Daniel Jacob

Daniel Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Harvard University. His research covers a wide range of topics in atmospheric chemistry, from air quality to climate change. He has served on IPCC panels as lead author and review editor. He has a long association with the NASA Earth Science Division as mission scientist for aircraft campaigns and science team member for Earth-observing satellites. Jacob is an expert on atmospheric methane, its measurement from satellites, and the inference of emissions using inverse methods. He is the most-cited environmental scientist in the world according to research.com and the top-ranked atmospheric chemist according to ScholarGPS. He has trained over 100 Ph.D. students and postdocs over the course of his career.