Prof. Dr. Colette Heald

Prof. Dr.  Colette Heald

Prof. Dr. Colette Heald

Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
Deputy head of Inst. Atmospheric and Climate Science

ETH Zürich

Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima

CHN O 11

Universitätstrasse 16

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

  • Global tropospheric chemistry
  • Atmospheric aerosol sources, chemistry, and physics
  • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
  • Chemistry-climate interactions

Colette Heald is Full Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science.

She was born in 1977 in Montréal, Canada.

Colette Heald received her undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University in Canada in 2000, and her PhD in Earth and Planetary Science from Harvard University in 2005. She held the NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley from 2006-2007. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University from 2008-2011. She held the position of Associate Professor (2012-2015) and Full Professor (2015-2023) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joined the faculty at ETH in 2024.

In 2015 Colette Heald was awarded the American Geophysical Union’s James B. Macelwane Medal for early career contributions to the geosciences. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. At MIT her contributions to teaching, mentoring, and leadership have been recognized as a recipient of the Maseeh Excellence in Teaching Award (2016), the Committed to Caring Faculty Award (2020), the Distinguished Service and Leadership Award (2022), and the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence and Advising (2022).

 

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Group Webpage: https://iac.ethz.ch/group/atmospheric-chemistry.html

Course Catalogue

Autumn Semester 2024

Number Unit
651-4095-01L Colloquium Atmosphere and Climate 1
651-4095-02L Colloquium Atmosphere and Climate 2
651-4095-03L Colloquium Atmosphere and Climate 3
701-0471-AAL Atmospheric Chemistry
701-0471-01L Atmospheric Chemistry
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