Eva Pfannerstill – Emissions in transition: Tracing air quality-climate links from cities to forests
May 19 @ 16:30 - 18:00
CESOC cordially invites you to the inaugural lecture of Professor Eva Pfannerstill from the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, titled:
Emissions in transition: Tracing air quality-climate links from cities to forests
Date: 19 May 2025
Time: 16:30 CEST
Location: Lecture Hall 4.001 (4th floor), Höninger Weg 100, 50969 Cologne
It will also be streamed via zoom:
for online participation, please contact info@cesoc.net
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Abstract
Thousands of organic gases are released into the atmosphere from both human activities and natural sources. These emissions fuel complex chemical reactions that influence air quality and climate. As societies transition to cleaner energy and ecosystems respond to climate stress, the composition and sources of these emissions are shifting. This lecture will explore how airborne measurements offer powerful tools to track these emissions – from cities to stressed forests – and how they can also uncover disparities in air pollution experienced by different demographic and socio-economic groups.
Bio
Eva Pfannerstill started her Helmholtz Investigator Group at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Institute of Climate and Energy Systems 3: Troposphere) in October 2024. She received her doctorate in atmospheric chemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, investigating atmospheric reactivity in the Amazon forest and in the Middle East. She performed her first airborne flux measurements as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley. She is passionate about science outreach and also is a co-coordinator of the GEIA (Global Emissions Initiative) VOC Working Group.