Jason West

Dr. J. Jason West is Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. West is an engineer and leader in interdisciplinary research that connects air pollution, climate change, energy, and human health, using models of atmospheric transport and chemistry at global through local scales. He led some of the first studies to use global atmospheric models to assess the health impacts of ambient air pollution, addressing its global burden on mortality, and the co‐benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation and the impacts of climate change for global air quality and health. Dr. West has served on the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Commission on  atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution, and NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, and is a Leopold Leadership Fellow. He is on the editorial board of Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, and of the Reviews section of Environmental Research Letters. He earned a BS from Duke University, MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He worked as a researcher at MIT and Princeton, a visiting scientist at the Mexican National Institute for Ecology, was an AAAS Fellow at the US EPA.