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Colette Heald is a Full Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry and a faculty member at ETH Zurich. Born in 1977 in Montréal, Canada, she obtained her undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University in 2000 and completed her PhD in Earth Planetary Science at Harvard University in 2005. Her academic career includes a postdoctoral fellowship with NOAA focused on climate and global change at the University of California Berkeley (2006-2007). Heald served as an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University from 2008 to 2011 and subsequently held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor and then a Full Professor from 2012 to 2023. She has been recognized for her contributions to geosciences with the American Geophysical Union’s James B. Macelwane Medal and is a Fellow of the AGU. Her teaching and mentoring efforts have earned her multiple awards, including the Maseeh Excellence Teaching Award and the Distinguished Service Leadership Award. Heald's research interests lie in global tropospheric chemistry, focusing on atmospheric aerosol sources, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and chemistry-climate interactions.
ETH Zurich • Zürich, Switzerland
Professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Full Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Colorado State University • Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science.
University of California Berkeley • Berkeley, California, USA
NOAA Climate Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.
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