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Overview

Pierre Amato is affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial contributions in subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, ecology, global and planetary change, and sociology and political science.

Their scholarly output includes work centered on key topics like indoor air quality and microbial exposure, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, microbial community ecology and physiology, climate change communication and perception, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, and air quality and health impacts.

Recent publications by Pierre Amato include:

  • Microbial ecology of the atmosphere, 2022, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Seasonal shift in airborne microbial communities, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Cézeaux-Aulnat-Opme-Puy De Dôme: a multi-site for the long-term survey of the tropospheric composition and climate change, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Biodegradation by bacteria in clouds: an underestimated sink for some organics in the atmospheric multiphase system, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Sensitivities to biological aerosol particle properties and ageing processes: potential implications for aerosol-cloud interactions and optical properties, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierre Amato include Muriel Joly, Florent Rossi, Raphaëlle Péguilhan, Jean-Luc Baray, and Barbara Ervens.

Their research has been published extensively in venues such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, The Science of The Total Environment, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, and Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • Microorganisms isolated from the water phase of tropospheric clouds at the Puy de Dôme: major groups and growth abilities at low temperatures.

    Pierre Amato;Marius Parazols;Martine Sancelme;Paolo Laj

  • Bacterial characterization of the snow cover at Spitzberg, Svalbard.

    Pierre Amato;Raphaëlle Hennebelle;Olivier Magand;Martine Sancelme

  • Microbial population in cloud water at the Puy de Dôme: Implications for the chemistry of clouds

    Pierre Amato;Matthieu Ménager;Martine Sancelme;Paolo Laj

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: chemical interactions of primary biological aerosols

    Laurent Deguillaume;M. Leriche;Pierre Amato;P. A. Ariya

  • Potential impact of microbial activity on the oxidant capacity and organic carbon budget in clouds

    Mickael Vaïtilingom;Laurent Deguillaume;Virginie Vinatier;Martine Sancelme

  • A short overview of the microbial population in clouds: Potential roles in atmospheric chemistry and nucleation processes

    Anne-Marie Delort;Anne-Marie Delort;Mickael Vaïtilingom;Pierre Amato;Pierre Amato;Martine Sancelme

  • Long-term features of cloud microbiology at the puy de Dôme (France)

    Mickaël Vaïtilingom;Eléonore Attard;Eléonore Attard;Nicolas Gaiani;Nicolas Gaiani;Martine Sancelme;Martine Sancelme

  • Active microorganisms thrive among extremely diverse communities in cloud water

    Pierre Amato;Muriel Joly;Ludovic Besaury;Anne Oudart

  • Ice nucleation activity of bacteria isolated from cloud water

    Muriel Joly;Eléonore Attard;Eléonore Attard;Martine Sancelme;Martine Sancelme;Laurent Deguillaume;Laurent Deguillaume

  • Bioaerosol field measurements: Challenges and perspectives in outdoor studies

    Tina Šantl-Temkiv;Branko Sikoparija;Teruya Maki;Federico Carotenuto

  • A fate for organic acids, formaldehyde and methanol in cloud water: their biotransformation by micro-organisms

    Pierre Amato;Pierre Amato;F. Demeer;A. Melaouhi;Stéphane Fontanella

  • Energy metabolism response to low-temperature and frozen conditions in Psychrobacter cryohalolentis.

    Pierre Amato;Brent C. Christner

  • Effects of atmospheric conditions on ice nucleation activity of Pseudomonas

    Eleonore Attard;Eleonore Attard;H. Yang;Anne-Marie Delort;Anne-Marie Delort;Pierre Amato;Pierre Amato

  • Contribution of microbial activity to carbon chemistry in clouds.

    Mickaël Vaïtilingom;Pierre Amato;Martine Sancelme;Paolo Laj

  • An important oceanic source of micro-organisms for cloud water at the Puy de Dôme (France)

    Pierre Amato;Marius Parazols;Martine Sancelme;Gilles Mailhot

  • Metatranscriptomic exploration of microbial functioning in clouds

    Pierre Amato;Ludovic Besaury;Muriel Joly;Benjamin Penaud

  • Classification of clouds sampled at the puy de Dôme (France) based on 10 yr of monitoring of their physicochemical properties

    L. Deguillaume;L. Deguillaume;T. Charbouillot;M. Joly;M. Vaïtilingom

  • Survival and ice nucleation activity of bacteria as aerosols in a cloud simulation chamber

    Pierre Amato;Pierre Amato;M. Joly;C. Schaupp;Eléonore Attard;Eléonore Attard;Eléonore Attard

  • Soil bacterial strains able to grow on the surface of oxidized polyethylene film containing prooxidant additives

    Marek Koutny;Pierre Amato;Marketa Muchova;Jan Ruzicka

  • Atmospheric chemistry of carboxylic acids: microbial implication versus photochemistry

    Mickaël Vaitilingom;Tiffany Charbouillot;Laurent Deguillaume;Laurent Deguillaume;Romain Maisonobe;Romain Maisonobe

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Marie Delort
Anne-Marie Delort University of Clermont Auvergne
Martine Sancelme
Martine Sancelme University of Clermont Auvergne
Paolo Laj
Paolo Laj Grenoble Alpes University
Barbara Ervens
Barbara Ervens University of Clermont Auvergne
Gilles Mailhot
Gilles Mailhot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Karine Sellegri
Karine Sellegri University of Clermont Auvergne
Marcello Brigante
Marcello Brigante University of Clermont Auvergne
Christophe Ferrari
Christophe Ferrari Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Ottmar Möhler
Ottmar Möhler Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice

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