Chiara Giorio

Chiara Giorio (born 1984) is an Italian atmospheric chemist who is an Assistant Professor in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/fellowshttps://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college/people/fellows/dr-chiara-giorio Her research is focused on the chemistry of the Earth’s atmosphere and its impact on air quality and climate.
==Early Life & Education==
Giorio was born and grew up in Vicenza (Italy). She attended the “Liceo Scientifico G.B. Quadri” where she became interested in Chemistry. She then studied at the University of Padova where she received her Bachelor’s degree in 2006 and Master’s degree in 2008 in chemistry. Giorio attained a PhD in Molecular Sciences from the University of Padova on 28 February 2012. During her PhD, Giorio studied the chemical composition of individual airborne particles and used receptor modeling techniques to apportion their sources.
==Research & Career==
After her studies, Giorio became a postdoc at the University of Padova where she worked on the environmental dispersion of neonicotinoid insecticides through dust emitted by seeders during the sowing of corn seeds treated with neonicotinoids, and the consequential in-flight contamination and acute toxicity for honeybees https://doi.org/10.1021/es2035152https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-012-6338-3https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0418.2012.01718.x. She also worked on assessing the usability and environmental impact of vineyard pruning residues as an energy source https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.01.128.
In 2013, Giorio transferred to the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry in Markus Kalberer research group. In Cambridge, Giorio‘s research was focused on determining the chemical composition and formation processes of secondary organic aerosols. She developed a method for the quantification of the highly reactive Criegee intermediates produced by ozonolysis reactions in the atmosphere https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b10981 and she studied the impact of aqueous phase processing on aerosol composition https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05933.
In January 2017, Dr. Giorio became a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and later that year, became tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Padova. As of March 2020, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/group/giorio/people, leading her own research group https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/group/giorio.
Research in Giorio’s Research Group is focused on the chemistry of the Earth’s atmosphere and its impact on air quality and climate. In particular, the group studies coordination chemistry in atmospheric aerosols and cloud/fog droplets, source apportionment of atmospheric aerosol using receptor models, indoor air quality, greenhouse gases emissions, and organic compounds in ice cores as proxies for paleoclimate reconstruction https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/group/giorio/research.
==Selected Publications==
* Giorio C, Doussin JF, D’Anna B, Mas S, Filippi D, Denjean C, Mallet MD, Bourrianne T, Burnet F, Cazaunau M, Chikwililwa C, Desboeufs K, Feron A, Michoud V, Namwoonde A, Andreae MO, Piketh SJ, Formenti P (2022) Butene Emissions From Coastal Ecosystems May Contribute to New Particle Formation. Geophys Res Lett 49:. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098770
* Giorio C, Bortolini C, Kourtchev I, Tapparo A, Bogialli S, Kalberer M (2019) Direct target and non-target analysis of urban aerosol sample extracts using atmospheric pressure photoionisation high-resolution mass spectrometry. Chemosphere 224:786–795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.02.151
* Giorio C, Kehrwald N, Barbante C, Kalberer M, King ACF, Thomas ER, Wolff EW, Zennaro P (2018) Prospects for reconstructing paleoenvironmental conditions from organic compounds in polar snow and ice. Quat Sci Rev 183:1–22 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.01.007
* Giorio C, Monod A, Brégonzio-Rozier L, DeWitt HL, Cazaunau M, Temime-Roussel B, Gratien A, Michoud V, Pangui E, Ravier S, Zielinski AT, Tapparo A, Vermeylen R, Claeys M, Voisin D, Kalberer M, Doussin J-F (2017) Cloud Processing of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Isoprene and Methacrolein Photooxidation. J Phys Chem A 121:7641–7654. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05933
* Harrison RM, Giorio C, Beddows DCS, Dall’Osto M (2010) Size distribution of airborne particles controls outcome of epidemiological studies. Sci Total Environ 409:289–293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.043
Category:1984 births
Category:Italian people
Category:University of Padua alumni
Category:Atmospheric chemists