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Alexandria Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, specializing in atmospheric science. She completed her PhD in Atmospheric Science at Purdue University in 2014 and earned her BS in Physics, Cum Laude, from Michigan Technological University in 2009. Her research expertise includes airborne measurements of water vapor in pre-depression areas of the Atlantic, laboratory studies of water ice nucleation, and high-resolution single cloud models. Currently, her research interests encompass clouds and atmospheres on Earth and Mars, the properties and formation of clouds in exoplanetary atmospheres, and the early lunar atmosphere on Titan, particularly focusing on the microphysics of methane-ethane-nitrogen clouds. Johnson has developed a novel single particle light scattering instrument designed to measure atmospheric particulates such as clouds and aerosols and their interactions with radiation in diverse planetary atmospheres. She has received several honors, including the Simons Foundation Collaboration Origins of Life Instrument Grant in 2016 and was awarded 2nd Place in the MIT Postdocs Share Science competition in the same year.
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