DrApostolosVoulgarakis

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Senior Lecturer in Global Climate & Environmental Change

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Composition-climate interactions
• Short-lived climate pollutants
• Emissions-radiative forcing-response relationships
• Wildfire interactions with composition & climate
• Tropospheric oxidizing capacity
• Earth observation and Earth system modelling

EDUCATION:

• PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK (2008)
• MSc in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece (2004)
• BA in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2002)

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research; Postdoctoral Research Scientist (2009-10) & Associate Research Scientist (2011-12)
• University of Cambridge, Centre for Atmospheric Science; Research Associate (2008)

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• PI in UKIERI/UGC project Local and Remote influences on Rainfall over India (LORRI) (2014-present).
• Co-I in NERC Standard Grant project Quantifying and reducing uncertainties in the processes controlling tropospheric ozone and OH (2015-present).
• Co-Pi in NCEO project Influencing international activity in assessments of climate-chemistry models (2015).
• Co-I in NASA ACMAP project Utilizing A-Train Satellite Measurements in Conjunction with Global Models to Study the Radiative Impact of Clouds on Tropospheric Composition and Chemistry (2014-present).
• Expert Adviser in DECC project Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change Research Programme, Phase Two (AVOID-2) (2014-present).
• Co-I in EU Marie Curie IRES project Regional climate-air quality interactions (REQUA)(2013-present).
• Co-I in NASA ACMAP project The fate and effects of forest fire emissions injected directly into the stratosphere (2013-present).
• Co-I in NASA ACMAP project Evaluation of emissions and processes in the chemistry-climate system (2011-2014).
• Co-I in NASA ACMAP project Using and improving an interactive climate-composition model: GISS-PUCCINI (2009-2012).

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ROLES:

• Scientific Steering Committee member and Analysis Lead for Regional Experiments and Mitigation for the Precipitation Drivers and Response Modelling Intercomparison Project (PDRMIP) (2014-present).
• Analysis Co-Lead on cloud-composition interactions for the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) (2013-present).
• Analysis Co-Lead on OH and methane lifetime in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP), in support of IPCC AR5 (2011-2013).

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