Athanasios Nenes
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology |
2003 |
M.S., Atmospheric Chemistry University of Miami |
1997 |
Dipl. Eng., Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
1993 |
Professor of Atmospheric Processes École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
2019-present |
Visiting Professor California Institute of Technology; University of Athens, Greece; National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
2015-2016 |
Affiliated Scientist National Observatory of Athens, Greece |
2015-present |
Affiliated Scientist Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece |
2008-present |
Professor Georgia Institute of Technology |
2011-2019 |
Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology |
2008-2011 |
Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology |
2002-2008 |
Swiss Academy of Sciences, co-Chair for Atmospheric Science Research Infrastructure | 2020-pres. |
President of Atmospheric Sciences Section, European Geophysical Union. | 2019-pres. |
Science Board, Greek Institute for Research and Development | 2018-present |
Committee on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols, Member | 2013-present |
BACCHUS Scientific Advisory Board | 2014-present |
Editor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2004-present |
Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) – Working Group 38 (Atmospheric input of chemicals to the ocean) | 2017-present |
National Research Council, Committee on the Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research, National Academy of Sciences | 2014-2016 |
Secretary of Aerosols & Clouds, Atmospheric Sciences, American Geophysical Union. | 2012-2016 |
President of Atmospheric Sciences Section, European Geophysical Union. | 2018-present |
Board of Directors, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2014-2017 |
Conference Chair, American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference | 2014 |
Conference Chair, International Aerosol Modeling Algorithms (IAMA) Conference | 2011 |
Conference co-Chair, International Aerosol Modeling Algorithms (IAMA) Conference | 2013 |
Conference Organization Committee, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2011-2015 |
Student Liason Chair, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2009 |
Tutorial Chair, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2009 |
Education Outreach Chair, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2010 |
Student Liason Committee, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2006-2009 |
Education Outreach Committee, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2007-2010 |
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2016) The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research: Remembering Yesterday, Understanding Today, Anticipating Tomorrow. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. DOI: 10.17226/235730
- Nenes, A., Murray, B., Bougiatioti, A. (2014) Mineral Dust and Its Microphysical Interactions with Clouds, In Knippertz, P., and Stuut, J.B., Mineral Dust: A Key Player in the Earth System, pp. 287-325, Springer, ISBN 978-94-017-8977-6
- Kanakidou, M., Myriokefalitakis, S., Papadimitriou, V.C., Nenes, A. (2020), Aerosol impacts on atmospheric chemistry and composition of deposition, In Dulac, F., and Sauvage, S., Atmospheric Chemistry and its Impacts in the Mediterranean Region, Springer
Group Achievement Award, NASA |
2019 |
US EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Award Honorable Mention |
2019 |
European Research Council, Consolidator Grant | 2016 |
Johnson Faculty Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) | 2016 |
Faces of Inclusive Excellence, GIT, 2015; Cullen-Peck Fellow, GIT | 2014 |
Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Mentor in Environmental Chemistry | 2014 |
Vaughan Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology | 2014 |
Atmospheric Sciences Section Ascent Award, American Geophysical Union | 2012 |
Outstanding Faculty Research Author, GIT | 2012 |
Kenneth T. Whitby Award, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2012 |
Georgia Power Faculty Scholar, GIT | 2011 |
Group Achievement Award, NASA | 2009 – 2010 |
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, College of Engineering, Columbia University | 2010 |
Henry G. Houghton Award, American Meteorological Society | 2009 |
Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, GIT | 2007 |
Sheldon K Friedlander Award, American Association for Aerosol Research | 2005 |
Blanchard-Milliken Young Faculty Fellowship, GIT | 2004 |
NASA New Investigator Program Award | 2004 |
National Science Foundation CAREER Award | 2004 |
ACCESS Colloquium Participation | 2003 |
Dean’s Prize, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | 1998 |
Best Diploma Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering, Chamber of Engineers (Greece) |
1996 |
Ito, A., Myriokefalitakis, S., Kanakidou, M., Mahowald, N.M., Scanza, R.A., Hamilton, D.S., Baker, A.R., Jickells, T., Sarin, M., Bikkina, S., Gao, Y., Shelley, R.U., Buck, C.S., Landing, W.M., Bowie, A.R., Perron, M.M.G., Guieu, C., Meskhidze, N., Johnson, M.S., Feng, Y., Kok, J.F., Nenes, A., Duce, R.A. (2019) Pyrogenic iron: The missing link to high iron solubility in aerosols, Sci.Adv., 5(5), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau7671
Guo, H., Weber, R.J., Nenes, A. (2017) High levels of ammonia do not raise fine particle pH sufficiently to yield nitrogen oxide-dominated sulfate production, Sci.Rep., 7, 12109, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11704-0
Zieger, P., O. Vaisanen, J. Corbin, D. Partridge, S. Bastelberger, M. Mousavi-Fard, B. Rosati, M. Gysel, U.K. Krieger, C. Leck, A. Nenes, I. Riipinen, A. Virtanen, and M. E. Salter (2017) Revising the hygroscopicity of inorganic sea salt aerosol, Nature Comm., 8, 15883, doi:10.1038/ncomms15883
Zhang, Y., Forrister, H., Liu, J., Dibb, J., Anderson, B., Schwarz, J.P., Perring, A.E., Jimenez, J.L., Campuzano-Jost, P., Wang, Y., Nenes, A., Weber, R.J. (2017) Convection Transports Brown Carbon to the Upper Troposphere Affecting Top of Atmosphere Radiative Forcing, Nature Geosci., doi:10.1038/ngeo2960
Li, W., Xu, L., Liu, X., Zhang, J., Lin, Y., Yao, X., Gao, H., Zhang, D., Chen, J., Wang, W., Harrison, R., Zhang, X., Shao, L., Fu, P., Nenes, A., Shi, Z. (2017) Air pollution – aerosol interactions produce more bioavailable iron for ocean ecosystems, Sci. Advances, 3, e1601749
Stockdale, A., Krom, M.D., Mortimer, R.J.G., Benning, L.G., Carslaw, K., Herbert, R., Shi, Z., Myriokefalitakis, S., Kanakidou, M., and Nenes, A. (2016) Supply of bioavailable phosphorus to the oceans: understanding the nature of atmospheric acid processing of mineral dusts, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci,, doi:10.1073/pnas.1608136113
Dunne, E.M., Gordon, H., Kurten, A., Almeida, J., Williamson, C., Ortega, I.K., Pringle, K.J., Adamov, A., Baltensperger, U., Barmet, P., Benduhn, F., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Clarke, A., Curtius, J., Dommen, J., Donahue, N.M., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Flagan, R.C., Franchin, A., Hansel, A., Kangasluoma, J., Kirkby, J., Kulmala, M., Kupc, A., Lehtipalo, K., Makhmutov, V., Nenes, A., Onnela, A., Rap, A. Reddington, C.L.S., Riccobono, F., Richards, N.A.D., Rissanen, M.P., Schobesberger, S., Sengupta, K., Simon, M., Stozkhov, Y., Tome, A., Trostl, J., Wagner, P.E., Winkler, P.M., Worsnop, D.R., and Carslaw, K.S. (2016) Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements, Science, doi:10.1126/science.aaf2649.
Ito, T., Nenes, A., Johnson, M. S., Meskhidze, N., Valett, J., and Deutsch, C. (2016) Late 20th century deoxygenation of the tropical Pacific enhanced by aerosol pollutants, Nature Geosci., doi:10.1038/ngeo2717
Laaksonen, A., Malila, J., Nenes, A., Hung, H.M., Chen, J.P. (2016) Surface fractal dimension, water adsorption efficiency, and cloud nucleation activity of insoluble aerosol, Sci.Rep., 6, 25504, doi:10.1038/srep25504
Sullivan, S.C., Lee, D., Oreopoulos, L., and Nenes, A (2016) The role of updraft velocity in temporal variability of cloud hydrometeor number, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci, 113, 21, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514039113
Seinfeld, J.H., Bretherton, C.S., Carslaw, K.S., Coe, H., DeMott, P.J., Dunlea, E.J., Feingold, G., Ghan, S.J., Guenther, A.B., Kahn, R.A., Kracunas, I.P., Kreidenweis, S.M., Molina, M.J., Nenes, A., Penner, J.E., Prather, K.A., Ramanathan, V., Ramaswamy, V., Rasch, P.J., Ravishankara, A.R., Rosenfeld, D., Stephens, G., Wood R. (2016) Improving Our Fundamental Understanding of the Role of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in the Climate System, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci, 113, 21, 5781-5790, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514043113
Weber, R.J., Guo, H., Russell, A.G., Nenes, A. (2016) High aerosol acidity despite declining atmospheric sulfate concentrations over the past 15 years, Nature Geosci., doi:10.1038/ngeo2665
Kerl, P., Zhang, W., Moreno-Cruz, J., Nenes, A., Realff, M., Russell, A., Sokol, J., Thomas, V.M. (2015) A New Approach for Optimal Electricity Planning and Dispatching with Hourly Time-Scale Air Quality and Health Considerations, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci., 112, 10884-10889, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413143112
Xu, L., Guo, H., Boyd, C., Bougiatioti, A., Cerully, K., Hite, J., Isaacman, G., Olson, K., Goldstein, A., Kosse, A., Gouw, J.D., Baumann, K., Knote, C., Lee, S., Weber, R., Nenes, A., Ng, N.L. (2015) Effects of Anthropogenic Emissions on Aerosol Formation from Isoprene and Monoterpenes in the Southeastern United States: Insights from SOAS and Beyond, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci., 112, 37-42, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1417609112
Raatikainen,T., Nenes,A., Seinfeld, J. H., Morales,R., Moore, R. H., Lathem, T. L., Lance, S., Padro, L. T., Lin, J. J., Cerully, K., Bougiatioti, A., Cozic, J., Ruehl, C., Chuang, P. Y., Anderson, B., Flagan, R.C., Jonsson, H., Mihalopoulos, N., and J. N. Smith (2013) Worldwide data sets constrain the water vapor uptake coefficient in cloud formation, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci., 10.1073/pnas.1219591110
Sareen, N., Schwier, A.N., Lathem, T., Nenes, A. and V. F. McNeill (2013) Surfactants from the gas phase may enhance aerosol cloud nucleation, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci., doi: 10.1073/pnas. 1204838110
DeLeon-Rodriguez, N., Lathem, T.L., Rodriguez, L.M., Barazesh, J.M., Anderson, B.E., Beyersdorf, A.J., Ziemba, L.D., Bergin, M., Nenes, A., Konstantinidis, K.T. (2013) The microbiome of the upper troposphere: species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci., doi: 10.1073/pnas.1212089110