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7 April 2020
Dr. Allison C. Aiken Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of Atmosphere

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Allison C. Aiken has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling” of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). Her term started in March 2020.

Dr. Allison C. Aiken
Affiliation: Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Website: https://www.lanl.gov/expertise/profiles/view/allison-aiken
E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Allison C. Aiken received her Diploma from Furman University in 2002, and her Ph.D. from University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2008. She has been Senior Research Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, since 2018. She is one of the most highly cited authors in 2014.

Her main research activities include:

  • Harnessing state-of-the-art aerosol and trace gas signatures for aerosol processes and national security;
  • Development of revolutionary elemental analysis methods and their application to ambient aerosol sampling;
  • Specializing in single-particle in situ aerosol measurements and their complex data analysis, including through mass spectrometry, photoacoustic spectroscopy, single-particle laser-induced incandescence, etc.;
  • Over 15 years of expertise in the field and laboratory regarding online direct aerosol measurement;
  • Managing the operations of ~40 aerosol and gas-phase instruments for the US DOE ARM Program;
  • A decade of experience measuring aerosol optical properties (e.g., black carbon, brown carbon, and dust).

Amongst her numerous appointments and activities, she serves as Co-Chair of the User Executive Committee, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM), and member of ARM-ASR Coordination Team (AACT), US DOE Office of Science, and also Board Member and Executive Committee Treasurer-elect in AAAR.

The editorial team warmly welcomes Dr. Allison C. Aiken as the Editor-in-Chief of the “Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling”, and looks forward to her contribution to the continued success of Atmosphere. For further information on the journal sections, please click here.

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