Daniel Jacob
Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
My work uses atmospheric observations from satellites and other platforms, in combination with advanced models, to better understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, its perturbation by human activity, and the implications for climate and life on Earth.
Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
Daniel Jacob received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie in 1981 and his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Caltech in 1985. He came to Harvard as a postdoc in 1985 and joined the Harvard faculty in 1987. His professional honors include a Packard Fellowship, the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and the Solvay Chair from the Université´Libre de Bruxelles. He is the most-cited environmental scientist in the world according to research.com and the top-ranked atmospheric chemist in the world according to ScholarGPS. He has trained over 120 Ph.D. students and postdocs over the course of his career.
Daniel Jacob’s research covers a wide range of topics in atmospheric chemistry, from air quality to climate change. He has served on IPCC panels as lead author and review editor. He has a long association with the NASA Earth Science Division as mission scientist for aircraft campaigns and science team member for Earth-observing satellites. Jacob is an expert on atmospheric methane, its measurement from satellites, and the inference of emissions using inverse methods
Research Group Webpage: https://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/