Roy M. Harrison

Roy Harrison OBE FRS FRSC FRMetS
Harrison in 2017
Born	(1948-10-14) 14 October 1948 (age 76)[3]
Nationality	British
Education	Henley Grammar School[3]
Alma mater	University of Birmingham (BSc, PhD, DSc)
Spouses	Angela Copeman ​ ​ (m. 1981, divorced)​ Susan Sturt ​ (m. 1989)​
Children	3
Awards	John Jeyes Medal^[when?]
Scientific career
Fields	Air pollution Environmental chemistry Aerosol science Environmental health Atmospheric science[1]
Institutions	University of Birmingham King Abdulaziz University Imperial College London Lancaster University University of Essex[2]
Thesis	Sigmatropic rearrangements of tropolone ethers (1972)
Website	www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/harrison-roy.aspx

Roy Michael Harrison (born 14 October 1948)^[3] is a British environmental scientist. He has been Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham since 1991, and is a distinguished adjunct professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.^[1][4]

Early life and education

Roy Michael Harrison was born on 14 October 1948 to Wilfred and Rosa Harrison (née Cotton).^[3] He was educated at Henley Grammar School and the University of Birmingham, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1969, followed by a PhD in organic chemistry in 1972 and a Doctor of Science degree in environmental chemistry in 1989.^[3][2] His PhD research investigated sigmatropic reactions of tropolone ethers.^[5][6]

Research and career

Harrison is an expert on air pollution, specialising in the area of airborne particulates, including nanoparticles.^[7] His interests extend from source emissions, through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations,^[8] to human exposures and effects upon health.^[9] His most significant work has been in the field of vehicle emitted particles, including their chemical composition and atmospheric processing.^[9][10] This forms the basis of the current understanding of the relationship of emissions to roadside concentrations and size distributions.^[9][11][12]

In addition to leading a large project on diesel exhaust particles, he is also engaged in major collaborative studies of processes determining air quality in Beijing and Delhi.^[9]

Awards and honours

Harrison's work has been recognised by award of the John Jeyes Medal and Environment Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society. He has served for many years as a chair and/or member of advisory committees of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Health. He was appointed Order of the British Empire OBE in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to environmental science^[13] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.^[9]

Personal life

Harrison married Angela Copeman in 1981. After their divorce, he married Susan Stuart in 1989. Harrison has a son and a daughter from his first marriage, and a son from his second. He enjoys "mowing and other outdoor pursuits".^[3]

References

1. ORCID 0000-0002-2684-5226
2. Anon (2017). "Professor Roy Harrison OBE FRS". birmingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017.
3. "Harison, Prof. Roy Michael". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2019. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U19276. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. Roy M. Harrison publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
5. Harrison, Roy M.; Hobson, John D.; Midgley, Alan W. (1973). "Claisen rearrangement of tropolone ethers. Part III". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1: 1960. doi:10.1039/p19730001960. ISSN 0300-922X.
6. Harrison, Roy Michael (1973). Sigmatropic rearrangements of tropolone ethers. findit.bham.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Birmingham. OCLC 911143208.
7. Harrison, Roy M.; Yin, Jianxin (2000). "Particulate matter in the atmosphere: which particle properties are important for its effects on health?". Science of the Total Environment. 249 (1–3): 85–101. Bibcode:2000ScTEn.249...85H. doi:10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00513-6. ISSN 0048-9697. PMID 10813449.
8. Dall'Osto, Manuel; Ovadnevaite, Jurgita; Paglione, Marco; Beddows, David C. S.; Ceburnis, Darius; Cree, Charlotte; Cortés, Pau; Zamanillo, Marina; Nunes, Sdena O. (2017). "Antarctic sea ice region as a source of biogenic organic nitrogen in aerosols". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 6047. Bibcode:2017NatSR...7.6047D. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06188-x. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5519629. PMID 28729547.
9. Anon (2017). "Professor Roy Harrison OBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

   “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

10. Harrison, Roy M.; Beddows, David C. (2017). "Efficacy of Recent Emissions Controls on Road Vehicles in Europe and Implications for Public Health". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 1152. Bibcode:2017NatSR...7.1152H. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01135-2. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5430659. PMID 28442773.
11. Harrison, Roy M.; Smith, D. J. T.; Luhana, L. (1996). "Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Collected from an Urban Location in Birmingham, U.K.". Environmental Science & Technology. 30 (3): 825–832. Bibcode:1996EnST...30..825H. doi:10.1021/es950252d. ISSN 0013-936X.
12. Castro, L.M.; Pio, C.A.; Harrison, Roy M.; Smith, D.J.T. (1999). "Carbonaceous aerosol in urban and rural European atmospheres: estimation of secondary organic carbon concentrations". Atmospheric Environment. 33 (17): 2771–2781. Bibcode:1999AtmEn..33.2771C. doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00331-8. ISSN 1352-2310.
13. "No. 57155". The London Gazette (11th supplement). 31 December 2003. p. 11.