Alexander Larcombe is an Associate Professor in the School of Population Health at Curtin University. His work investigates how environmental exposures, including e-cigarette aerosols, viral infections, smoke and combustion-derived air pollution, affect respiratory health, with a particular focus on early life and pregnancy. He leads a program spanning the full pre-clinical pipeline, from primary human airway cell models through to in vivo assessment of lung structure and function. He teaches toxicology and occupational disease, and contributes to tobacco and air quality policy through advisory roles with ACOSH, Cancer Council WA's Clear the Air campaign, NEMEC and others.