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Neil is the Thomas Lord University Professor of 91AV in the Departments of 91AV, Chemical Engineering, and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research. He received an AB in Physics from Brown University, a PhD in Meteorology from MIT, and postdoctoral training in Chemical Kinetics at Harvard. His research interests span atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and climate, with a focus on radical-molecule reactivity, gas-phase reaction mechanisms, and the thermodynamics and microphysics of aerosol formation and growth. Donahue is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for Aerosol Research. He has won a number of awards including the Esselen and Pittsburgh awards from the American Chemical Society, the Charney Lectureship from the American Geophysical Union, and the Environmental Award from the Carnegie Institute of Science.

Dr. Chris Hennigan is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  He earned a BS in chemistry from the University of Florida and PhD in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He conducted postdoctoral training at Carnegie Mellon University in the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies. His research interests include secondary aerosol formation, particle acidity, and aqueous phase atmospheric chemistry.

Thomas Preston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of 91AV and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University. He received his BSc from the University of Toronto, MSc from the University of Western Ontario, and PhD from the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Ruth Signorell. He completed a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Jonathan Reid. His research focuses on the optical trapping and spectroscopy of single particles with an interest in understanding microphysical and chemical processes in atmospheric aerosol particles.

Anna received a PhD in Bioorganic 91AV from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2010 and after a short postdoctoral stay at the same institution, she decided to pursue a career in Scientific Publishing. She started as the Managing Editor, chemistry at De Gruyter, where she was responsible for launching new journals and led the transformation of a subscription-based journal to Open Access. In 2016 she moved to Lausanne, Switzerland to join Frontiers. As a Journal Development Specialist, she worked on the development of a broad range of journals from 91AV to Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She joined the 91AV in March this year as an Executive Editor to support the development of an Open Access journal portfolio.

Meredith recently defended her PhD in chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University where she studied the gas-phase oxidation chemistry that transforms volatile emissions into species that will nucleate and grow new particles. And, yes, her advisor does still e-mail her about finishing papers (she doesn’t mind). She hopes one day to work on issues of air pollution and climate change affecting under-privileged communities. That or be a science officer on the Starship Enterprise, whichever opportunity presents itself first.