Professor Nønne Prisle joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Environmental Science: Atmospheres!

We are delighted to welcome Professor Nønne Prisle, University of Oulu, Finland, as a new Associate Editor for Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

“In atmospheric science, the intersection between complexity, discovery and society’s grand challenges is very clear, which makes it so fascinating and humbling at the same time.”

Nønne is an Associate Professor in atmospheric science and leads the Atmospheric Research (ATMOS) group at University of Oulu. She has a BSc in physics from University of Southern Denmark, a PhD in chemistry from University of Copenhagen and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki University’s Institute for Atmospheric Research (INAR) and Georgia Institute of Technology School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Her research interests are atmospheric chemistry, air quality and climate with focus on aerosol and surface thermodynamics, cloud microphysics, multiphase systems modelling and applications of imaging and spectroscopic methods. She currently holds a European Research Council grant (2016) and an Academy of Finland Research Fellowship (2017) and received the 2020 Aerosologist Award of the Nordic Society for Aerosol Research. She is vice-chair of the board of Finnish Synchrotron Radiation Users Organization, board member of the Finnish Association for Aerosol Research and spokesperson for atmospheric research at the Finnish-Estonian Beamline for Atmospheric and Materials Science at the MAX IV synchrotron facility. She is a speaker of TEDxOulu – Arctic Matters (2020) and co-contributor to the podcast Exploring Brilliant Science and the graphic novel “Little Things” about her research.

Read some of Nønne’s recent papers below.

SO2 formation and peroxy radical isomerization in the atmospheric reaction of OH radicals with dimethyl disulfide
Torsten Berndt, Jing Chen, Kristian H. Møller, Noora Hyttinen, Nønne L. Prisle, Andreas Tilgner, Erik H. Hoffmann, Hartmut Herrmann and Henrik G. Kjaergaard
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 13634-13637

Effects of surface tension time-evolution for CCN activation of a complex organic surfactant
Jack J. Lin, Thomas B. Kristensen, Silvia M. Calderón, Jussi Malila and Nønne L. Prisle
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2020, 22, 271-284

Shifted equilibria of organic acids and bases in the aqueous surface region
Josephina Werner, Ingmar Persson, Olle Björneholm, Delphine Kawecki, Clara-Magdalena Saak, Marie-Madeleine Walz, Victor Ekholm, Isaak Unger, Corina Valtl, Carl Caleman, Gunnar Öhrwall and Nønne L. Prisle
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 23281-23293

Please join us in welcoming Professor Prisle to Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

Best wishes,

Dr Anna Rulka
Executive Editor, Environmental Science: Atmospheres

esatmospheres-rsc@rsc.org

Professor Joel Thornton joins the Editorial Board

Welcome to Environmental Science: Atmospheres!

We are delighted to welcome Professor Joel Thornton, University of Washington, USA, as a new member of the editorial board for Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

“I am excited to be part of a new open-access journal that seeks to promptly publish fundamental advances in our understanding of the atmosphere in a format that will embrace its complexity and represent the diversity of disciplinary expertise the science demands.”

Joel is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. He received a BA with a major in Chemistry in 1996 from Dartmouth College followed by a PhD in Chemistry with an emphasis in atmospheric chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002.

“After arriving, I read through the faculty prospectus and learned about Ronald Cohen’s research using laser spectroscopy as an analytical tool to study chemical kinetics and reaction mechanisms in the atmosphere aboard aircraft……… I remember reading my first paper on the atmospheric chemistry of isoprene and being instantly hooked by the potential to connect my interests in physical organic chemistry with important problems in air quality and climate.”

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, he joined the faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 2004. His research interests include atmospheric multi-phase chemistry, particulate matter formation and growth, aerosol-cloud interactions, and the impacts of these on air quality and climate.

“Once I was exposed to atmospheric chemistry, it was more of a calling than a choice. Its wealth of intellectually stimulating questions involving physical organic chemistry, spanning across multiple disciplines, having societal importance, and requiring state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation, was all I could want for a research career.”

Read some of Joel’s recent papers below.

N₂O₅ reactive uptake kinetics and chlorine activation on authentic biomass-burning aerosol
Lexie A. Goldberger, Lydia G. Jahl, Joel A. Thornton and Ryan C. Sullivan
Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts., 2019, 21, 1684-1698
 

Ambient observations of dimers from terpene oxidation in the gas phase: Implications for new particle formation and growth
Claudia Mohr, Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker, Taina Yli-Juuti, Arto Heitto, Anna Lutz, Mattias Hallquist, Emma L. D’Ambro, Matti P. Rissanen, Liqing Hao, Siegfried Schobesberger, Markku Kulmala, Roy L. Mauldin III, Ulla Makkonen, Mikko Sipila, Tuukka Petaja and Joel A. Thornton
Geophys. Res. Lett., 2017, 44, 2958-2966
 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Thornton to Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

Best wishes,

Dr Anna Rulka

Executive Editor, Environmental Science: Atmospheres

esatmospheres-rsc@rsc.org