Halima Salah
Adjunct Faculty
Ph.D. - Wayne State University (2021 - 2025)
M.S. - Wayne State University (2019 - 2021)
B.S. - American University of Sharjah (2012 - 2017)
Interested in sustainability and translating complex scientific knowledge into accessible narratives that inspire action.
Professional Experience
Halima Salah, Ph.D., is an atmospheric scientist and engineer specializing in air quality, sustainability, and environmental health. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental and Water Engineering from the American University of Sharjah (2017), an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University (2021), and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University. She served as the inaugural Graduate Fellow for the United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise (UN-RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development in the Detroit-Windsor region (2023-2025), was the 2022-2023 Ralph Cicerone Fellow in Earth System Science Modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)’s Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling (ACOM) lab, and received the 2021-2022 National Science Foundation National Research Traineeship (NSF-NRT) Transformative Research in Urban Sustainability Training (T-RUST) Fellowship at Wayne State University.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
[1] Salah, H., Xiong, Y., Partha, D., Mariscal, N., Wang, L., Tilmes, S., Tang, W., & Huang, Y. (2025). Impact of anthropogenic emission estimates on air quality and human health effects. American Geophysical Union GeoHealth. (Accepted).
[2] Kamali Mohammadzadeh, A., Salah, H., Jahanmahin, R., Hussain, A. E., Masoud, S., & Huang, Y. (2024). Spatiotemporal integration of GCN and E-LSTM networks for PM2.5 forecasting. Machine Learning with Applications, 15, 100521.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlwa.2023.100521
[3] Xiong, Y., Partha, D. B., Prime, N., Smith, S., Mariscal, N., Salah, H., & Huang, Y. (2022). Long-term trends of impacts of global gasoline and diesel emissions on ambient PM2.5 and O3 pollution and the related health burden for 2000-2015. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10), 104042.