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Joost de Gouw
Professor
CIRES & Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder
PhD in Physics, University of Utrecht, 1994
Visit: Room 354, Cristol Chemistry
Mail: CIRES, Campus Box 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309
Phone: 303-492-9422
Email: Joost.deGouw@colorado.edu
Joost de Gouw
Joost de Gouw is a Professor with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the Department of Chemistry of the University of Colorado Boulder. He received a PhD in Physics from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. After a postdoctoral appointment with the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a research faculty appointment with the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Utrecht, he joined CIRES in 2001 and worked as a Research Scientist with the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory for 17 years. In 2018, he became a Professor with CIRES and the Department of Chemistry and is continuing his research on the campus of CU Boulder.
Joost de Gouw's personal research interests are focused on the sources and chemical transformations of organic compounds in the atmosphere, and the role that these processes play in air quality and climate change. To study these processes, he uses field measurements of volatile organic compounds by mass spectrometry and gas chromatography from various platforms including research aircraft. His current projects include the formation of secondary species including organic aerosol from anthropogenic and biogenic precursors, the atmospheric impacts of energy sources such as corn ethanol, shale oil and natural gas, and the characterization of biomass burning emissions, and the emissions and chemical transformations of VOCs in indoor environments.
Joost de Gouw has served as Principal and co-Principal Investigator on several NOAA field missions including the Southeast Nexus (SENEX) study in 2013 and the Shale Oil and Natural Gas Nexus (SONGNEX) study in 2015. He has been a Fellow of CIRES since 2008 and has served as Associate Director of CIRES' Environmental Chemistry Division since 2013. Dr. de Gouw was an Editor of the American Geophysical Union's Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres from 2009 until 2013. He received the CIRES Outstanding Performance Award in 2007, was a co-recipient of the Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research in 2012, 2014 and 2022, and received an honorary mention in 2018. In 2017 and 2018, Joost de Gouw was named a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics. In 2020, Joost de Gouw was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Publications: Web of Science and Google Scholar