Atmospheric Chemistry: Bridging the molecular, urban, and global scales

V. Faye McNeill is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. She is also an associate member of the Earth Institute Faculty and Principal Investigator of the Columbia University Clean Air Toolbox for Cities Initiative. She joined Columbia in 2007 and received tenure in 2014. From 2005-2007 she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences. She was a co-editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from 2007-2017. She is the Associate Editor in charge of Atmospheric Chemistry for ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.

She received the NSF CAREER and the ACS  Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator awards in 2009. She was the recipient of the Kenneth T. Whitby Award of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) in 2015 and the Mellichamp Emerging Leaders lectureship at UCSB in 2018. She has served in multiple elected officer positions in AIChE, AAAR, and AGU, including Vice President of AAAR (President in 2023- 2024). She is an appointed member of the IUPAC panel on kinetic data evaluation and the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement.