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Alastair Charles Lewis is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of York and a Science Director at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)

Education
Lewis attended Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School, Rochester, and then studied Chemistry at the University of Leeds followed by a PhD in atmospheric and analytical chemistry supervised by Prof. Mike Pilling CBE and Prof. Keith Bartle, awarded in 1995

Research and career
He is known for his development of analytical chemistry methods that are applied to air pollution monitoring and atmospheric chemistry research, and particularly the use of gas chromatography for the measurement of volatile organic compounds. He pioneered the use of comprehensive gas chromatography (GCxGC) to establish complexity of volatile organic compounds found in urban air. He held his first tenured academic appointment at the University of Leeds, as a joint appointment between the Schools of Chemistry and Earth & Environment before later moving to the Department of Chemistry at University of York in 2003. He currently works in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at York.

Between 2007 and 2012 Lewis worked part-time for the Natural Environment Research Council as their Theme Leader for research programmes in new technologies. In 2008 he was appointed as Director for Atmospheric Composition at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, and he remains one of three science directors, with specific responsibility for air pollution research.

Lewis has been a member of the Defra Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) since 2012 and has published a number of commentary articles on air pollution policy in the UK, US and China. He has also made a number of appearances on TV and radio discussing vehicle emissions and indoor air pollution.

More recently he has collaborated with Dr Peter Edwards at York to evaluate low cost air pollution sensor technologies and with Dr David Carslaw on diesel engine emissions. Although primarily an atmospheric chemist, he was named in a 2015 list of the World's 100 most influential analytical scientists. His research career was documented by the Science History Institute in 2011, part of series of interviews with atmospheric scientists.

Awards and honours
Lewis was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 'Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences' in 2004, the SAC Silver Medal in 2007 from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the John Jeyes Award of the RSC in 2012.

Education
Lewis attended Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School, Rochester, and then studied Chemistry at the University of Leeds followed by a PhD in atmospheric and analytical chemistry supervised by Prof. Mike Pilling CBE and Prof. Keith Bartle, awarded in 1995

Research and career
He is known for his development of analytical chemistry methods that are applied to air pollution monitoring and atmospheric chemistry research, and particularly the use of gas chromatography for the measurement of volatile organic compounds. He pioneered the use of comprehensive gas chromatography (GCxGC) to establish complexity of volatile organic compounds found in urban air. He held his first tenured academic appointment at the University of Leeds, as a joint appointment between the Schools of Chemistry and Earth & Environment before later moving to the Department of Chemistry at University of York in 2003. He currently works in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at York.

Between 2007 and 2012 Lewis worked part-time for the Natural Environment Research Council as their Theme Leader for research programmes in new technologies. In 2008 he was appointed as Director for Atmospheric Composition at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, and he remains one of three science directors, with specific responsibility for air pollution research.

Lewis has been a member of the Defra Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) since 2012 and has published a number of commentary articles on air pollution policy in the UK, US and China. He has also made a number of appearances on TV and radio discussing vehicle emissions and indoor air pollution.

More recently he has collaborated with Dr Peter Edwards at York to evaluate low cost air pollution sensor technologies and with Dr David Carslaw on diesel engine emissions. Although primarily an atmospheric chemist, he was named in a 2015 list of the World's 100 most influential analytical scientists. His research career was documented by the Science History Institute in 2011, part of series of interviews with atmospheric scientists.

Awards and honours
Lewis was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 'Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences' in 2004, the SAC Silver Medal in 2007 from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the John Jeyes Award of the RSC in 2012.