Professor Parisa A. Ariya

James McGill Professor of Chemistry and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (McGill equivalent to Canada Research Chair, CRC, Tier 1) 

Hon. B.Sc., 1992; PhD. 1996 (CAC, York University, Canada); Max-Planck Postdoctoral fellow: Max Planck Institute, Atmospheric chemistry division, Germany: 1996-1998
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  • William Dawson Scholar (McGill Equivalent to CRC Tier II, 1999-2011; renewed),
  • FQRNT Strategic Professor-Scientist (1999-2002)
  • American Chemical Society Progress Award (2005) 
  • Clara Benson Award of Canadian Society of Chemistry (2010)
  • An Editor, Cambridge press book- Environmental 
  • Member of NSERC-CREATE Mine of Knowledge 
  • Member of Centre for Computational Chemistry
  • Associate member of McGill School of Environment
  • Member of Compute Canada
  • Member of Calcul Quebec (numerical modelling network)
  • Associate member of FRQNT Quebec Ocean 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 , SOLAS, .... )
  • Director, AIRPUR Network on Air quality in cold-urban climate  (FRQNT Cluster)
                                           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:
  • Check out the new  work by Mainak et al. on sustainable technology in Scientific Reports (2018)!
  • Congratulations to Yevgen for MITAC PDF fellowship.
  • 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
Nice work by Dr. Hu et al.  (ACS Sust. 2016) for development of green and energy neutral recycling technique for Hg lamps) which were highlighted in both CEN news and Advances in Engineering, ground breaking work by Rodrigo, Uday Yevgen for providing evidence of nanoparticle ice nuclei (J. Geophysical Research, 2016; cover page ),(hot article; RSC-Environmental processing, 2016; Cover page, hot article); to Jim, Dan, et al., for invention of mercury mass spectrometry for chemical speciation of air borne oxidized mercury  (Analytical Chemistry),   & ..