Farid Rahal is Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Science and Technology of Oran Mohamed-Boudiaf, Algeria. He teaches students in architecture, modeling and geomatics. During the COVID19 pandemic, he developed courses for e-learning on a Moodle platform. It research activities that are carried out in the science, technology and process engineering laboratory of the same university. The main focus of his research concerns air quality. He has worked on emission inventories, meteorological modeling, pollutant transport modeling and air quality monitoring by electrochemical sensors. He also worked on urban sprawl using satellite images, and on urban and environmental risks. He has developed applications in parametric design concerning architecture.
