Prof Paul S Monks

Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science

Head of Science and Engineering College

Tel : +44 (0)116 252 2141

Email: p.s.monks@le.ac.uk

Personal details

• BSc, DPhil (Oxford)
• Research Group: Atmospheric Chemistry

External positions

• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry

• Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society
• Pro Vice Chancellor and Head of College of Science and Engineering, University of Leicester
• Member of Audit Committee, (2012-) NERC
• Chair, Defra AQEG

• Member of Royal Society Global Environmental Research Committee (2012-)

• Member of Innovate UK Satellite Applications Catapult Advisory Group (2012-)
• Sole UK representative on Commission for Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution – International Body (2008-)
• UK Representative, ICACGP
• European representative, World Meteorological Organization, WMO GAW EPAC SSG
• Member of the (Defra) Science Advisory Council (SAC)

Website

• Twitter: @psmonks

Publications

• M. E. Jenkin, K. P. Wyche, C. J. Evans, T. Carr, P. S. Monks, A. R. Alfarra, M. H. Barley, G. B. McFiggans, J. C. Young, and A. R. Rickard. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 5275-5308, 2012. Development and chamber evaluation of the MCM v3.2 degradation scheme for b-caryophyllene
• Erika von Schneidemesser, Paul S. Monks, Air quality and climate – synergies and trade-offs, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts 23 May 2013 RSC Publishing
• Author(s): P.S. Monks; S. Beirle, Editor(s): J.P. Burrows; U. Platt; P. Borrell, Applications of Satellite Observations of Tropospheric Composition, Source: REMOTE SENSING OF TROPOSPHERIC COMPOSITION FROM SPACE, Book Series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments Pages: 365-449 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14791-3_8 Published: 2011
• J. Remedios, H. Balzter, J. Burrows, S. Eves, M. Johnson, S. Lavender, P.S. Monks, A. O'Neill, A. Shepherd, Earth observation: A revolutionary leap into the future, Astronomy and Geophysics 53, 3.16-3.18., 2012
• Monks, Paul S. and  Kuppusami Sharmilah Chemistry & Industry,  Vol. 76,   Issue: 3, 40-43, 2012. Simply Breath
• Iain R White, Kerry A Willis, Chris Whyte, Rebecca Cordell, Robert S Blake, Andrew J Wardlaw, Satish Rao, Jonathan Grigg, Andrew M Ellis and Paul S Monks, Real-time multi-marker measurement of organic compounds in human breath: towards fingerprinting breath J. Breath Res. 7 017112 (11pp) 2013.
• G-Step Case Studies
• The Growing Use of GMES across Europe’s Regions This can be downloaded from this web site. G-STEP has contributions on pages 30-31 and 48-49

Research

Research Group : Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Chemistry

The primary research interests are the scientific questions underlying:

• the role of photochemistry in the control of atmospheric composition
• chemistry and transpo rt, particularly the impact of long-range transport on chemical composition
• the feedbacks between climate and atmospheric chemistry
• organic complexity and the control of regional pollution and the measurement of the troposphere from space

In order to answer specific scientific questions, atmospheric measurements are taken from a range of ground-based, aircraft and satellite platforms using a suite of instruments.

Earth Observation science

The Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) brings together a partnership of UK scientists and engineers from academia and industry to develop the UK capability in Earth Observation (EO) technologies and instrumentation. It meets the key NERC and BIS objectives for the Centre and creates an environment for the submission of advanced future EO mission and instrument proposals to ESA.

The Centre is set up as a partnership led by Astrium together with QinetiQ, University of Leicester and STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Breath analysis/medical diagnostics

DDU – the Diagnostic Development Unit.

Testing patient's breath

This is a collaboration between Medicine, Space Science and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Leicester. We focus on diagnosis in emergency care - an area of medicine where there is often not time to use conventional diagnostic methods and clinical decisions about treatment have to be made without the doctor having the full information about the patient's condition.

Business-facing activities

The mission for G-STEP is to promote the use of satellite, aerial and ground monitoring Earth Observation data in order to improve regional competitiveness.

IRSA is a University of Leicester scheme designed to help accelerate the development and exploitation of new products, services, technologies, processes and markets for SMEs in the East Midlands through supported collaboration on research and development.

Partly funded by