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Adetutu Aghedo

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Adetutu Mary Aghedo
Science Team
Postdoctoral research scientist

Dr. Adetutu Aghedo is a CALTECH postdoctoral research scientist with the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) group. Adetutu Aghedo receives her doctorate degree under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg from the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, through the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling. Her research focuses on analysing the interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate through the use of complex four-dimensional tropospheric chemistry and aerosol general circulation model ECHAM5-HAMMOZ and TES retrieved data.

Education
  • Phd Geosciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. March 2004 - May 2007.
  • Masters in Modelling and Simulation of Complex Realities, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. Oct 2001 - Sept 2003.
  • B.Sc. Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1992 - 1998.

Research Interests
  • The interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate
  • Air pollution modeling
  • Studying air pollutants transport

Professional Experience
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, USA. March 2008 - present
  • Postdoctoral Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, June 2007 - February 2008.
  • Graduate Assistant, Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. August 2000 - present

Selected Awards
  • ZEIT foundation fellow, International Max Planck Research School, Hamburg, Germany. (March 2004 - May 2007).
  • UNESCO-IAEA-ICTP fellowship (Oct. 2001 - Sept. 2003).
  • Cyril Onwumechili prize for the best graduating student in the department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (Jan. 1998).
  • Faculty prize for the best graduating student of the Faculty of Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (Jan. 1998).

Selected Publications
  1. S. Rast, M. G. Schultz, I. Bey, T. van Noije, A. M. Aghedo, G. P. Brasseur, T. Diehl, M. Esch, L. Ganzeveld, I. Kirchner, L. Kornblueh, A. Rhodin, E. Roeckner, H. Schmidt, S. Schroeder, U. Schulzweida, P. Stier, K. Thomas, and S. Walters, Interannual Variability in tropospheric ozone over the 1980 - 2000 period: Results from the tropospheric chemistry general circulation model ECHAM5-MOZ, to be submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
  2. Aghedo,A. M., M. G. Schultz and S. Rast (2008), Sensitivity of tracer transport to model resolution and forcing data in the general circulation model ECHAM5, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 137-160, 2008. http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/8/137/2008/acpd-8-137-2008.html
  3. Aghedo A. M., M. G. Schultz and S. Rast (2007), The influence of African air pollution on regional and global tropospheric ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 1193-1212. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/1193/2007/acp-7-1193-2007.html
  4. Aghedo, A. M. (2007), The impact of African air pollution: A global chemistry climate model study, PhD thesis. http://www.earthsystemschool.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Theses/31_Thesis_Aghedo.pdf