Allan Bertram

Allan Bertram received his BSc from the University of Prince Edward Island and PhD from the University of Waterloo, where he studied the freezing behaviour of polar stratospheric clouds. Following an NSERC Postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2001. He was a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry from 2001-2011, and in 2012 he became a full professor at UBC. He has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award (2008-2011), the Chemical Institute of Canada Environment Division Research & Development Dima Award (2015), the UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize (2017), and the The Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering (2020). He is also the former director of an interdisciplinary atmospheric aerosol program funded through the NSERC CREATE program. Currently, he serves as Co-editor of the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2013 – present). The research in his group focuses on the chemistry and physics of atmospheric aerosols and the role these aerosols play in urban air pollution, climate change and atmospheric chemistry.