Timo Tuomi

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

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Timo Tuomi is a leading researcher in indoor air quality and environmental health, with a primary focus on the dynamics of biological particulate matter (bioPM) and its impact on human exposure. His work centers on understanding how everyday human activities—such as walking or cleaning—resuspend floor dust, transforming it into a major source of inhalable microbes and allergens indoors. Tuomi’s most-cited study, "Infant and Adult Inhalation Exposure to Resuspended Biological Particulate Matter" (2017, 81 citations), is a landmark contribution that quantifies how this resuspension process differs between infants and adults, revealing that young children face disproportionately higher exposure due to their proximity to the floor and higher breathing rates. This research has profound implications for public health, linking indoor dust dynamics to both adverse effects (e.g., allergies) and protective outcomes (e.g., reduced asthma risk). By bridging aerosol science, microbiology, and exposure assessment, Tuomi has advanced our understanding of the built environment as a critical determinant of respiratory health. His work is essential reading for students and researchers in environmental health, indoor air science, and pediatric exposure assessment.