Professor
Chemistry and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
James McGill Professor of Chemistry and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (McGill Canada Research Chair Tier I equivalent)
B.Sc. (York University, 1992)
Ph.D. (Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, York University, 1996)
MPI Postdoctoral Fellow (Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry-Atmospheric Chemistry Division, 1996-1998)
Awards
FCAR Strategic Professor-Scientist
William Dawson Scholar (McGill equivalent to CRC II) 2001-2006, and 2006-2011
ACS Progress Award 2005
Clara Benson Award (2010). Canadian society for Chemistry
Chemical Institute of Chemistry of Canada, top Analytical Chemistry (Ricardo Aroca award recipient; 2022)
Tomlinson Award for innovation (2020)
The Chemical Institute of Canada, Top Environmental Chemistry and Technology (DIMA award recipient 2019)
Contact Information
Office: Otto Maass 421
Phone: (514)398-6931 or (514)398-3615
Email: parisa.ariya [at] mcgill.ca
Lab: Otto Maass 240 & Burnside Hall 820
Lab Phone: (514) 398-6931
Web Page: Ariya Group Website
Research Themes
- Environmental Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Sustainable chemistry and technologies
- Microphysics.
Research Description
This laboratory's research is at the intersection of analytical and physical chemistry. Our laboratory's mission is to explore significant fundamental and applied research questions on physicochemical processes involving particles (in air, aka aerosols) and organic and metal pollutants of relevance to the Earth's atmosphere and its interfaces (air-snow/ice/water/soil). We also develop novel sustainable technology (natural nanoparticles, energy-neutral, and recyclable) for air and water pollution remediation, & cutting-edge technology and methods for ultra-trace detection of gaseous and particulate matter. Our direct research contributions include the following:
- Physical and analytical chemistry.
- Climate change.
- Sustainable chemistry and technology.
- Air pollution.
- Nano-science.
- Environmental health and medicine.
Our current active research R&D themes in our laboratories are that are performed by field observation, laboratory experiments, numerical modelling and sustainable technologies (sensors and Zero-net energy for pollution remediation):
- Development of novel four-dimensional technologies for particles and advancing physicochemical properties of airborne Nanoparticles (single and cluster particles) in the atmosphere and air/snow/water interfaces
- Ice nucleation microphysics: Interactions of aerosol-cloud interactions
- Urban & Arctic air pollution: Impacts on human and ecosystem health
- Emerging contaminants: Nano/microplastics, electronic waste, rare metals, nanometals etc., in air/water/ice,
- Development of sustainable technology Natural material, recyclable, energy neutral, and efficient, with detailed studies of life cycle analysis
- Bioaerosols: We develop new technologies for single virus observation in dynamic and stationary modes. We also perform experiments on RNA/DNA and genomic of airborne particles, as well as those in air/water/snow
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