Biography
V. Faye McNeill is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Professor of Climate at Columbia University. She is also Principal Investigator of the Columbia University Clean Air Toolbox for Cities Initiative. The McNeill Group's research comprises laboratory, numerical modeling, and field studies focused on atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and air quality. McNeill received her B.S. in Ch.E. from Caltech in 1999 and her PhD in Ch.E. from MIT in 2005, where she was a NASA Earth System Science Fellow. From 2005-2007 she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Awards she has received include the NSF CAREER (2009), Kenneth T. Whitby Award of AAAR (2015) and the Mellichamp Emerging Leaders lectureship at UCSB in 2018. She was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2023 and Fellow of AAAR in 2024. She is the Associate Editor in charge of Atmospheric Chemistry for ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. She has served in multiple elected officer positions in AIChE, AAAR, and AGU, including President of AAAR (2023-2024). She is an appointed member of the IUPAC panel on atmospheric chemical kinetic data evaluation.