Kexin Qiu
- Email: pmkq@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Aerosol emissions from future generation aircraft and their impact on climate
- Supervisors: Dr Alex Rap, Professor Benjamin Murray, Dr Paul Field (Met Office)
Profile
I am a PhD student in the Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science and my research is funded as part of the EPSRC Aerosol Science CDT with Met Office as the CASE partner. My project aims to provide robust estimates for the climate impact of aviation caused by aerosol-cloud interactions, the climate forcing term that is currently absent from assessments of aviation climate impact.
I have a BSc in Earth Sciences and an MSc in Climate Change from University College London. For my MSc project, I investigated the air pollution from global civil aviation and its impact on climate.
During the first year of my PhD, I spent 7 months at the University of Bristol for training in Core Aerosol Science, Research Methods, and Professionalism and Translation. I then started a 3-month research project at Imperial College London in the Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling to develop aviation aerosol emission inventories.
Research interests
- Aerosol-Cloud Interaction
- Radiative Forcing of Aerosols
- Climate Modelling – Met Office Unified Model
Qualifications
- MSc Climate Change, University College London
- BSc Earth Sciences, University College London
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science