Richard Damoah

Richard Damoah is a Ghanaian physicist. He is a Physics professor at Morgan State University, and a research scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA.

Education Damoah had his secondary education at the Accra Academy from 1987 to 1996. He proceeded to the University of Cape Coast in 1997, where he graduated in 2000 with his bachelor of science degree. Following his undergraduate studies, Damoah enrolled at the University of Bremen for his postgraduate studies. He earned his master's degree in 2002, and continued at the Technical University of Munich for his doctorate degree, which he obtained in 2005. In 2006, he joined the teaching faculty of the University of Edinburgh as a research fellow on the NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council) award. He is an advisory board member of the Space Science Systems Research Institute.

Research interests Damoah's research interest are in climate and human health, atmospheric science, atmospheric pollution, atmospheric modelling, and atmospheric dispersion. He quantifies the effect of atmospheric pollutants on the quality of the air and climate through the application of observations and (remote sensing and in-situ), the use of radiative transfer models, and global 3D models. He has also been an editor for the Central European Journal of Geosciences (now Open Geosciences) since 2008.