Jurgita Ovadnevaite leads Aerosol Mass Spectrometry field at the Ryan Institute’s Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies and School of Physics, National University of Ireland Galway. Her work is focused on elucidating aerosol production, nature, dispersion, composition and impacts on clouds, climate, air quality and health. She is a PI and/or activity leader on several major National and EU projects. Jurgita publishes her research in high profile international journals, including Nature and Nature family, acts there as a reviewer. She is a contributing author to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report; resides on the very high profile international SOLAS (Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Studies) scientific steering committee and has been elected as a member of International Committee on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols.