Since June 2007 I have been working as a Post-Doc at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille in Villeneuve D'Ascq, just outside Lille, France. My work focuses on the development of a FAGE (Fluorescence Assay by Gas Expansion) instrument for the atmospheric measurement of OH and HO2 radicals by way of Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF). I work in the Laboratoire de Physicochimie des Processus de Combustion et de l'Atmosphère (Laboratory of Combustion and Atmospheric Chemistry) [PC2A] group with Dr. Christa Fittschen and Dr. Coralie Schoemaecker.
View of Place du Général de Gaulle (Grand'Place), Lille. Marie Lefrançois.
Prior to that I completed my Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leicester in the UK, where I worked on measurements of peroxy radicals (the sum of HO2 and RO2) and subsequent data analysis. I was part of the atmospheric chemistry group with Prof. Paul Monks and took part in both airborne and ground based field campaigns. I worked on two airborne campaigns - ITOP in the Azores and AMMA in Niger, Africa. For the airborne campaigns the PERCA was installed on the UK NERC/UKMO FAAM BAe-146 aircraft. I also took part in ground campaigns, living for six weeks up the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, and also working at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland.
Looking across Victoria Park towards the university, Leicester.
I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, completing my M.Chem in 2003 during which I worked on lab kinetics studies of peroxy radicals in the group of Prof. Richard Wayne. During my time at Oxford I was at Worcester College.
Worcester College grounds, Oxford.
My CV is available here, but with some personal information removed.
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