Professor Jia Chen has been awarded with the prestigious Timothy Oke Award 2024 for her excellent research in urban climate, particularly her unique contributions to greenhouse gas monitoring and measurement in urban areas. Jia Chen is the Scientific Lead for the pilot city Munich in the EU project ICOS Cities.
“I feel deeply honoured and grateful for this award, and it motivates me to continue in my endeavour to advance monitoring of urban greenhouse gases. I want to thank ICOS and all the colleagues who have supported me along the way,” says Jia Chen.
Jia Chen is a Professor for Environmental Sensing and Modeling in the School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich. She is also an Associate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.
Jia Chen’s research focuses on urban observation and modelling tools for monitoring greenhouse gases and air pollution. She and her team develop novel sensors, sensor networks, mathematical methods, and atmospheric models to localise and quantify greenhouse gas emissions and understand the metabolism of air pollutants in urban environments. In the ICOS Cities project, she leads the Munich team, focusing on the development of multi-scale sensor networks and high-resolution models to innovate techniques for monitoring greenhouse gases.
Jia is a member of the Global Young Academy and participated in the Scoping Meeting of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities as an expert. She further received funding from the United Nations Environment Programme and an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Also Simone Kotthaus in WP3 received the same prestigious award. Kotthaus is contributing to the project with atmospheric dynamics observations in Paris focusing on boundary layer heights, wind and turbulence profiles from Doppler wind lidar.
Big congratulations to both!