Colin O'Dowd#
| Membership Number: | 4759 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.macehead.org/images/CV_ODowd_March_2018_Latest%20all%20parts.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Personal Professor (Physics), National University of Ireland Galway
- 2006 - 2009 Senior Lecturer, National University of Ireland Galway
- 2004 - 2005 Lecturer, National University of Ireland Galway
- 2001 - 2004 Adjunct Professor, Physics, National University of Ireland Galway
- 2001 - 2002 Professor of Physics, University of Helsinki
- 2000 - 2001 Senior Scientist, University of Helsinki
- 1996 - 2001 Senior Research Fellow, University of Sunderland
- 1992 - 1996 Research Associate, University of Manchester, Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST)
Fields of Scholarship
- Atmospheric composition
- Air-sea exchange
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Air pollution
- Atmospheric aerosols
- Climate change
Honours and Awards
- 2018 NUI Galway President's award for research excellence
- 2016 Mason medal awarded by the Royal Meteorological Society
- 2013 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in Geosciences
- 2012 Appleton Award & Medal recipient from Institute of Physics
- 2010 Member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA)
- 2007 Recipient of DSc from the University of Manchester
- 2004 German Aerosol Society International Smoluchowski Award winne
- 2003 Fellow Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS)
- 2002 Fellow Institute of Physics (FInsP)
