Martin Breitenlechner

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Tropospheric Chemistry

Affiliation

CIRES

Martin has a PhD in Physics from the University of Innsbruck, where he worked on the development of the PTR3 - a proton transfer reaction-time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-TOF) using a new gas inlet and an innovative reaction chamber design. He has been at Harvard University from 2016 to 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher working in Frank Keutsch’s research group, where he expanded the capability of the PTR-TOF to measure both the gas and particle phase. Martin is working on the development of a new chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) instrument for high altitude deployment as part of the Earth Radiation Budget initiative. This new instrumentation will significantly improve NOAA's capacity to perform stratospheric trace gas observations.

Education

Ph.D., University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2012

last modified: September 30, 2022