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Educational and Research Background

I am a PhD student (2021-present), focusing on understanding the sulfur cycle over the ocean through box modelling, fieldwork, and global atmospheric modelling. This work is conducted with the Archibald and Giorio groups at the University of Cambridge and is funded by the Cambridge Australia Poynton International Scholarship. So far, I have compared atmospheric box models to laboratory experiments and collected aerosol filter samples from FAAM aircraft flights in the Azores which I analysed by ion chromatography at the British Antarctic Survey.

For my Master of Science (Research), from 2020 to 2021, I studied the photochemical reactions of acetone with the Kable Group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). I was funded through the Research Training Program scholarship and used Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to detect acetone photolysis products. The project also involved using resonance enhanced photoionisation and photofragment excitation, which was later published [Jacob et al., Chem. Phys., 2022, 156, 094303]. 

My embedded Honours year in 2019 introduced me to atmospheric chemistry and taught me how to run lasers through complex laboratory experiments. With the Kable group at UNSW, I studied the photochemical pathways of methacrolein and found that a new pathway, atmospheric photo-thermal oxidation, was possible and competitive in the atmosphere. I undertook most of the research at UNSW with velocity map imaging and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and spent two weeks at the University of Lille, France, using the fluorescence assay by gas expansion apparatus of the Fittschen Group. Thanks to the physics and chemistry training that I obtained from my Bachelor of Advanced Science at UNSW (2016-2018), I found my interest in the cross-section between those two subjects, physical chemistry, and pursued two undergraduate projects. I worked as a research assistant in the Beves Group at UNSW, where I studied photoswitching donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs), part of which was published [Mallo et al., ChemPhotoChem, 2020, 4 (6), 407-412.]. As part of the UNSW Science Vacation Research Scholarship, I studied the formation of ketene from a photochemical pathway of acetone with the Kable Group, and presented a poster of this work at the 2019 RACI Physical Chemistry Conference.

Publications

Extension, development, and evaluation of the representation of the OH-initiated dimethyl sulfide (DMS) oxidation mechanism in the Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM) v3.3.1 framework
LSD Jacob, C Giorio, AT Archibald
– Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
(2024)
24,
3329
Input and output files supporting Extension, Development and Evaluation of the representation of the OH-initiated DMS oxidation mechanism in the MCM v3.3.1 framework
L Jacob, C Giorio, A Archibald
(2024)
Development, intercomparison and evaluation of an improved mechanism for the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide in the UKCA model
BA Cala, S Archer-Nicholls, J Weber, NL Abraham, PT Griffiths, L Jacob, YM Shin, LE Revell, M Woodhouse, AT Archibald
– Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
(2023)
23,
14735
Extension, Development and Evaluation of the representation of the OH-initiated DMS oxidation mechanism in the MCM v3.3.1 framework
L Jacob, C Giorio, AT Archibald
(2023)
Supplementary material to "Extension, Development and Evaluation of the representation of the OH-initiated DMS oxidation mechanism in the MCM v3.3.1 framework"
L Jacob, C Giorio, AT Archibald
(2023)
Development, intercomparison and evaluation of an improved mechanism for the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide
A Archibald, B Cala, S Archer-Nicholls, NL Abraham, P Griffiths, L Jacob, M Shin, L Revell, M Woodhouse
(2023)
Assessment of dimethyl sulfide atmospheric oxidation mechanisms, used in both box models and global models, through the comparison with previous experiments
L Jacob, C Giorio, A Archibald
(2023)
Supplementary material to "Development, intercomparison and evaluation of an improved mechanism for the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide in the UKCA model"
BA Cala, S Archer-Nicholls, J Weber, NL Abraham, PT Griffiths, L Jacob, YM Shin, LE Revell, M Woodhouse, AT Archibald
(2023)
Development, intercomparison and evaluation of an improved mechanism for the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide in the UKCA model
BA Cala, S Archer-Nicholls, J Weber, NL Abraham, PT Griffiths, L Jacob, YM Shin, LE Revell, M Woodhouse, AT Archibald
(2023)
The dynamics of CO production from the photolysis of acetone across the whole S1 ← S0 absorption spectrum: Roaming and triple fragmentation pathways
LSD Jacob, KLK Lee, TW Schmidt, K Nauta, SH Kable
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2022)
156,
094303
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Centre Highlights

• January 2024: The CCPG have successfully submitted a proposal for PACESETTERS!

• September 2nd 2023: Dr Annela Anger-Kraavi has co-authored a paper analysing just transition narratives in European coal regions. Read the paper here

• December 13th 2022: The CCPG have co-authored a paper on game-changing innovations towards net-zero, published in Energy Strategy Reviews. Read the open access paper here.

• November 15th 2022: The final conference of PARIS REINFORCE is taking place today in Sorbonne. Read more about the event here

• October 24th 2022: The CCPG have successfully submitted a proposal for the Cambridge-Tsinghua joint research initiative! 

• May 5th 2022: We've submitted to the UNFCCC's Global Stocktake (GST). More information is available on our news page. 

• March 23rd 2022: Multiple CAS academics have published a paper investigating the future role of anthropogenic methane emissions. Read the open access paper here.

• Feb 18th 2022: Dr Parris and Dr Anger-Kraavi have co-authored a paper that develops a tool to support co-designed transformative change. Read the open access paper here.

• Dec 16th 2021: Dr Parris has co-authored a paper that introduces a tool to support plastic pollution policy. Read the open access paper here.

• Nov 22nd 2021: Dr Anger-Kraavi has co-authored a paper with Paris Reinforce. Read the open access version here


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