Katie Williams is the Delivery Manager for the Air Quality and Aerosol Metrology Group (AQAM) at NPL.
Katie is responsible for managing delivery of two large Air Quality network contracts for the Environment Agency – the UK Heavy Metals Network and the UK Particle Counting and Numbers & Black Carbon Network.
Having completed a BSc in Physics at Kent University, in 2017 Katie joined AQAM initially as an assistant research scientist working in the lab analysing samples for the above networks.
Katie is a member of the institute of Physics.
In 2024, Katie and the AQ Networks team won the Royal Society of Chemistry Technical Excellence Prize, for outstanding application of knowledge and teamwork to produce 20 years of robust, high-quality air pollutant data for three of the UK’s air quality networks, advancing science, informing policy makers, and protecting the health of the public.
Current interests
Katie is invested in improving the efficiency and data quality of the networks, with a special interest in trends in data from the Heavy Metals Network.
A full list of publications from Katie Williams can be found in NPL’s Publication Repository: https://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0664-5523
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katherine-williams-a0196463
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