Stephanie Jones will join the Chemistry Department as an assistant professor in February 2025. Her research is focused on atmospheric aerosols and environmentally relevant surface films. In particular, she is interested in understanding how atmospheric transformations impact the fundamental properties of aerosols and films. Stephanie uses single particle levitation methods, and neutron and x-ray scattering to study transformations of aerosols and films in the laboratory to determine their fundamental physicochemical and optical properties.
Stephanie has an integrated master’s in chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK, and a PhD from Royal Holloway University of London, UK. Following her PhD, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Victoria, Canada, before moving back to the UK where she worked in industry for a brief period as a Product Manager at Laser Quantum. She then transitioned back to academia and chemistry, completing a second postdoc in environmental chemistry at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she expanded her research interests to include the indoor environment.
After successfully obtaining funding for her own position from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Stephanie then moved to the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Aerosol Research Department, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Her research at KIT has involved the study of photochemically induced transformations of wood smoke aerosol using single droplet studies and large-scale cloud simulation chamber experiments.
Stephanie is excited to return to Canada and looks forward to contributing to the atmospheric chemistry community.
