Ronald C. Cohen attended Wesleyan University where he received his BA with high honors in 1985. He attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Richard Saykally in 1991. From 1991-1996 he was Postdoctoral Fellow and then a Research Associate at Harvard University with James G. Anderson. In 1995 he joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Science. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. He is a Faculty Scientist, in the Energy and Environment Technologies Division, LBNL (1996-present). In 2006-2007 he was a Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Division of Biogeochemistry, Mainz, Germany. Cohen has shared the NASA Group Achievement Award, in 2005 and in 1998. He has received awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, (1999); and a Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, (1998). He is an Editor of the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

High Impact Publications

1. A.J. Turner, J. Kim, A.A. Shusterman, C. Newman, K. Worthington, K. Chan, A. Lall, H. Fitzmaurice, P. Köhler, C. Frankenberg and R.C. Cohen, Observed impacts of COVID-19 on urban CO₂ emissions, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett. 2020
2. J.L. Laughner, and R.C. Cohen, Direct observation of changing NO_x lifetime in North American cities, Science  366, 6466, 723-727 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax6832, 2019.
3. A.H. Zare, K. Fahey, G. Sarwar, H.O.T. Pye, and R.C. Cohen, Vapor-pressure pathways initiate but hydrolysis products dominate the aerosol estimated from organic nitrates, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00067, ACS Earth Space Chem. 3, 8, 1426-1437, 2019.
4. P.S. Romer, K.C. Duffey, P.J. Wooldridge, E. Edgerton, K.Baumann, P.A. Feiner, D.O. Miller, L. Zhang, W.H. Brune, A.R. Koss, J.A. de Gouw, P.K. Misztal, K. Olson, A.H. Goldstein, and R.C. Cohen. Effects of temperature-dependent NO_x emissions on continental ozone production, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 18, 2601-2614, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-2601-2018, 2018.
5. A.W. Rollins, E.C. Browne, K.-E. Min, S.E. Pusede, P.J. Wooldridge, D. Gentner, A.H. Goldstein, S. Liu, D.A. Day, L.M. Russell, and R.C. Cohen, Evidence for NO_x control over nighttime SOA formation, Science, 337, 1210-1212, 2012.

For a complete list of Professor Cohen’s published work, please visit our Publications page

Abbreviated CV

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Chemistry BA with High Honors. 1985

UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA Chemistry PhD  1991

Harvard University Cambridge, MA Chemistry Postdoctoral Scholar  1991-1993

APPOINTMENTS:

2007- Professor, Chemistry and Earth & Planetary Science Departments, UC Berkeley

2008- Editor, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

2006- Editor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

1996- Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy &Technologies Area

2017-2019 Associate Dean for Research Administration, College of Letters and Science Division of Math and Physical Science and College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

2015-2016 Miller Professor, UC Berkeley

2015-2016 Adjunct Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

2007-2015 Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

2006-2016 Director, Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center

2006-2007 Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

2005-2006 Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

2002-2007 Associate Professor, Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

1995-2002 Assistant Professor, Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

1993-1996 Research Associate Department of Chemistry, Harvard University

PUBLICATIONS:

Publication #s from complete CV available here

ISI Web of Science: 14174 citations h-index=71 Google Scholar: 19231 citations (8571 since 2015) h-index=83 (50 since 2015) and i10 =246 (191 since 2015)