His research focuses on multiphase chemistry inside clouds by a modeling approach. He participates in the Exchange program within the European Science Foundation activity entitled "Interdisciplinary Tropospheric Research: from the laboratory to global change". From July 2005, he will carry out postdoctoral research on mesoscale chemistry modeling at the Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphérique in Paris. Maud Leriche was born in Le Havre, France, in 1974. She received her B.Sc. in physics from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France) in 1995 and, then, her M.Sc. in atmospheric physics from the Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France) in 1997. She obtained her Ph.D. in atmospheric physics and chemistry from Blaise Pascal University in 2000 with Dr. Nadine Chaumerliac, studying multiphase chemistry inside clouds. After a temporary position as assistant professor at Blaise Pascal University and a visiting fellowship from NATO at Harvard University with Professor Daniel Jacob, she joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2002, where she is presently a researcher at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique at Clermont-Ferrand. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of atmospheric cloud chemistry including the cloud processing of aerosols and the coupling between microphysical and chemical processes in clouds. She is involved in the international AMMA program looking at the redistribution of soluble chemical species by convective clouds. Karine V. Desboeufs received her M.Sc. in atmospheric chemistry in 1997 and her Ph.D. in 2001 from the Paris 7 University with Professor Jean-Louis Colin. Her graduate research focused on the dissolution processes of aerosol particles in cloud droplets and, more particularly, on the release of dissolved trace metals from dust particles. After her Ph.D., she worked as a CNES postdoctoral researcher at the Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), where she performed atmospheric dust transport modeling to study interactions of dust particles with clouds. Currently, she is an assistant professor in chemistry at the Paris 7 University, and she develops her research in the LISA (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques). Her research interests are iron biogeochemistry and its atmospheric cycling. Gilles Mailhot obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1991 from the University Blaise Pascal at Clermont-Ferrand. He studied polymerization photoindiced by charge transfer in a coordination complex. After a postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of Pr. Gabor Somorjai at the University of California in Berkeley, in 1995 he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he is presently a researcher at the Laboratoire de Photochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire (Clermont-Ferrand, France). His research interests are principally in the areas of photochemistry. He especially focuses on pollutant decomposition in aquatic environments (continental waters, atmospheric liquid phases...