Professor Parisa A. Ariya

James McGill Professor of Atmospheric and Interfacial Chemistry
McGill equivalent to Canada Research Chair Tier I (CRC 1)

Professor, Department of Chemistry & Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tel: 514-398-6931 & 514-398-3615
Labs: Otto Mass Building 240 & Burnside Hall 820
Email: parisa.ariya@mcgill.ca

• Highest award by the Chemical Institute of Chemistry of Canada in Analytical Chemistry   (Ricardo Aroca award recipient; 2022)
• Tomlinson Award for innovation (2020)
• The Chemical Institute of Canada,  the top award in all domains of Environmental Chemistry and Technology (DIMA award recipient 2019)
• James McGill Professorship (McGill CRC Tier I equivalent), Phase II-renewal, 2019-2026
• The Canadian Society of Chemistry - Clara Benson Award recipient (2010) - The highest award to a woman chemist in Canada for contribution to any domains of Chemistry.
• James McGill Professorship - phase I (2012-2019)
• Tomlinson Award (2020)
• William Dawson Scholar, phase II (2006-2011)
• American Chemical Society Progress Award recipient (2005)
• William Dawson Scholar (McGill Equivalent to CRC Tier II), 2000-2005
• FCAR Strategic Professor-Scientist (1999-2002)
• Associate member of McGill School of Environment
• Editorial, Chemical Society Reviews, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) 
• Editor, Cambridge press book- Environmental 
• Editorial board, Sustainability
• Member of NSERC-CREATE Mine of Knowledge 
• Member of NSERC CREATE - PURE
• Member of Centre for Computational Chemistry
• Member of Compute Canada
• Member of Calcul Quebec (numerical modelling network)
• Member of Canadian Green Chemistry network
• Member of the editorial advisory board of the American Chemical Society Journal of Analytical Chemistry (ACS) 2006-2008 
• Associate editor, Geochemical (Japan), 2008-2010
• Former member of the Global Environment and Climate Change Centre , Quebec Ocean, SOLAS, etc.)

Education:

• ​Max-Planck Postdoctoral fellowship,  Max Planck Institute, Atmospheric chemistry division, Mainz, Germany, 1996-1998,                     Supervisor: Professor Paul Crutzen
• PhD. in Chemistry, 1996, Supervisors: Professor Hiromi Niki and Professor Geoff Harris, CAC, York University, Canada, recipient of NSERC, OGS, NATO, York, graduate faculty,... awards 
• Hon. B.Sc., in Chemistry,  1992, First class honours degree, Dean's honour role & recipient of CSC, SOA, NSERC, York, ... awards

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                                          News!
Some highlights of our exciting research activities and outreach in the  media around the world!
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​Congratulations from all of us to:

• Congratulations Dr. Dev for his successful Ph.D. thesis, March 2023.
• Congratulations to Zi and Mailine for excellent article in Water research on "A novel in-situ and real-time four dimensional capability for the nano and micro-plastic life cycle research", March 2023 
• Congratulations to everyone in the lab - one of our scientific discoveries (Ryan et al.) was chosen amongst the top five scientific discoveries at McGill in 2022.
• Congratulations to Ryan Hall et al., for advancing particle 4D tracking in aquatic system from viruses to oil spillage in Analytical Chemistry, 2022.
• Congratulations to Kaur et al., for ice nucleation of pharmaceutical and synthetic organic emerging contaminants: ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2022
• Congratulations to Rodrigo Rangel-Alvardo et al., for, PM2.5 decadal data in cold vs. mid-climate airports:COVID-19 era and a call for sustainable air quality policy in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022
  ​ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-022-19708-8
  The impact of selected environmental conditions,
• We acknowledge the Canadian Foundation for innovation (CFI) and Natural Science and Engineering Research Council fo Canada (NSERC-RTI) for their support. They allow us to update cutting-edge R&D infrastructure for atmospheric and surface particle  for air, aquatic and snow/ice observation, experimentation of natural and emerging contaminants, and sustainable technology development.
• Congratulations Dev for AWMA top presentation award in San Francisco, 2022.
• Congratulations to Zi and her team of student sustainability innovator for winning the top award in sustainability at McGill 2021.
• Congratulations to Dev et al, for being included in the special issue  of papers led by a woman,  Nature chemical communication.
• Welcome to Zaki, our new PhD student in the lab.
• Congratulations to Houjie, for his new paper on black carbon, 2021
• Congratulations on Zi for the best presentation award in environmental Chemistry in CIC, 2021.
• A new technological advances for observation of airborne viruses.
• Bravo to Yevgen and Dev for their work on the World Health Organization Bulleting on PM2.5.
• Congratulations to Yevgen et al. for new paper in ACS-Industrial and engineering Chemistry on development of sustainable technology natural materials, (2022).
• Congratulations to ZI for her new analytical chemistry work on advancing analytical capability for nano/microplastics in the environment which is published in Environmental Chemistry (2021)
• Thanks to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for infrastrucutre awards.
• Congratulations to four of our lab members: Zi, Houjie, Ryan and Dev for being awarded NSERC CREATE PURE PhD.
•   Check out this cool  video made by Bryan and the NSERC top award!
• Congratulations to Bryan for obtaining the highest possible rank in his master thesis.
• Congratulations to our team member, Mainak, for becoming recently a tenured professor (2019).
• Take a look at the media (scientific and public) coverage of our joint collaboration led by McGill and first authored by Rodrigo, with close collaboration with UdeM, U. Alberta and Environment and Climate Chanage Canada on the air pollution affecting weather processes in Alberta oil sand (2019).
• Congratulation to Mainak, Bryan and YuangYuang for our article being distinguished as "Very Important Arcticle" .
• Read a very cool article in natural sustainable technology that our team first authored by Mainak- a recent example using Kaolin to remove toxic metal (2019).
• Congratulations to Jim for his discovery of airborne nanomercury in Nature publishing journal of Scientific Reports (2019)
• Congratulations to Bryan to successful thesis which was distinguished, and his new job in London (2019)
• Bravo to dev for AWM scholarship (2019)
• Congratulations to Dr. Jim for a fantastic PhD defence (2019)!
• Check out our recent work on airborne nanoparticles containing emerging contaminants, emitted from Trudeau Airport, in  Environmental pollution and some coverage in media, 2019
• Check out the new  work by Mainak et al. on sustainable technology in Scientific Reports (2018)!
• Bravo to Yevgen for MITAC PDF fellowship.
• Congratulations to Dr. Uday for a great PhD defence (2018)!
• Bravo to Dr. Rodrigo on successfully defending his PhD thesis (2018)!  
• Congratulation to Dev for Alexandra Cowe award of excellence (2018).
• Roya for her recent article, which is distinguished for its significant research contribution on Faculty1000 Prime list (2018). 
• Another interview highlight (2018) at RSC chemistry education and on TV (2018)
• Congratulations to our  NSERC-CRD for -CONSORTIUM FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN AEROSPACE IN QUÉBEC prize (le coup du coeur), 2018 & Dev and Mayeesha for their work.
• Bryan for making a very cool science video and for winning the top NSERC competition prize in science & engineering in 2017 & For CSC 2017 graduate poster award.
• Congratulations to Ryan and Pal for NSERC CREATE award & Ryan for outstanding TA award.
• Mainak for FRQNT PDF fellowship, Ryan and Bryan for FRQNT (2017) & Yevgen for the Young Professional Best Paper Award at the Air & Waste Management (2016) and nominated by AFCAS for evidence by picture.
• ​Uday for wining Environment Division Graduate Poster Award in 2016 CSC meeting in Halifax!
• Jim for winning the first prize for thesis award at CSC  2016, & another prize in chemical education
• Rodrigo for FRQNT (Mexico-Canada) award (2016)
• Andrea, Jim Rodrigo, Uday and Zhenzhong  for NSERC Create (smart mine) supplement award
• Andrea for presentation award in sustainability workshop 
•  Yevgen for FRQNT postdoctoral scholarship
• Jim for NSERC PhD scholarship

        New exciting work from our research team