Rate My Professor Jurgita Ovadnevaite

Jurgita Ovadnevaite is a Professor in Physics at the School of Natural Sciences, University of Galway. She graduated from Vilnius University in 2001 and received her Ph.D. in natural sciences from the Institute of Physics in 2007. Currently, she serves as Director of the Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies (C-CAPS) within the Ryan Institute and chairs the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station management committee. She leads the Aerosol Mass Spectrometry unit, focusing on aerosol physicochemical properties, sources, formation, transformation, and their impacts on climate and health. Ovadnevaite is a Principal Investigator and work package leader on major national and EU-funded projects, including BACCHUS, ACTRIS, ACTRIS-2, OSSA, COST-COLOSSAL, and AEROSOURCE. She champions source apportionment work in the National Research Forum established by the Department of Climate, Energy and Environment and is a contributing author to the IPCC Working Group I Sixth Assessment Report.

Her research employs advanced mass spectrometry techniques to elucidate aerosol production, nature, dispersion, and effects. Ovadnevaite has presented as a plenary and invited speaker at international conferences and acts as a reviewer for prominent journals. Key publications include lead-authored papers in Nature (cover), Nature Sustainability, Nature Geoscience, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Environmental Science & Technology. Recent works feature "Combined cellular (Cells-on-Particles) and acellular (DTT) assessment of indoor vs outdoor PM2.5 toxicity" (2026, Environmental Pollution), "A European aerosol phenomenology – 9: Light absorption properties of carbonaceous aerosol particles across surface Europe" (2025, Environment International), "Analysis of source regions and transport pathways of sub-micron aerosol components in Europe" (2025, Environmental Pollution), and "Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles" (2025, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science). Her contributions, with thousands of citations, advance understanding in atmospheric physics, air pollution mitigation, and climate science.