Roy Harrison

Early life and education Roy Michael Harrison was born on 14 October 1948 to Wilfred and Rosa Harrison . His PhD research investigated sigmatropic reactions of tropolone ethers.

Research and career Harrison is an expert on air pollution, specialising in the area of airborne particulates, including nanoparticles. His interests extend from source emissions, through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations, to human exposures and effects upon health. This forms the basis of the current understanding of the relationship of emissions to roadside concentrations and size distributions.

In addition to leading a large project on diesel exhaust particles, he is also engaged in major collaborative studies of processes determining air quality in Beijing and Delhi. and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.

Personal life Harrison married Angela Copeman in 1981. After their divorce, he married Susan Sturt in 1989. Harrison has a son and a daughter from his first marriage, and a son from his second. He enjoys "mowing and other outdoor pursuits".