Kerri Pratt

Kerri A. Pratt is a professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, where she focuses on novel real-time mass spectrometry studies of the sources and chemical mechanisms driving reactive gases and aerosols in the Arctic and wintertime environments to advance understanding of climate change and air quality. Her research has transformed understanding of the chemical reactions involved in unique multiphase halogen chemistry. Pratt earned her BS in chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University in 2004 and her PhD in 2009 from UC San Diego, where she was an NSF Graduate Student Research Fellow and EPA STAR Graduate Fellow. As a graduate student, she contributed to developments in aircraft-based single-particle mass spectrometry that enabled their discoveries linking atmospheric aerosol sources with cloud formation. From 2010 to 2013, she was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Polar Regions Research at Purdue University, where she used chemical ionization mass spectrometry to reveal the photochemical snowpack production molecular bromine in the Arctic. She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2013. Pratt is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the American Chemical Society James J. Morgan Early Career Award, a Department of Energy Early Career Award, and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award.