Rate My Professor Keri Nicoll

Dr. Keri Nicoll is a Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, serving as PhD Admissions Tutor, Research Leadership team member, and Principal Investigator for the Charged Particle Effects on Clouds project. She is also the convenor and lecturer for the MT38N Atmospheric Electricity module and a member of the Space and Atmospheric Electricity Group. Nicoll holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics with Meteorology from the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she served as a NERC Independent Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Reading. In 2020, she received the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Early Career Award for Atmospheric and Space Electricity, recognizing her contributions to the field.

Her research specializations include atmospheric electricity, solar-terrestrial interactions, space weather, instrumentation development, energetic particles and ionisation processes, aerosol and dust charging, atmospheric research using uncrewed aerial vehicles, and planetary atmospheric electricity. Nicoll has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, with notable works such as 'A global atmospheric electricity monitoring network for climate and geophysical research' (2019), 'Extensive layer clouds in the global electric circuit: their effects on vertical charge distribution and storage' (2020), 'First in-situ observations of gaseous volcanic plume electrification' (2019), 'Saharan dust plume charging observed over the UK' (2018), 'Empirical evidence for multidecadal scale global atmospheric electric circuit modulation by the El Niño-southern oscillation' (2022), 'Evaluating atmospheric electricity changes as an indicator of fog formation' (2024), 'Providing charge emission for cloud seeding aircraft' (2024), 'In-situ observations of charged Saharan dust from an uncrewed aircraft system' (2024), 'The effect of fog on atmospheric electric fields' (2024), and 'Fair weather atmospheric charge measurements with a small UAS' (2022). These publications, cited more than 2,450 times, explore cloud electrification, dust dynamics, volcanic ash charging, global circuit variations, and applications in weather modification and space weather monitoring.