SPEAKERS
First Speakers announced, more to come!
Plenary Speakers
Daniel Knopf
My research focuses on the physical and chemical properties of aerosol particles and their interaction with the atmosphere. Phase transitions of aerosol particles e.g. the formation of ice and its corresponding impact on the global radiation budget is one of the least understood processes in the atmosphere.
Yafang Cheng
Aerosols are at the centre of my research interests. I am developing and combining experimental methods and multi-scale modelling tools to advance mechanistic understanding of aerosol particle formation and transformation as well as the impact of aerosols on air quality, public health and climate change.
Lidia Morawska
Lidia conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment, with a specific focus on science of airborne particulate matter. She has also been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national and international professional bodies and has been acting as an advisor to the WHO.
Claudia Mohr
The characterization of the chemical composition of (organic) aerosol particles and organic trace gases by means of advanced mass spectrometric techniques, and the investigation of their sources, formation and transformation processes, and fate in the atmosphere in the field and laboratory, lie at the heart of my research.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jurgita Ovadnevaite
Jurgita Ovadnevaite is an Associate Professor at School of Natural Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland and a deputy director of the Ryan Institute’s Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies (C-CAPS), where she leads the Aerosol Mass Spectrometry field and the National Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Network. Her work is focused on elucidating aerosol particle sources and impacts on climate, air quality and health.
Jingkun Jiang
Dr. Jiang is a professor at School of Environment, Tsinghua University. His research activities involve aerosol instrumentation and their applications in addressing atmospheric new particle formation and growth in urban environment.
Vijay P. Kanawade
Prof Kanawade is presently working as a UGC-Assistant Professor in the Centre for Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Physics at the University of Hyderabad. His research focuses on the evolution of aerosols in the atmosphere with their relative importance in air quality and climate studies. The process-level understanding of secondary aerosol formation is at the center of his research interests.
Federico Bianchi
Federico Bianchi graduated in chemistry from the University of Milan and received his PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zürich. In 2018, he was appointed Assistant Professor, and after being awarded with an ERC starting grant in 2019, Associate Professor on atmosphere and cryosphere interactions at the University of Helsinki. He has won several awards, among which the Arne Richter Award from the European Geophysical Union for Outstanding Early Career Scientists in 2017, and the Schmauss Award in 2021. His research focuses on the formation of atmospheric new particles from the pristine free troposphere to polluted megacities.
Jeffrey Pierce
Jeffrey Pierce is a Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. His group's research focuses on atmospheric aerosols, their physical and chemical evolution in the atmosphere, and their impacts on climate and health. They aim to blend models and observations to learn cool new things! He currently serves on NASA's Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team (HAQAST) and is an author of the current US National Climate Assessment.