Since June 2007 I have been working as a Post-Doc at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille in Villeneuve D'Ascq, just outside Lille, France. My work focuses on the development of a FAGE (Fluorescence Assay by Gas Expansion) instrument for the atmospheric measurement of OH and HO₂ radicals by way of Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF). I work in the Laboratoire de Physicochimie des Processus de Combustion et de l'Atmosphère (Laboratory of Combustion and Atmospheric Chemistry) [PC2A] group with Dr. Christa Fittschen and Dr. Coralie Schoemaecker.

Lille: View of Place du Général de Gaulle (Grand'Place).


Prior to that I completed my Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leicester in the UK, where I worked on measurements of peroxy radicals (the sum of HO₂ and RO₂) and subsequent data analysis. I was part of the atmospheric chemistry group with Prof. Paul Monks and took part in both airborne and ground based field campaigns. I worked on two airborne campaigns - ITOP in the Azores and AMMA in Niger, Africa. For the airborne campaigns the PERCA was installed on the UK NERC/UKMO FAAM BAe-146 aircraft. I also took part in ground campaigns, living for six weeks up the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, and also working at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland.

Leicester: Looking across Victoria Park towards the university.

I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, completing my M.Chem in 2003 during which I worked on lab kinetics studies of peroxy radicals in the group of Prof. Richard Wayne. During my time at Oxford I was at Worcester College.

Worcester College, Oxford: The college grounds.