Welcome to the Donaldson Group Home Page
In our lab, we are
interested in chemistry that happens on surfaces which are exposed to the
atmosphere, as well as photochemistry which takes place following vibrational excitation of atmospheric molecules. We
use tools from physical, analytical and theoretical chemistry to try to
understand the processes which take place at the interface between the
atmosphere and a condensed phase, especially aqueous droplets and organic
coatings. We use spectroscopic and theoretical methods to study the chemistry
of vibrationally excited molecules in the
atmosphere.
There are openings available
for graduate and undergraduate students at this time. See the listings
below for details. Undergraduate students should also consider applying through
one of the Summer research programmes, hosted by the
Departments of Chemistry and of Physics
Current research projects:
1. Chemical
interactions at the surfaces of model atmospheric aqueous particles ** student opening!! **
3. Direct and indirect
photochemistry of pollutants in snow
4. Investigating
the water-sorbing ability of organic compounds - an approach to
quantitative cloud particle formation
5. Vibrational
photochemistry in the atmosphere