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Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker

Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker

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2025

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D-Index
47
Citations
9723
World Ranking
384
National Ranking
64

Environmental Sciences

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52
Citations
11977
World Ranking
4429
National Ranking
1648

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science, with a notable concentration on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Their research themes include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications across leading venues in atmospheric and environmental sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environmental Science Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Science Advances
  • Accounts of Chemical Research

Coauthorship collaborations appear significant within their research network, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Joel A. Thornton
  • Claudia Mohr
  • Veronika Pospíšilová
  • Siegfried Schobesberger
  • David M. Bell

Among recent notable papers, the following illustrate the scope and interdisciplinary nature of their work:

  • On the fate of oxygenated organic molecules in atmospheric aerosol particles, 2020, Science Advances
  • Evaluating Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with a Combined Molecular Composition and Volatility Framework Using the Filter Inlet for Gases and Aerosols (FIGAERO), 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Predicting secondary organic aerosol phase state and viscosity and its effect on multiphase chemistry in a regional-scale air quality model, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in remote regions of the atmosphere, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Resolving Ambient Organic Aerosol Formation and Aging Pathways with Simultaneous Molecular Composition and Volatility Observations, 2020, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Best Publications

  • A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol

    Mikael Ehn;Joel A. Thornton;Einhard Kleist;Mikko Sipila

  • An Iodide-Adduct High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Chemical-Ionization Mass Spectrometer: Application to Atmospheric Inorganic and Organic Compounds

    Ben H. Lee;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Claudia Mohr;Theo Kurtén

  • A novel method for online analysis of gas and particle composition: description and evaluation of a Filter Inlet for Gases and AEROsols (FIGAERO)

    F. D. Lopez-Hilfiker;C. Mohr;M. Ehn;M. Ehn;F. Rubach

  • Evaluation of a New Reagent-Ion Source and Focusing Ion-Molecule Reactor for Use in Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry.

    Jordan Krechmer;Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Manuel Hutterli

  • Contribution of nitrated phenols to wood burning brown carbon light absorption in Detling, United Kingdom during winter time.

    Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Peter Zotter;André S. H. Prévôt

  • Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

    Ben H. Lee;Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Anna Lutz

  • The role of chlorine in global tropospheric chemistry

    Xuan Wang;Daniel J. Jacob;Sebastian D. Eastham;Melissa P. Sulprizio

  • Monoterpenes are the largest source of summertime organic aerosol in the southeastern United States

    Haofei Zhang;Haofei Zhang;Lindsay D. Yee;Ben H. Lee;Michael P. Curtis

  • A large and ubiquitous source of atmospheric formic acid

    D. B. Millet;M. Baasandorj;D. K. Farmer;J. A. Thornton

  • Fine particle pH and the partitioning of nitric acid during winter in the northeastern United States

    Hongyu Guo;Amy P. Sullivan;Pedro Campuzano-Jost;Pedro Campuzano-Jost;Jason C. Schroder;Jason C. Schroder

  • Molecular Composition and Volatility of Organic Aerosol in the Southeastern U.S.: Implications for IEPOX Derived SOA

    F. D. Lopez-Hilfiker;C. Mohr;E. L. D’Ambro;A. Lutz

  • Constraining the sensitivity of iodide adduct chemical ionization mass spectrometry to multifunctional organic molecules using the collision limit and thermodynamic stability of iodide ion adducts

    Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Siddharth Iyer;Claudia Mohr;Ben H. Lee

  • Chemical feedbacks weaken the wintertime response of particulate sulfate and nitrate to emissions reductions over the eastern United States

    Viral Shah;Lyatt Jaeglé;Joel A. Thornton;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker

  • Molecular identification of organic vapors driving atmospheric nanoparticle growth.

    Claudia Mohr;Joel A. Thornton;Arto Heitto;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker

  • Phase partitioning and volatility of secondary organic aerosol components formed from α-pinene ozonolysis and OH oxidation: the importance of accretion products and other low volatility compounds

    F. D. Lopez-Hilfiker;C. Mohr;C. Mohr;M. Ehn;M. Ehn;F. Rubach

  • Organic nitrate aerosol formation via NO 3 + biogenic volatile organic compounds in the southeastern United States

    B. R. Ayres;H. M. Allen;H. M. Allen;D. C. Draper;D. C. Draper;S. S. Brown

  • An extractive electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (EESI-TOF) for online measurement of atmospheric aerosol particles

    Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Veronika Pospisilova;Wei Huang;Markus Kalberer;Markus Kalberer

  • Heterogeneous N2O5 Uptake During Winter: Aircraft Measurements During the 2015 WINTER Campaign and Critical Evaluation of Current Parameterizations

    Erin E. McDuffie;Erin E. McDuffie;Erin E. McDuffie;Dorothy L. Fibiger;Dorothy L. Fibiger;William P. Dubé;William P. Dubé;Felipe Lopez‐Hilfiker

  • Anthropogenic enhancements to production of highly oxygenated molecules from autoxidation

    Havala O. T. Pye;Havala O. T. Pye;Emma L. D’Ambro;Ben H. Lee;Siegfried Schobesberger;Siegfried Schobesberger

  • On the fate of oxygenated organic molecules in atmospheric aerosol particles

    Veronika Pospisilova;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;David M. Bell;I. El Haddad

  • A Chemical Ionization High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Coupled to a Micro Orifice Volatilization Impactor (MOVI-HRToF-CIMS) for Analysis of Gas and Particle-Phase Organic Species

    Reddy L. N. Yatavelli;Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker;Julia D. Wargo;Joel R. Kimmel

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel A. Thornton
Joel A. Thornton University of Washington
Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Pedro Campuzano-Jost
Pedro Campuzano-Jost University of Colorado Boulder
Claudia Mohr
Claudia Mohr ETH Zurich
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Siegfried Schobesberger
Siegfried Schobesberger University of Eastern Finland
Lyatt Jaeglé
Lyatt Jaeglé University of Washington
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Glenn M. Wolfe
Glenn M. Wolfe University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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