Lejla Ademi Shaqiri
Research Assistant at MVDSI – Teaching Asistant at the Economy, Environment and Energy programme.
Environment & Health · EHG
About Me
I am a Research Assistant at the Max van der Stoel Institute and a part-time lecturer at the Energy, Economy and Environment program of the Faculty of Business and Economics, in the South East European University (SEEU).
I earned my bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics (LSE), an SEEU program that was in collaboration with London School of Economics. Subsequently, I pursued my master’s degree in Air Pollution, Management and Control at the University of Birmingham (with Distinction), where I actively participated in many extracurricular activities. My thesis focused on apportioning of the sources in an urban household in Tetovo using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization. Notably, this analysis marked the first instance of such methods being applied in the city.
Prior to joining MVDSI, I worked as a finance associate at AeroTehnika DOOEL. Additionally, I worked with different organizations, being actively involved in volunteering work, particularly focusing on environmental and social causes.
My research focuses on air pollution, with a primary focus on Tetovo, and the utilization of source apportionment methods to distinguish between the various pollution sources prevalent in the city.
News
- September, 2025: Organised and facilitated a two-day workshop as part of the ‘Students for Sustainable Development’ project, focusing on the subtheme Advanced Sustainability Practices and Applications, held at SEEU and MTU in Skopje.
- August, 2025: Co-Authored Peer-Reviewed Paper titled “Low-Cost Source Apportionment of Air Pollution – literature review of the state of the art” in Science of The Total Environment Journal
- July 2025: Co-Authored Blog Published by University of Birmingham, as a follow up to the conclusion of the project.
- May 2025: Led Meetings and Co-Organized Air Pollution Exhibition in Tetovo for “Bridging Science, Policy, and Community: Enhancing Air Quality Research, Advocacy and Capacity Building in North Macedonia” Project
- January 2025: Together with Fortesa Asani published Conference Paper titled “The Role of Social Movements in Municipal-Citizen Collaboration: The Case of North Macedonia”.