
Professor Benjamin Murray
- Position: Professor of Atmospheric Science
- Areas of expertise: atmospheric ice nucleation; aerosol; aerosol-cloud interactions; ice crystal structure; glass formation; tropospheric clouds; stratospheric clouds; mesospheric clouds; cryopreservation
- Email: B.J.Murray@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 2887
- Location: 10.101 School of Earth and Environment
- Website: The Atmospheric Ice Nucleation Group | Publons | Twitter | LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
Benjamin J Murray is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds. He has over 100 papers published in the areas of ice nucleation, aerosol-cloud interactions, ice crystal structure and aerosol properties. After completing his PhD in 2004 at the University of East Anglia, Murray moved to the University of British Columbia (Canada) as a postdoctoral fellow. He was appointed as a Lecturer of Physical Chemistry in 2006 in the school of Chemistry, University of Leeds. He later moved to the School of Earth of Environment as a Reader in Aerosol Science and was promoted to full Professor in 2016.
Responsibilities
- Head of the Atmospheric Ice Nucleation group
- President of the Aerosol Society
- President of the European Aerosol Assembly
Research interests
Prof Murray researches nucleation and crystallisation throughout the Earth's atmosphere, in collaboration with aerosol and cloud modellers. Major areas of research include:
- Heterogeoeus ice nucleation on aerosol such as mineral dust, soot and biogenic materials
- Measurements of the concentration of atmospheric ice nucleating particles from airborne, ship or ground based platforms
- Global modelling of ice nucleating particle distributions
- Aerosol-cloud interactions
- Crystal structure and properties of ice which forms under atmospherically relevant conditions
- Glass formation and the role of other amorphous solids in the Earth's atmosphere
- Nucleation crystallisation from solution droplets
- Cryopreservation (including knowledge exchange with industrial partners)
- Efficient descriptions of ice nucleation for use in cloud models
- Formation of crystalline acid hydrates in stratospheric clouds
Qualifications
- MChem, University of Wales
- PhD, University of East Anglia
Professional memberships
- Aerosol Society (UK) - President
- British Association for Crystal Growth (BACG)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Student education
- Atmospheric Physics
- Atmospheric Pollution from Local to Global Scales
- Environmental Measurements
- Environmental Science/Meteorology and Climate Science Tutorials
- Frontiers in Environmental Research
- Environmental Research Project
- Masters research projects
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols