Dr Nat Easton

Nat's background is in chemistry (MChem, University of Southampton), where she developed an interest in characterisation and air quality. She has continued to study air quality and has moved into the multidisiplinary space surrounding characterisation, sources and health impacts and is keen to continue working across disciplines.

She undertook her PhD at the National Oceanography Centre on a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship through the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute. In this she investigated Particulate Matter (PM) from port sources, including performing a source apportionment of PM in Southampton. During the course of her PhD she built her experience with policy engagement and knowledge exchange. This was initially through a policy placement with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency investigating the latest literature in maritime emissions reduction technologies, and then within a HEIF award working with Hampshire local authorities on regional air quality.

Following this she joined the £42.5 million UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund Clean Air Programme as Knowledge Exchange Impact Fellow, delivering policy impact for researchers across the programme.

Nat has also worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on projects in the Faculty of Medicine, working on indoor air pollution sampling for vulnerable groups, and another project using trees to trace spatial pollution.

She continues to work at the junction between being an active researcher herself and in supporting knowledge mobilisation for other researchers.