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Switzerland
2026

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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
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Urs Baltensperger is affiliated with the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these domains, they concentrate on several subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Spectroscopy

Key topics of their work involve:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications

Urs Baltensperger's recent publications illustrate a focus on air pollution, aerosol chemistry, and atmospheric particle formation. Notable recent papers include:

  • Sources of particulate-matter air pollution and its oxidative potential in Europe, 2020, Nature
  • Rapid growth of new atmospheric particles by nitric acid and ammonia condensation, 2020, Nature
  • Frequent new particle formation over the high Arctic pack ice by enhanced iodine emissions, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Role of iodine oxoacids in atmospheric aerosol nucleation, 2021, Science
  • European aerosol phenomenology − 8: Harmonised source apportionment of organic aerosol using 22 Year-long ACSM/AMS datasets, 2022, Environment International

Their research has been disseminated in various publication venues, with a significant number of works appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Imad El Haddad
  • Andrê S. H. Prévôt
  • Jay G. Slowik
  • Dongyu Wang
  • Josef Dommen

Urs Baltensperger received recognition as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China

    Ru Jin Huang;Yanlin Zhang;Carlo Bozzetti;Kin Fai Ho

  • The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues

    Mattias Hallquist;J. C. Wenger;U. Baltensperger;Y. Rudich

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • O/C and OM/OC Ratios of Primary, Secondary, and Ambient Organic Aerosols with High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    Allison C. Aiken;Peter F. DeCarlo;Jesse H. Kroll;Douglas R. Worsnop

  • Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation

    Jasper Kirkby;Joachim Curtius;João Almeida;João Almeida;Eimear Dunne

  • Absorption of light by soot particles: determination of the absorption coefficient by means of aethalometers

    E. Weingartner;H. Saathoff;M. Schnaiter;N. Streit

  • Recommendations for reporting "black carbon" measurements

    Andreas Petzold;John A. Ogren;Markus Fiebig;Pablo Laj

  • Identification of polymers as major components of atmospheric organic aerosols.

    Markus Kalberer;Dwane Paulsen;Mirjam Sax;Martin Steinbacher

  • Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid-amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere

    Joao Almeida;Joao Almeida;Siegfried Schobesberger;Andreas Kürten;Ismael K. Ortega

  • A European aerosol phenomenology—1: physical characteristics of particulate matter at kerbside, urban, rural and background sites in Europe

    Rita Van Dingenen;Frank Raes;Jean-P Putaud;Urs Baltensperger

  • Particulate matter, air quality and climate: Lessons learned and future needs

    S. Fuzzi;U. Baltensperger;K. Carslaw;S. Decesari

  • Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality

    P.S. Monks;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;S. Fuzzi;A. Stohl

  • Using Aerosol Light Absorption Measurements for the Quantitative Determination of Wood Burning and Traffic Emission Contributions to Particulate Matter

    Jisca Sandradewi;Andre S H Prévôt;Sönke Szidat;Nolwenn Perron

  • The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere

    Jasmin Tröstl;Wayne K. Chuang;Hamish Gordon;Martin Heinritzi

  • Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles

    Jasper Kirkby;Jasper Kirkby;Jonathan Duplissy;Jonathan Duplissy;Kamalika Sengupta;Carla Frege

  • The effect of physical and chemical aerosol properties on warm cloud droplet activation

    G. Mcfiggans;P. Artaxo;Urs Baltensperger;H. Coe

  • Chemical characterisation of PM2.5, PM10 and coarse particles at urban, near-city and rural sites in Switzerland

    Christoph Hueglin;Robert Gehrig;Urs Baltensperger;Martin Gysel

  • Source apportionment of submicron organic aerosols at an urban site by factor analytical modelling of aerosol mass spectra

    V. A. Lanz;M. R. Alfarra;Urs Baltensperger;B. Buchmann

  • Sources of particulate-matter air pollution and its oxidative potential in Europe.

    Kaspar R. Daellenbach;Kaspar R. Daellenbach;Kaspar R. Daellenbach;Gaëlle Uzu;Jianhui Jiang;Laure Estelle Cassagnes

  • SoFi, an IGOR-based interface for the efficient use of the generalized multilinear engine (ME-2) for the source apportionment: ME-2 application to aerosol mass spectrometer data

    F. Canonaco;M. Crippa;J. G. Slowik;U. Baltensperger

  • Oxidation products of biogenic emissions contribute to nucleation of atmospheric particles.

    Francesco Riccobono;Siegfried Schobesberger;Catherine E. Scott;Josef Dommen

  • A mass spectrometric study of secondary organic aerosols formed from the photooxidation of anthropogenic and biogenic precursors in a reaction chamber

    M. R. Alfarra;M. R. Alfarra;D. Paulsen;D. Paulsen;M. Gysel;M. Gysel;A. A. Garforth

Frequent Co-Authors

André S. H. Prévôt
André S. H. Prévôt Paul Scherrer Institute
Ernest Weingartner
Ernest Weingartner University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Martin Gysel
Martin Gysel Paul Scherrer Institute
Jay G. Slowik
Jay G. Slowik Paul Scherrer Institute
Jonathan Duplissy
Jonathan Duplissy University of Helsinki
Josef Dommen
Josef Dommen Paul Scherrer Institute
Heinz W. Gäggeler
Heinz W. Gäggeler Paul Scherrer Institute
Katrianne Lehtipalo
Katrianne Lehtipalo University of Helsinki
Neil M. Donahue
Neil M. Donahue Carnegie Mellon University

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