Sasho Gligorovski
Professor
Environmental Science and Engineering Research Group
Office: R425, North Campus
Overview
In April 2025, Professor Sasho Gligorovski joined the Environmental Science and Engineering Group at Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT). He earned his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Germany. Following this, he completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at IRCELYON in France (2005–2006). From 2006 to 2017, he held positions as Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at Aix Marseille University in France. In 2017, he was appointed Full Professor at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he worked until April 2025. Professor Gligorovski’s pioneering research investigates the kinetics, mechanisms, and photochemistry of multiphase reactions occurring on environmental surfaces. His work spans aerosols, urban grime, oceanic interfaces, and indoor environments, providing critical data for regional and global photochemical models. These contributions are vital to addressing pressing challenges such as air quality degradation and climate change, positioning his research at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the 21st century. With over 100 SCI-indexed publications, Professor Gligorovski as a corresponding author has authored groundbreaking studies in top-tier journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Science Advances, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Chemical Reviews, and Environmental Science and Technology, among the others. He has received prestigious fellowships and awards including National Natural Science Foundation of China International Excellent Senior Scientists Fellowship in 2022, Excellent Mentor of Graduate Students by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2024, 2023 and 2021, Zhu Li Yuehua outstanding Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science award in 2023, Best Project Award nominated by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France in 2012, and three times recipient of the visiting fellowship from the European Commission (EC).
Research Interests
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Multiphase Chemistry
- Indoor Air Chemistry
- Air Quality
- Climate
Representative Publications
- H. Deng, J. Qiu, J. Xu, Y. Qu, J. Wang, Y. Liu, S. Gligorovski*, Ozone Chemistry on Greasy Glass Surfaces Affects the Levels of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Environments, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024, 58, 19, 8393-8403.
- J. Liu, B. Li, H. Deng, Y. Yang, W. Song, X. Wang, Y. Luo, J. S. Francisco, L. Li, S. Gligorovski*, Resolving the Formation Mechanism of HONO via Ammonia-Promoted Photosensitized Conversion of Monomeric NO2 on Urban Glass Surfaces, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 21, 11488–11493.
- H. Deng, P. S. J. Lakey, Y. Wang, P. Li, J. Xu, H. Pang, J. Liu, X. Xu, X. Li, X. Wang, Y. Zhang, M. Shiraiwa, S. Gligorovski*, Daytime SO2 Chemistry on Ubiquitous Urban Surfaces as a Source of Organic Sulfur Compounds in Ambient Air, Sci. Adv., 2022, 8, eabq6830.
- Y. Wang, H. Deng, P. Li, J. Xu, G. Loisel, H. Pang, X. Xu, X. Li, S. Gligorovski*, Interfacial Ozone Oxidation Chemistry at Riverine Surface Microlayer as a Source of Nitrogen Organic Compounds, Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., 2022, 9, 6, 493–500.
- S. Gligorovski*, J. Abbatt, An indoor chemical cocktail, Science, 2018, 359, 632-633.
- J. Liu, H. Deng, P. S. J. Lakey, H. Jiang, M. Mekic, X. Wang, M. Shiraiwa, S. Gligorovski*, Unexpectedly high indoor HONO concentrations associated with photochemical NO2 transformation on glass windows, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2020, 54, 24, 15680-15688.
- J. Zeng, M. Mekic, X. Xu, G. Loisel, Z. Zhou, S. Gligorovski*, X. Li, A novel insight into the ozone-skin lipids oxidation products observed by secondary electrospray ionization high resolution mass spectrometry, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2020, 54, 21, 13478-13487.
- M. Mekic, Y. Wang, G. Loisel, D. Vione, S. Gligorovski*, Ionic strength effect alters the heterogeneous ozone oxidation of methoxyphenols in going from cloud droplets to aerosol deliquescent particles, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2020, 54, 20, 12898-12907.
- A. Gandolfo, S. Marque, B. Temime-Roussel, R. Gemayel, H. Wortham, D. Truffier-Boutry, V. Bartolomei, S. Gligorovski*, Unexpectedly high levels of organic compounds released by indoor photocatalytic paints, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2018, 52, 11328-11337.
- E. Gómez Alvarez, D. Amedro, C. Afif, S. Gligorovski*, C. Schoemacker, C. Fittschen, J.F. Doussin, H. Wortham, Unexpectedly high indoor hydroxyl radical concentrations associated with nitrous acid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2013, 110(33), 13294-13299.