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 Principal Investigator of the Columbia University Clean Air Toolbox for Cities Initiative, where she leads that organizations’ efforts on air quality in India. She joined Columbia in 2007 and received tenure in 2014. She received her B.S. in Ch.E. from Caltech in 1999 and her PhD in Ch.E. from MIT in 2005, where she was a NASA Earth System Science Fellow. From 2005-2007 she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences. She has received awards including the NSF CAREER and the Kenneth T. Whitby Award of AAAR. She was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2023 and Fellow of AAAR in 2024. She is the Associate Editor in charge of Atmospheric Chemistry for ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. She has served in multiple elected officer positions in AIChE, AAAR, and AGU, including President of AAAR (2023-2024).