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William (Bill) Bloss

PROFESSOR of ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

University of Birmingham

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This is my personal research site.  University page here

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Atmospheric processing affects the current and future composition of our air, with impacts upon human and environmental health, air quality and climate.

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My group's work improves scientific understanding of the causes of poor air quality, and hence the development of effective policy measures for Clean Air.  We focus upon the sources of atmospheric pollutants, and the chemical processes which remove some air pollutants and produce others.

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Introduction

 

Atmospheric processing affects the current and future composition of our air, with impacts upon human and environmental health, air quality and climate.  My research group addresses areas of atmospheric chemistry and clean air science and policy, including

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- Understanding the sources and transformations of air pollutants in the urban atmosphere, ranging from trends in the UK to developing megacities such as Delhi

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- Quantifying the sources and sinks for atmospheric oxidants: impacts from processes such as new reactive nitrogen emissions and particulate-mediated renoxification

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- Applying air pollution science to improve local and regional air quality policy measures

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Our work combines atmospheric field measurements, simulation chamber and laboratory studies and numerical modelling approaches.  Fundamental understanding of the atmospheric chemical system is placed in an applied context: working with partners to apply clean air science for improved human and environmental health.

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This is my personal research website.  Please also see my official University of Birmingham homepage, and links from there to related work by colleagues.  Scroll down for news, current projects and research group members.

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Opportunities: I'm happy to discuss ideas for PhD research projects and applications for funded fellowship schemes, but please be aware we do not have funding other than for openly advertised positions.  Please send me an email (ideally with your CV and an outline of your interests and ideas).  Our funded job opportunities within research projects / the group, and any funding for PhD study, will always be advertised externally through sites like jobs.ac.uk,  on the University jobs pages, and via the NERC CENTA Doctoral Training Partnership for PhD funding.

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Research Projects
Current Research Projects
WM-Air

WM-Air: Clean Air Science for the West Midlands

WM-Air is a five-year impact-focussed project applying environmental science expertise to deliver improved air quality and health across the West Midlands, working in partnership with over 20 public and private sector stakeholder organisations.

ASAP-Delhi
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Air Pollutant Sources in the Delhi NCR

ASAP-Delhi is assessing the sources, formation process, burden and characteristics of air pollutants in Delhi, with a philosophy of deriving pollutant source, budget and behaviour insights from direct atmospheric observations.

ARNA

Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Cycling over the Ocean

Photoenhanced reactions on aerosol particle surfaces may convert NOx sinks into NOx precursors, changing atmospheric oxidising capacity.  We are investigating this new mechanism in the laboratory and through field measurements at the Cape Verde atmospheric observatory.

BAQS / OSCA

Birmingham Air Quality Supersite (BAQS)

BAQS is one of three national urban air quality supersites, providing detailed online characterisation of air pollution levels, responses to policy interventions and emerging trends

CLEETS

Clean Energy & Equitable Transport Solutions

The new NSK-UKRI Global Centre for Clean Energy & Equitable Transport Solutions, CLEETS, launched in late 2023.  More info here.

Research Group

Research Group (See also WM-Air Team)

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Dr Jian Zhong

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

WM-Air Project / EU RI-Urbans

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Dr Roberto Sommariva

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Modelling Indoor Air Quality - IAQ-EMS project led by Christian Pfrang

Personal Website

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Dr Joe Acton

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

WM-Air Impact Fellow & Measurement of air pollutants

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Dr Siqi Hou

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Birmingham Air Quality Supersite (BAQS)

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Dr Deepchandra Srivastava

Sources & Characteristics of PM

PM Source Apportionment in Delhi and Birmingham

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Maryam Makanvand

Doctoral Researcher

Air Quality and Health

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Lara Dunn

Doctoral Researcher

Measurements of Biogenic VOCs

Led by Julia Lehmann, Chemistry

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Dr Vipul Lal Chandani

Research Fellow

Air Pollution

Research Group Alumni

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Former PhD / Graduate Students
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Dr Vasileios Matthaios

Assistant Professor at the University of Liverpool​

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Dr Nicole Cowell

Postdoc at Imperial College London​

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Dr Karn Vohra

Postdoc at UCL​

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Dr Helen Pearce​

Now at Air Quality Consultants

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Dr Manna AlWadei​

Lecturer at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia â€‹

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Dr Steven Thomson

Now at Babcock

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Dr Tara Rasoul

ClNO2 Modelling

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Dr Danny Blenkhorn

Now at Kore Technology Ltd

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Dr Lubna Al-Saadi

Lecturer at the University of Qatar

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Dr Hao Huang

Air Monitors UK / ACOEM

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Dr Jian Zhong

WM-Air Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

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Dr Suad Al-Kindi

Lecturer at Higher College of Technology, Muscat, Oman​

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Dr Salim Alam

Assistant Prof at University of Nottingham

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Dr Vivien Bright

Research Scientist at UK Met Office​

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Dr Kate Faloon

Postdoc positions at Leicester and Leeds / NCAS

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Lucy Concannon

MPhil student: Azko Nobel

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Former Postdocs

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Dr Andrea Mazzeo

Now at Lancaster University

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Dr Louisa Kramer

Now at Ricardo AEA

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Dr Leigh Crilley

Now at York University, Toronto

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Dr Mike Newland

Postdoc positions at UEA and the University of York

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Dr Marie Camredon

Lecturer at LISA, Paris

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Dr Juan Najera

CIBION, Buenos Aires

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Dr Shana Saha

BSP Optical Performance Centre, Birmingham

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Dr Catherine Bale

Postdoc at the University of Leeds

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SKILLS

William Bloss - Biography

Biography
Publications

Google Scholar

Web-of-Science / Reseacher-ID Profile

ORCID

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Research Funding

UKRI funding via Grants-on-the-Web

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Career

Professor of Atmospheric Science,

Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of College, Life and Environmental Sciences

University of Birmingham

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2007+ :  University of Birmingham

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2001 - 2006: Research Fellow; Lecturer, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds. 

 

1999 - 2001: Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 

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1995 - 1999: Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), University of Cambridge

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1992 - 1995: BA (Natural Sciences – Chemistry), University of Cambridge.

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1991 - 1992: Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratory

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Professional

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Strategic Advisory Board, RESAS Scotland

Clean Air Advisory Panel for Wales​

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

Chair, RSC Environmental Chemistry Group (2013 - 2015)

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