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Department of Chemistry -‐ Mentor Profile Last Updated: 29 November 2013
Dr R.Tony Cox BSc. PhD. ScD. FGS. Acad. Europaea. Retired Reader in Atmospheric Chemistry Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge College Affiliation: Darwin College
About Me I was born in 1941 and spent my schooldays in the West Midlands. I graduated in Chemistry in 1963 from the University of Manchester, and gained a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1966. I then held a postdoctoral Fellowship at NRC in Ottawa, Canada and returned to UK in 1968, joining the Environmental and Medical Sciences Division at the UKAEA Harwell Laboratory, Oxfordshire. In 1995 I joined the Chemistry Department at University of Cambridge, as Reader in Atmospheric Chemistry, starting a new research group studying chemistry of atmospheric aerosols. I retired from my academic post in 2007 having published over 200 scientific papers. I remain a member of the Department of Chemistry and continue my data evaluation work related to atmospheric chemical processes. Since coming to Cambridge in 1995 I have also pursued wider scientific interests in the environment, including natural history and ecosystems, geology and landscape. I also have interests in the history and development of science, technology and the countryside. I live with my wife, Barbara, in a converted farm complex in Barton. We cycle into town regularly. My Research Interests At Harwell I undertook research in many aspects of atmospheric chemistry and combustion chemistry, with an emphasis on laboratory studies of kinetics and photochemistry of gas phase reactions. This work contributed significantly to the understanding of depletion of the ozone layer which underpinned the Montreal Protocols for its protection by UNEP. I also contributed significantly to elucidation of the chemistry of photochemical oxidants and its significance for global tropospheric chemistry, which turns out to be important for climate change. I was a founding member of the IUPAC Data Evaluation Panel for Atmospheric Chemistry and was chairman from 1999 until 2008. Mentoring Support I Can Provide I feel my experience in research in the scientific civil service over many years, before my recent academic career over the last years, gives me a useful perspective on the application of high quality basic science to societal problems, especially to pollution of the Earth’s environment. I am happy to share this experience with young scientists with career aspirations in this area:
• Specific expertise in: gas phase kinetics and mechanism, photchemistry, physical chemistry of aerosols • Atmospheric composition; interface between chemistry, meteorology and atmospheric transport • General environmental physics; earth-‐system science • Working and managing research projects, strategy for research and resource • Career development in public/academic sector; networking • Work-‐life balance; developing wider interests
Mentoring Availability and Contact Please contact me directly at: [email protected]