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Marcel Koeleman & Sef van den Elshout: Maintaining Rotterdam air quality through rhythm analysis

Marcel Koeleman is educated to be a geohydrologist, business administrator and visual artist. Currently he is manager with the Environmental Protection Agency DCMR Rijnmond, and until recently involved in the Centre of Expertise. He was responsible for research and management of the air quality in the industrialised region of Rotterdam, where he developed a tool based on rhythmic patterns in air qualities for safeguarding an healthy climate around the city of Rotterdam. Currently he is doing research on the topic of aesthetics in the context of business leadership. As visual artist Koeleman is very aware of the potential of rhythm. 

Sef van den Elshout works at DCMR, the regional EPA in the greater Rotterdam area. He is senior advisor in the air quality and energy unit. He has MSc degrees in soil science and economy and has worked for over a decade in environmental planning in several African countries. Since 2001 he is active in air quality assessment (monitoring & modelling, data-analysis) and air quality communication in the Rotterdam urban and port-industrial area. He is/was involved in several international research and collaboration projects on urban air quality management. He is on the editorial board of the Dutch air quality journal, Tijdschrift Lucht'.