Kimberly A. Prather
Dr. Kimberly Prather is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California (U.C.) San Diego. She received her B.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) at U.C. Davis and was a postdoctoral fellow at U.C. Berkeley. Her research involves the development and application in field and lab studies of real-time measurements of size-resolved chemistry of aerosols. Dr. Prather is currently involved in source apportionment studies in the United States. Her group has conducted field studies at locations all over the world including India and Japan. Dr. Prather was a member of the Fine Particle Monitoring Subcommittee of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). She is on a number of editorial boards for journals including Aerosol Science and Technology. In addition, Dr. Prather is a member of a number of professional societies including the American Association for Aerosol Research, the American Chemical Society, the Air and Waste Management Association, and the American Geophysical Union.