Jérôme Thiebaud
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Physics Laboratory

Jérôme Thiebaud joined SRI's Molecular Physics Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2009. As a member of the Aeronomy Group, he carries out laboratory experiments that address the oxygen chemistry in the mesosphere and the sodium nightglow.

Jérôme holds an Engineer Master's degree in Scientific Instrumentation and a PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of Lille, France. His research focuses mainly on laser spectroscopy applied to gas-phase chemical kinetics, environmental monitoring and atmospheric chemistry.

During his PhD, Jérôme worked on the spectroscopy and chemical kinetics of the HO2 radical. He developed a novel set-up combining Laser Photolysis and Continuous Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy which led to i) the high-resolution measurement of the HO2 absorption spectrum between 6600 and 6700 cm-1 and ii) the time-resolved measurements of HO2 densities in diverse chemical systems. This approach was combined with the Laser Induced Fluorescence of OH in order to study the coupling between OH and HO2.

Between 2007 and 2009, Jérôme worked in Professor Murray J. Thomson group at the University of Toronto, Canada, on continuous emission monitoring of mercury from coal-fired power plant. In collaboration with Resonance Ltd., an instrument based on in-situ optical absorption was designed and successfully field-tested. A patent has been filed for this sensor.

Links to Jerome's CV.

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