Polly Foster

Polly Foster

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Postgraduate Researcher in the Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), researching ice nucleation.

Polly graduated from University of Leeds in 2021 with a First Class BSc in Meteorology and Climate Science before joining the Aerosol Science CDT. She works in instrument development for the study of ice-nucleating particles (INPs), specifically the use of microfluidic instrumentation to quantify and identify INPs. Polly also has a keen interest in collecting field measurements, experience includes sampling aerosol on the FAAM aircraft during the M-Phase campaign, and leading a proof-of-principle campaign in Iceland for the integration of aerosol sampling equipment onto a vertically profiling UAS. 

This research is funded as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Aerosol Science, and the NERC Arctic Office. 

Research interests

  • Atmospheric ice-nucleation 
  • Aerosol sampling and detection 
  • Aerosol-cloud interactions
  • Microfluidic technology 
  • High latitude dust
  • Bioaerosol 

Qualifications

  • BSc Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Leeds

Research groups and institutes

  • Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science