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Colette Heald is a Full Professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. She completed her undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics at Queen's University, Canada, in 2000 and earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from Harvard University in 2005. Following her doctorate, she held a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2006 to 2007. Colette served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University from 2008 to 2011 and was subsequently an Associate Professor and later a Full Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from 2012 to 2023. She joined ETH Zurich in 2024. Her research focuses on global tropospheric chemistry, atmospheric aerosol sources, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and chemistry-climate interactions. Colette has received several accolades throughout her career, including the American Geophysical Union’s James B. Macelwane Medal for early career contributions to geosciences and multiple teaching awards during her tenure at MIT.
ETH Zurich • Zürich
Joined faculty as a Full Professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, Massachusetts
Served in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Colorado State University • Fort Collins, Colorado
Held position in the Department of Atmospheric Science.
University of California Berkeley • Berkeley, California
Participated in research on climate change.
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