I have obtained my degrees of BSc and PhD (Silvia Lane, 1998) in Physical Chemistry at the “Universidad Nacional de Córdoba” (Argentina), where my PhD research focused in the investigation of chemical kinetic processes of atmospheric relevance. I served as a Research Fellow in the same University till 2002. In 2003 I started a position as Postdoctoral Fellow (James Sloan, 2003-2004) at the University of Waterloo (Canada) by studying the effect of organic components on the chemical and physical properties of aerosols. Then I moved to the University of Manchester (UK) to take up a research position (Andrew Horn and Carl Percival, 2005-2009), where my work was oriented to the study of heterogeneous transformations of organic/inorganic aerosols with flow tubes. I joined the University of Birmingham in 2010 as a Research Fellow.
Chemical kinetics
Chemistry and physics of atmospheric aerosols
Halogen species in the atmosphere
Heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry
Current: Measurements of iodine species in the marine boundary layer
http://www.atmos.bham.ac.uk/iodine.htm
J.J. Nájera, C. Percival and A.B. Horn (2010), Kinetic studies of theheterogeneous oxidation of maleic and fumaric acid aerosols by
ozone under conditions of high relativehumidity, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 12, 11417-11427
J.J.Nájera, C. Percival and A.B. Horn (2009), Infrared spectroscopic studies ofthe heterogeneous reaction of ozonewith dry maleic and fumaric acid aerosol particles, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11,9093-9103
D.J.Last, J.J. Nájera, C.J. Percival and A.B. Horn (2009), A comparison ofinfrared spectroscopic methods for the study of heterogeneous reactionsoccurring on atmospheric aerosol proxies, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 8214-8225
D.J.Last, J.J. Nájera, R. Wamsley, G. Hilton, M. McGillen, C.J. Percival andA.B. Horn (2009), Ozonolysis of Organic Compounds and Mixtures in Solution.Part I: Oleic, Maleic, Nonanoic and Benzoic acids, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11,1427-1440
J.J.Nájera and A.B. Horn (2009), Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Effect ofOleic Acid on the Deliquescence Behaviour of Ammonium Sulphate AerosolParticles, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 483-494
J.J.Nájera, J.G. Fochesatto, D.J. Last, C.J. Percival, and A.B.Horn (2008), Infrared spectroscopic methods for the study of aerosol particlesusing White cell optics: Development and characterisation of a new aerosol flowtube, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 124102/1-124102/12