Polly Foster
- Email: P.Foster1@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Using microfluidic technology to measure and identify ice-nucleating particles
- Supervisors: Professor Benjamin Murray, Dr Mark D. Tarn, Dr Sally Peyman (Heriot-Watt University)
Profile
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