Assistant Professor
Building 1513-421
ORCID: 0000-0002-7059-6765
Fabian received his BSc in Environmental Sciences and his MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science from ETH Zürich, where he studied the composition of atmospheric aerosol particles using mass spectrometry tools.
After a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fabian got his PhD in cloud physics from ETH Zürich in 2019, where he developed techniques to investigate the ice nucleation abilities of soot aerosols. Following a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia and the Paul Scherrer Institute, where he worked on physical chemistry of organic aerosol particles with a focus on aerosol phase behavior, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Aarhus University in March 2024 as assistant professor.
Fabian has been awarded the Master Thesis Grant from the Karl Zeno Schindler foundation (2015) and the Prix Schläfli in Geosciences (2021) from the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Ongoing research interests in Fabian´s group include the phase behavior properties of atmospheric organic aerosol particles and the mechanisms of atmospheric ice nucleation and droplet activation in clouds. The goal is to mechanistically understand aerosol and cloud processes and quantify their role in our atmosphere.
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Maria received her PhD degree in Physical Chemistry (2021) from the University of Crete, Greece, where she focused on gas-phase kinetics and the oxidation mechanisms of furans, that are often emitted into the atmosphere by biomass burning. Afterwards she was a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS in Lyon, France, where she worked on heterogeneous chemistry and interfacial processes at the air–water interface of aerosol particles and droplets. Maria joined the Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics group in 2025. In Aarhus, Maria’s research will focus on the properties of secondary organic aerosols produced through the oxidation of biogenic and anthropogenic volatile organic compounds with nitrate radicals and link that to their ability to form clouds.
Daniel received his BSc (2022) and MSc (2024) in Chemistry from Aarhus University, where he worked on topics related to computational atmospheric chemistry. His bachelor’s thesis explored the role of organic acids in new particle formation, while his master’s work combined automated computational frameworks for reaction kinetics and machine learning to study properties of molecular clusters and gas-phase biogenic precursors. Daniel joined the Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics group in 2025, where his current research is focused on investigating molecular diffusion and oxygen availability in organic aerosol particles and investigating their impact on reactivity.
