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Environmental Sciences
Switzerland
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
114
Citations
46372
World Ranking
167
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Athanasios Nenes is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research centers primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specific focus on atmospheric science as demonstrated by numerous publications and topics covered.

Their work includes contributions to atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality monitoring and forecasting, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and infection control and ventilation.

Frequent publication venues for Athanasios Nenes include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS ES&T Air

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nenes include:

  • "The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin," 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Acidity and the multiphase chemistry of atmospheric aqueous particles and clouds," 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Rapid dark aging of biomass burning as an overlooked source of oxidized organic aerosol," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Aerosol pH and liquid water content determine when particulate matter is sensitive to ammonia and nitrate availability," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Spyros Ν. Pandis
  • Kalliopi Violaki
  • Ghislain Motos
  • Beiping Luo
  • Aline Schaub

The primary fields of study for Nenes are environmental science with 180 publications and earth and planetary sciences with 164 publications. Their subfields of study encompass atmospheric science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Athanasios Nenes was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Organic aerosol and global climate modelling: a review

    M. Kanakidou;J. H. Seinfeld;S. N. Pandis;I. Barnes

  • ISORROPIA II: a computationally efficient thermodynamic equilibrium model for K + –Ca 2+ –Mg 2+ –NH 4 + –Na + –SO 4 2− –NO 3 − –Cl − –H 2 O aerosols

    Christos Fountoukis;A. Nenes

  • ISORROPIA: A New Thermodynamic Equilibrium Model for Multiphase Multicomponent Inorganic Aerosols

    Athanasios Nenes;Spyros N. Pandis;Christodoulos Pilinis

  • A Continuous-Flow Streamwise Thermal-Gradient CCN Chamber for Atmospheric Measurements

    G. C. Roberts;A. Nenes

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Effects of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol formation from isoprene and monoterpenes in the southeastern United States

    Lu Xu;Hongyu Guo;Christopher M. Boyd;Mitchel Klein

  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds

    Havala O. T. Pye;Athanasios Nenes;Becky Alexander;Andrew P. Ault

  • Fine-particle water and pH in the southeastern United States

    H. Guo;L. Xu;A. Bougiatioti;A. Bougiatioti;K. M. Cerully

  • Highly Acidic Ambient Particles, Soluble Metals, and Oxidative Potential: A Link between Sulfate and Aerosol Toxicity

    Ting Fang;Hongyu Guo;Linghan Zeng;Vishal Verma

  • Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements

    Eimear M. Dunne;Hamish Gordon;Andreas Kürten;João Almeida;João Almeida

  • Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications

    Natasha DeLeon-Rodriguez;Terry L. Lathem;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;James M. Barazesh

  • High aerosol acidity despite declining atmospheric sulfate concentrations over the past 15 years

    Rodney J. Weber;Hongyu Guo;Armistead G. Russell;Athanasios Nenes

  • Particle phase acidity and oligomer formation in secondary organic aerosol.

    Song Gao;Nga L. Ng;Melita D. Keywood;Varuntida Varutbangkul

  • Evolution of brown carbon in wildfire plumes

    Haviland Forrister;Jiumeng Liu;Jiumeng Liu;Eric Scheuer;Jack Dibb

  • Phytoplankton and Cloudiness in the Southern Ocean

    Nicholas Meskhidze;Athanasios Nenes

  • Continued development and testing of a new thermodynamic aerosol module for urban and regional air quality models

    Athanasios Nenes;Spyros N. Pandis;Christodoulos Pilinis

  • Parameterization of cloud droplet formation in global climate models

    Athanasios Nenes;Athanasios Nenes;John H. Seinfeld

  • A critical evaluation of proxy methods used to estimate the acidity of atmospheric particles

    C. J. Hennigan;J. Izumi;A. P. Sullivan;R. J. Weber

  • Iron mobilization in mineral dust: Can anthropogenic SO2 emissions affect ocean productivity?

    N. Meskhidze;W. L. Chameides;A. Nenes;G. Chen

  • Mapping the operation of the DMT continuous flow CCN counter

    S. Lance;A. Nenes;J. Medina;J. N. Smith

  • Continued development of a cloud droplet formation parameterization for global climate models

    Christos Fountoukis;Athanasios Nenes

  • Secondary Ice Production: Current State of the Science and Recommendations for the Future

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;R. P. Lawson;P. R. A. Brown;G. Lloyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Aikaterini Bougiatioti
Aikaterini Bougiatioti National Observatory of Athens
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Rodney J. Weber
Rodney J. Weber Georgia Institute of Technology
Spyros N. Pandis
Spyros N. Pandis University of Patras
Armistead G. Russell
Armistead G. Russell Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard C. Flagan
Richard C. Flagan California Institute of Technology
Maria Kanakidou
Maria Kanakidou University of Crete
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Nikos Mihalopoulos
Nikos Mihalopoulos National Observatory of Athens
Armin Sorooshian
Armin Sorooshian University of Arizona

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