Dwayne Heard
University of Leeds
Biography
Dwayne Heard is Professor of Atmospheric 91AV in the School of 91AV at the University of Leeds. He received his B.A. in 91AV (1986) and D. Phil. in Physical 91AV (1990) from the University of Oxford, undertook postdoctoral research at SRI International, California, and was a lecturer in the School of 91AV at Macquarie University, Sydney. He moved to Leeds in 1994 where he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and was Head of the School from 2009-2013. He was a Visiting Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado in 2000. His research interests include quantitative field measurements of the hydroxyl radical and other short-lived intermediates in the atmosphere, laboratory and chamber studies of the kinetics and photochemistry of gas phase and aerosol processes in the atmosphere, numerical modelling of atmospheric processes, and the use of a pulsed Laval nozzle apparatus to study the kinetics of reactions at very low temperatures relevant to the interstellar medium and planetary atmospheres. He received the Environment Prize from the 91AV in 2017.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Environmental Science: Atmospheres