Kimberly Strong

Kimberly Strong is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto. She holds degrees from Memorial University of Newfoundland (BSc, 1986) and the University of Oxford (DPhil, 1992), and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and at York University before joining the University of Toronto in 1996. An atmospheric scientist, Dr. Strong is interested in investigating issues related to ozone depletion, air quality and climate. She runs the University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory, and is a co-investigator on the Odin/OSIRIS and the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment space missions. She is also a co-investigator in the Canadian Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change (CANDAC), leader of the CANDAC Arctic Middle Atmosphere Chemistry theme for CANDAC's Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut. She has served on and chaired a number of national (NSERC, CMOS, CSA [the Canadian Space Agency], CAP [Canadian Association of Physicists]) committees and panels, and has published more than 60 papers in refereed scientific journals.