Tara Kahan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Syracuse University, New York, United States. She obtained a bachelor of science degree from the University of Regina and a PhD in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Toronto where she worked with Jamie Donaldson. During her PhD she investigated physical and chemical processes of atmospheric species at ice surfaces. Tara completed two postdoctoral fellowships. The first was at University of California Irvine with John Hemminger, where she used molecular dynamics simulations to investigate physical processes at ice surfaces, and the second was at University of Colorado Boulder, where she worked with Veronica Vaida using spectroscopic techniques to investigate the atmospheric fate of trace gases such as ozone and hydrogen peroxide. Tara joined Syracuse University in August 2012. Her research program at SU focuses on the fate of pollutants in water and ice, chemistry at urban surfaces, and indoor chemistry.

Physical chemistry; Spectroscopy; Environmental and Atmospheric chemistry.