Associate Professor Ian Cousins grew up and was educated in the UK, but is now permanently based in Sweden. Ian has 20 years experience working as an Environmental Chemist and has published 52 peer-reviewed journal articles and 8 book chapters, receiving over 300 citation per year.
In his early career, Ian worked in industry before embarking an international academic career in the UK, Canada and Sweden. During his academic training, Ian worked in highly successful research groups led by Professors Kevin Jones (Lancaster University) and Donald Mackay (University of Toronto and Trent University) before recently building his own research group in Sweden.
Ian moved to Stockholm University in 2002 and after holding various positions became a tenured Associate Professor in 2008.
In Ian’s research group, he ultimately wants to develop a quantitative understanding of the fate and exposure of chemicals in the environment. To achieve this goal he uses a combination of experimental and modeling approaches. In experimental studies he collaborates with leading experts in environmental analytical chemistry in his department. Recent successes in his research group include the most cited paper in Environmental Science and Technology in 2006, winning a Best Paper Award for a paper published in Environmental Science and Technology in 2009 and the award of the Sigrid Arrhenius Stipend in 2009 to his first PhD student, James Armitage. The Sigrid Arrhenius Stipend is awarded to the best young researcher at the Science Faculty who presented his/her PhD thesis during the academic year.
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