In particular, the focus of her research is on Black Carbon emitted from open waste burning in Malawi, a country in sub-Saharan Africa. Saloni calls herself an artist, but she is not a singer or a painter. She is a researcher passionate about air pollution-related research. It is an art as per her - the art of implementing interdisciplinary knowledge to identify novel economic and socially feasible solutions for the problem of air pollution. Before joining Global Health Engineering, Saloni did her Master's at ETH Zurich in Environmental Engineering and Bachelors at the Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. Before her Masters, she worked as a manager environment at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, where she was responsible for air quality data availability and analysis. Apart from research, she loves to dance and play harmonica.