Research Staff Profiles

Véronique Meunier (Ph.D (2013), McGill).

I have been a research assistant at the J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory, located near the MacDonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, since 2014 under the direction of Prof. Frédéric Fabry. My main current research project is the development of a fully scanning microwave radiometer. I am also responsible verifying the calibration and assisting in the maintenance of the S-band radar and other instruments belonging to the Radar Research Group, as well as developing processing software for these data.

Since September 2019, I’m also involved in the new infrastructure deployment Project, an Adaptable Earth-Observation System in the St-Lawrence Valley, under Prof. John Gyakum. I am responsible of the maintenance of the various instruments in several different locations in the St-Lawrence Valley and doing research with the data of these instruments.

Some publications since joining McGill

Kilambi, A., F. Fabry, and V. Meunier, 2018: A simple end effective method for separating meteorological from non-meteorological targets using dual-polarization data, JTECH, 98(10), 2135 - 2148.

Fabry, F., Meunier, V., Puidomenech Tresseras, B., Cournouyer, A. and Nelson, B., 2017: On the climatological use of radar mosaics: Possibilities and Challenges, BAMS, 98(10), 2135 - 2148.

Meunier, V., D.D. Turner, and P. Kollias, 2015: On the challenges of tomography retrievals of a 2D water vapor field using ground-based microwave radiometers: An observation system simulation experiment, J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 32(1), 116-130.

Meunier, V., U. Löhnert, P. Kollias, and S. Crewell, 2013: Biases caused by the instrument bandwidth and beam width on simulated brightness temperature measurements from scanning microwave radiometers, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6(5), 1171 – 1187.

veronique.meunier2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)

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jan.rieck [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University under the supervision of Prof. Pavlos Kollias, where I joined in October 2024. My research focuses on cloud microphysics using spaceborne and ground-based radar and radiometer observations. In particular, I work with Doppler velocity measurements from the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), a joint ESA-JAXA mission launched in May 2024. My current work includes the development, validation, and scientific application of EarthCARE CPR Doppler velocity products for studies of cloud and precipitation processes. Before joining McGill, I received my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Yonsei University, South Korea, in August 2023. My doctoral research focused on improving scattering modeling of nonspherical ice particles in passive microwave radiative transfer simulations.

jiseob.kim [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

Yanru Huo is a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, working with Prof. Thomas C. Preston. Her research examines how molecular structure, light, and environmental interfaces govern chemical transformations in atmospheric and multiphase systems. By integrating quantum chemical calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, spectral analysis, and experimental measurements, she investigates photochemical and interfacial reaction mechanisms and their consequences for the fate and evolution of environmentally relevant species. Her work connects molecular-level chemistry with observable atmospheric and environmental processes.

yanru.huo [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

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aidan.rafferty [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

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carola.barrientos [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

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dingrui.cao [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

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laura.warwick [at] mcgill.ca (Email)