Lejla Ademi Shaqiri
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.
Education
MSc, University of Birmingham (2023),
The McCall MacBain Clean Air Fellowship
BSc, South East European University (2022),
SEEU Fellowship
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”.
- March 2024: Appointed to Advisory Board of Skopje Climate Assembly for Four-Month Term
- February 2024: Participated at the final Western Balkans Responsible Research and Innovation Conference at Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- February 2024: Keynote Panelist at the Launch of Europe House Tetovo with “Tetovo for a New and Greener Generation” being the main theme.
- October 2023: A brief blog about a hypothetical project that Clean Air Fund (CAF) could fund was published on the CAF’s website !
- June 2023: Presented a hypothetical project using Clean Air Fund’s theory of change, named “Visualizing the urgency of air pollution in Tetovo” in front of CAF and University of Birmingham staff !
- June 2023: Took part in the Clean Air Fund (CAF) experience, meeting different CAF staff, grantees and partners to gain insight into the efforts that they put into combating pollution !
- April 2023: Collective blogs from students of the partnering institutions of EUniWell, titled “ Constraints of Cyclotopia” and “ Biking Across Borders” was published at the University of Birmingham website !