Professor Jonathan Reid
Jonathan Reid (JPR) is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bristol (UoB). After completing his PhD at the University of Oxford in 1997 (supervisor: CJSM Simpson), JPR moved to the University of Colorado (USA) as a postdoctoral research fellow (supervisor: SR Leone). He was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Birmingham in 2000, moving to the University of Bristol in March 2004.
JPR has extensive experience in developing novel single particle techniques to study microphysical aerosol processes. His current research is relevant to atmospheric science, drug delivery to the lungs, formulation science and disease transmission, and is funded by the EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and NERC. He has held both an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship and an EPSRC Leadership Fellow. He was co-editor of Fundamentals and Applications in Aerosol Spectroscopy (Taylor & Francis, 2010, edited with Prof. Ruth Signorell, ETH-Zurich) and has over 220 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
JPR has received the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Tilden medal (2021), Corday-Morgan medal (2013), the Marlow medal of the Faraday Division (2004) and the Harrison Memorial medal (2001). He is past President of the Aerosol Society of UK and Ireland, and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the American Association of Aerosol Research journal Aerosol Science and Technology. He is the director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Aerosol Science, a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary collaboration across 7 universities with an academic team of ~80. The CDT is supported by over 60 industrial and public sector partners
During the COVID-19 pandemic, his expertise has led to membership of: the DEFRA “Expert Group on the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the Wider Environment”, advising SAGE on the risks of transmission in air, water, sewage, surfaces and foods; the DCMS/PHE “Advisory Group on Singing and Wind Instruments”, advising SAGE on aerosols and the risks of transmission in the performing arts during the pandemic; and the NIHR “Aerosol Generating Procedures Task and Finish Group”, providing practical and scientific advice to the Chief Medical Officers.
In December 2021, JPR contributed to lecture 2 of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, broadcast by the BBC, Going viral: How Covid changed science forever.
