Congratulations to Dr. Lidia Morawska for winning the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. As an aerosol physicist at Queensland University of Technology, Morawska provided crucial leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic to raise awareness of airborne transmission and the need to change infection control protocols.
Cheers for Dr. Ling Jin, awarded the 2025 Asian Young Aerosol Scientist Award by the Asian Aerosol Research Assembly for “significant contributions in advancing mixture-toxicity modeling and uncovering chemical-microbial drivers of PM2.5 health risks.”
Kudos to Dr. William Brune, who received the Warren Washington Research and Leadership Medal (2026) from the American Meteorological Society, “For transformational advances in the chemistry of the upper and lower atmosphere, critical leadership at multiple levels, and mentoring of diverse groups.”
Felicitations to Dr. Zhangqi Li for receiving The Verner E. Suomi Technology Medal from the American Meteorological Society, “For fundamental contributions in the application of remote sensing to quantifying Earth’s energy budget, including the impacts of aerosols and their interactions with clouds.”
Kudos to Dr. Armin Sorooshian, recognized as The Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer by the American Meteorological Society, “For outstanding contributions to the development of instrumentation for, new knowledge in, and novel public health applications of atmospheric chemistry and physics.”
Congratulations to Dr. Douglas Worsnop, who was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering! Dr. Worsnop is senior vice president, Aerodyne Research, Billerica, Mass, and FiDiPro Professor of INAR (Physics), University of Helsinki, Finland. Worsnop was elected to the 2026 NAE class for “development and application of the aerosol mass spectrometer, ushering in a revolution in real-time characterization o atmospheric aerosols.”
Cheers to Dr. Andrey Khlystov, recipient of the 2026 Regents’ Distinguished Career Award by the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents. Khlystov is a Research Professor in Desert Research Institute’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) and the director of the Organic Analytic Laboratory. Khlystov is known for his significant contributions to fundamental atmospheric chemistry, innovation in aerosol instrumentation, and for connecting aerosol chemical composition with potential environmental health outcomes.
This Issue’s Newsletter Committee:
Editor | Lindsay Yee, University of California, Berkeley
Editor | Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside
Senior Assistant Editor | Robert Nishida, University of Waterloo
Senior Assistant Editor | Qian Zhang, UL Research Institutes
Junior Assistant Editor | Jenna Ditto, Washington University in St. Louis