Aerosol Science Research Webinars
CDT research webinars are presented by leading academic and industrial researchers, helping practioners stay up to date with the latest developments in their fields. The CDT webinar programme is open to our students, academic team and Tier 2 partners. Partners can access the full programme of webinars, either joining live or watching recordings via the e-Portal.
Webinar available to all:
Prof Lea Ann Dailey (University of Vienna): Are we inhaling nano- and microplastics? And if so, what could be the potential effects?
Recorded 11th November 2021
Research Webinars: Spring 2025
| 16th January | Dr Marit Meyer (NASA) |
Air Quality in the International Space Station |
| 6th February | Prof. Hope Michelsen (University of Colorado Boulder) |
Tbc |
| 20th February |
Prof. Hallie Chelmo |
Ice crystals and ice crystal aggregates found in cirrus clouds and their impacts with high-speed vehicles |
| 6th March | Prof. Joel Corbin (National Research Council Canada) |
Tbc |
Catch up on past webinars by becoming a CDT partner:
Autumn 2024
| 9th October | Prof. Worth Longest (Virginia Commonwealth University) |
Preclinical Development of Pharmaceutical Aerosol Platforms and Products at VCU with a Case Study in Surfactant Aerosol Therapy for Preterm Infants
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| 31st October | Dr Hannah Wakeford and Mr. Matthew Lodge (University of Bristol) |
Fractal Aerosols in Exoplanet Atmospheres
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| 21st November | Dr Simon Parker (DSTL) |
Modelling Disease Transmission – Understanding the Impact of Human Behaviour in Complex Environments
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Spring 2024
| 18th January | Dr Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan (University of Memphis) |
Understanding particle behavior in gas-phase systems for engineering applications
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| 15th February | Prof. Linsey Marr (Virginia Tech) |
Effectiveness of Ionization Against Bioaerosols in a Lecture Hall
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| 14th March | Dr Christof Asbach (Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology e.V. (IUTA)) |
Possibilities and limitations of low-cost particulate matter sensors
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| 18th April | Prof. Megan D. Willis (Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University) |
Insights into the sources and fate of marine biogenic sulfur from field and laboratory studies
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| 16th May | Dr Barbara Ervens (University of Clermont Auvergne) |
Bioaerosols – they are alive! Airborne microorganisms affect the atmosphere and vice versa
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Summer 2023
| 27 April | Professor Cameron Tropea (University of Darmstadt) |
Depth from Defocus Technique for Particle Sizing
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| 4 May | Professor Andrew Ault (University of Michigan) |
Dropping Acid in the Atmosphere: Is it Just a Phase?
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| 25 May | Professor Ilona Riipinen (Stockholm University) |
Some Insights into Aerosol-Cloud-Climate interactions in Environments with Limited Human Influence
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| 1 June | Professor Annele Virtanen (University of Eastern Finland) |
Aerosol-cloud interactions: reaching out from process level to large scale models
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Spring 2023
| 26 January | Prof Juan Fernandez de la Mora (Yale) |
High resolution nanoparticle size determination by vapor condensation and the verification of classical heterogeneous nucleation theory
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| 2 February | Prof Karen Aplin (University of Bristol) |
Ion-aerosol interactions in atmospheres
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| 9 February | Prof Dwayne Heard (University of Leeds) |
Quantification of aerosol heterogeneous processes important for oxidation chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere
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| 16 February | Dr James Radney & Dr Christopher Zangmeister (NIST) |
Aerosol metrology at NIST: A Short History
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| 2 March | Prof Jessica Oakes (Northeastern University) |
Respirable Particles in the Lung: From Wildland Fires to Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases
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| 9 March | Prof Shanna A. Ratnesar-Shumate (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) |
Comparison of the Performance of Aerosol Sampling Devices for Measuring Infectious Aerosols
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| 16 March | Dr Anton Souslov (University of Bath) |
Modelling aerosol droplets and the elastic Leidenfrost effect
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| 23 March | Dr Jakob Löndahl (Lund University) |
SARS-CoV-2 from source to recipient: aerosol studies that (probably) can’t be repeated before the next pandemic
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Autumn 2022
| 27 October | Dr Jennifer Murphy (University of Toronto) |
Quantifying the pH of atmospheric aerosol and understanding its drivers
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| 10 November | Dr Oliver Bischof & Dr Sebastian Schmitt (TSI) |
The latest developments in the use of Condensation Particle Counters (CPCs) and specific details on their use in low-pressure applications
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| 24 November | Prof Hanna Vehkamäki (University of Helsinki) |
Molecular modelling of particle formation: towards real atmosphere
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| 1 December | Dr Chiara Giorio (University of Cambridge) |
Coordination chemistry in atmospheric aerosols: effects on metal solubility, dissolution kinetics, and health
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Summer 2022
| 28 April | Dr Maria Messing (Lund University) |
Designing Nanoparticle-based Materials: From Sparks to Multifunctional Materials
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| 5 May | Aerosol Measurements Forum (AMF) | |
| 11 May | Professor Rommie Amaro (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego) |
Computational Microscopy of Sea Spray and Respiratory Aerosols
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| 26 May | Dr Shelly Miller (University of Colorado Boulder) |
Air Quality of the Urban Built Environment: Sources, Impacts, and Solutions to Improve Health and Wellbeing
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| 9 June | Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London) |
Measuring transmission of SARS Cov2
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| 16 June | Prof John Plane (University of Leeds) |
Cosmic dust in planetary atmospheres
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Spring 2022
| 27 January | Dr Grégory David (ETH Zurich) |
Optical trapping and characterization of aerosol particles
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| 3 February | Professor Jacqueline Hamilton (University of York) |
Into the Smog: Using composition to understand the sources of atmospheric aerosols
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| 17 February | Dr Rebecca Washenfelder (NOAA) |
Brown carbon composition and lifetime in wildfire plumes
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| 24 February | Dr Anne Maisser (Cyprus Institute) |
Advances in Aerosol Instrumentation: Development of Cost-effective, Lightweight Instruments for Aerosol Monitoring
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| 3 March | Dr James Allan (University of Manchester) |
Measuring atmospheric black carbon with single particle soot photometry
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| 31 March | Dr Daniel Duke (Monash University) |
Environmentally friendly metered dose inhaler propellants – new techniques and approaches
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Autumn / Winter 2021
| 23 September | Dr Stelios Rigopoulos (Imperial College London) | Population Balance Modelling of Aerosol Dynamics: Fundamentals, Solution Methods and Applications |
| 30 September | Prof Claire Carmalt (University College London) | Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition of Functional Materials |
| 7 October | Prof Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado) | Water -air interfaces provide special reaction environment |
| 14 October | Nick Molden (Emissions Analytics) | New approaches to characterising tyre wear emissions and their environmental and health effects |
| 11 November | Prof Lea Ann Dailey (University of Vienna) | Are we inhaling nano- and microplastics? And if so, what could be the potential effects? |
| 18 November | Prof Jon Abbatt (Toronto) | Multiphase Oxidation Chemistry: From East Asian Haze to Wildfires to Indoor Environments |
| 2 December | Prof Alexander Bergmann and Dr Benjamin Lang | Photothermal, Photoacoustic and Related Direct Absorption Techniques for Aerosol and Cloud Sensing |
| 9 December | Prof Hugh Smyth (University of Texas) |
Development of an Aerosolized Antiviral Therapy for Coronavirus Infections during the Pandemic
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Spring / Summer 2021
| 22 April | Dr Ulrich Krieger (ETH Zürich) | Photochemistry in viscous iron(III) citrate/citric acid aerosol: Degradation of aerosol mass and radical persistence due to inner particle anoxia |
| 6 May | Dr Susanne V. Hering (Aerosol Dynamics) |
To Measure Ultrafine Aerosols: Just Add Water Susanne will present adaptation of water-based condensational particle counting for microgravity environments, and will present data from the International Space Station. |
| 13 May | Dr Allan Bennett (Public Health England) | SARS-CoV-2 – Searching for a pathogen in the air |
| 20 May | Dr Chris Hogan (University of Minnesota) | Aerosol science and engineering and the COVID-19 issue: Airborne transmission models & more |
| 27 May | Dr Douglas Worsnop (Aerodyne Research Inc) | Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry: Climate and Air Quality |
| 10 June | Dr David de Haan (University of San Diego) | Wet, Dry, Light, Dark: Brown Carbon Formation in a Dynamic Atmosphere |
| 17 June | Dr Nønne Prisle (University Oulu) | Atmospheric water surfaces |
| 24 June | Dr Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge) | Models for natural ventilation: sash windows and cross-ventilation |
| 1 July | Dr Alison Rust (University of Bristol) and Dr Frances Beckett (Met office) | Volcanic ash size and shape – a collaboration bridging eruption processes and ash cloud forecasts |
Spring 2021
| 14 January | Dr Jonathan Symonds (Cambustion) | Fast response electrical aerosol spectrometry |
| 21 January | Prof Christopher Sorenson (Kansas State University) | Light scattering and absorption by particles: The Q-space approach |
| 28 January | Dr Delphine Farmer (Colorado State University) | Masters of their fate: Revisiting atmospheric particle dry deposition and lifetime |
| 4 February | Prof Pratim Biswas (Washington University in St Louis) | Aerosol science and engineering and the COVID-19 issue: Airborne transmission models & more |
| 18 February | Dr James Davies (University of California Riverside) | Exploring the Physicochemical Properties of Aerosol Using a Linear Quadrupole Electrodynamic Balance |
| 4 March | Dr Matthew Wright (Public Health England) | Aerosol techniques in toxicology: generation, characterisation and delivery in exposure systems |
| 18 March | Prof Sonia Kreidenweis (Colorado State University) | In search of ice nuclei over the Southern Ocean |
| 25 March | Dr Marc Stettler (Imperial College London) |
Autumn / Winter 2020
| 17 September | Dr Nadine Borduas-Dedekind (ETH Zurich) | Cool cloud chemistry: Molecular insight into the atmospheric ice nucleation of organic matter |
| 1 October | Prof Nicole Riemer (University of Illinois) | Aerosol Mixing State: Synthesizing Measurements and Models |
| 8 October | The CDT webinar programme will take a break this week: American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 38th annual conference | https://www.aaar.org/2020/ |
| 15 October | Prof Benjamin Murray (University of Leeds) | The role of ice nucleating aerosol particles in clouds and Earth’s climate |
| 22 October | Dr Alla Zelenyuk-Imre (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) | Toward Understanding the Synergetic Interactions between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles |
| 29 October | Dr Tom Grimble (Dyson) | Aerosol Interactions Inside Cyclone Separators |
| 5 November | The Aerosol Society Annual Aerosol Science Conference (AASC) | https://aerosol-soc.com/events/annual-aerosol-science-conference-2020/ |
| 12 November | Dr Stephanie Wright (Imperial College London) | Airborne plastic pollution: Looking for microplastics in a particulate matter haystack |
| 19 November | Dr Adam Squires (University of Bath) | Self-assembly in soft nanomaterials: lipid and surfactant droplets and films in ambient humidity |
| 26 November | Dr Jason Olfert (University of Alberta) | Beyond particle mobility classifiers: Classifying particles by mass or relaxation time |
| 3 December | Prof Sally-Ann Cryan (RCSI School of Pharmacy) | Harnessing materials for the development of advanced respiratory therapeutics |
| 10 December | Prof Jun-ya Kohno (Gakushuin University) | Gas-phase solution chemistry |
| 17 December | Prof Chak Chan (City University of Hong Kong) | Applications of single particle Raman spectroscopy in studies of atmospheric particles |
Summer 2020
| 21 May | Dr John Pritchard (Inspiring Strategies) | Is the future of pMDIs up in the air? |
| 28 May | Prof Sotiris Pratsinis (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- ETH Zurich) | Aerosol-made detectors for sensing of gases at high selectivity |
| 4 June | Dr Miriam Freedman (Penn State University) | Liquid-liquid phase separation in aerosol particles |
| 11 June | Prof Murray Johnston (University of Delaware) | The ins and outs of aerosol chemistry: What happens in the gas phase, the particle phase, and across the interface, and why it matters |
| 18 June | Prof Regina Scherließ (University of Kiel) | Vaccination via the respiratory tract |
| 25 June | Prof Jonathan Reid (University of Bristol) | SARS-CoV-2: Aerosols, droplets and airborne transmission |
| 2 July | Dr Kerri Pratt (University of Michigan) | Atmospheric aerosols in the rapidly changing Arctic |
| 9 July | Dr Coty Jen (Carnegie Mellon University) | Embracing the chemical complexity of wildfire smoke |
| 16 July | Dr Thomas Preston (McGill University) | Spectroscopy of optically trapped aerosol particles |
| 23 July | Prof Francis Pope (University of Birmingham) | Past, present and future particulate matter (PM) assessment in East Africa |
| 30 July | Dr Christian Pfrang (University of Birmingham) | Ageing of atmospheric aerosols |
Spring 2020
| 6 February | Prof Darragh Murnane (University of Hertfordshire) | Computational and modelling approaches in dry powder inhaler products |
| 13 February | Prof Barbara Wyslouzil (Ohio State University) | From vapor to nanocrystal in microseconds: The short lifestory of a nanodroplet |
| 20 February | Prof Rajan Chakrabarty, (Washington University in St. Louis) | Non-equilibrium aerosol dynamics across length scales: Addressing a few contemporary challenges |
| 27 February | Prof Simone Hochgreb (University of Cambridge) | Recent developments in nanoparticle detection systems |
| 5 March | Dr Hazem Matar (University of Hertfordshire) | Considerations for CBRN exposures |
| 19 March | Prof Cari Dutcher (University Of Minnesota) | Aerosol measurements with microfluidic platforms |
| 2 April | Bioaerosols: Aerosol Society Focus Meeting 15 | https://aerosol-soc.com/events/bioaerosols-focus-meeting-15/ |
Autumn 2019
| 25 October | Dr David Topping (University of Manchester) | Machine learning in aerosol science – watch webinar at the top of the page |
| 1 November | Dr Adam Boies (University of Cambridge) | Aerosol carbon nanotube synthesis insights and advances |
| 8 November | Prof Catherine Noakes (University of Leeds) | Modelling bioaerosol dispersion and infection risk in indoor environments |
| 15 November | Prof Ian Ford (UCL) | Thermodynamic puzzles in nucleation theory |
| 29 November | Prof Terry Tetley (Imperial) | Particulate air pollution and health |
| 5 December | Prof Francesca Buttini (University of Parma) | Engineered microparticles for high dose DPI and powder administration |
CDT members and Tier 2 partners and can watch recordings of past webinars via the e-Portal:
EPSRC CDT in Aerosol Science
University of Bristol
School of Chemistry
Cantock's Close
Bristol, BS8 1TS
aerosol-science@bristol.ac.uk
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