Dr. Adetutu Aghedo is a CALTECH Postdoctoral Research Scientist with the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) group. Adetutu Aghedo receives her doctorate degree under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg from the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, through the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling. Her research focuses on analysing the interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate through the use of complex four-dimensional tropospheric chemistry and aerosol general circulation model ECHAM5-HAMMOZ and TES retrieved data.

• Phd Geosciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, (2004 - 2007).
• Masters in Modelling and Simulation of Complex Realities, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, (2001 - 2003).
• B.Sc. Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, (1992 - 1998).

My research combines satellite and three-dimensional chemistry climate model data to study the complex interaction between chemistry, transport and climate change. I limit my focus to the tropospheric and stratospheric region of the atmosphere. I pay particular attention to ozone and all precursors, which may lead to its formation and depletion, because of its peculiarity and double-edged characteristic as an air pollution agent within the boundary layer, and a greenhouse gas with positive radiative forcing in the troposphere. Understanding the global atmospheric chemistry and its non-linear relationship and feedback with global transport and climate change provide answers to several policy-driven questions of local versus imported emissions, air-quality mitigation and combating global climate change.

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2008 – present).
• Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany (2007 – 2008).
• Graduate Assistant, Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (2000 - 2007)

• ZEIT foundation fellow, International Max Planck Research School, Hamburg, Germany. (2004 - 2007).
• IGAC funding for CACGP/IGAC/WMO conference, (2006).
• 2-year UNESCO-IAEA-ICTP fellowship (2001 - 2003).
• Cyril Onwumechili prize for the best graduating student in the department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (1998).
• Faculty prize for the best graduating student of the Faculty of Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (1998).

1. Aghedo, A. M., M. G. Schultz and S. Rast (2008), Sensitivity of tracer transport to model resolution and forcing data in the general circulation model ECHAM5, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 137-160, 2008. http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/8/137/2008/acpd-8-137-2008.html
2. Aghedo, A. M., M. G. Schultz and S. Rast (2007), The influence of African air pollution on regional and global tropospheric ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 1193-1212. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/1193/2007/acp-7-1193-2007.html