AirUCI’s Newest Faculty
In June, 2021 AirUCI added three new faculty to our institute.
Ulrike Luderer, M.D. has been a professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCI since 1999 and has served at the Director level of the Environmental Health Sciences graduate program since 2010. She is among the group of AirUCI faculty who have recently submitted a proposal to study air quality and community health, so has already begun collaborative work in our institute.
Her research focuses on reproductive toxicology, developmental toxicology, with a particular focus on ovarian health and with the aim of elucidating the mechanisms by which environmental and occupational exposures disrupt reproductive function and development of the reproductive system.
James Randerson has been a professor of Earth System Science at UCI since 2003 and has served as the Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor of Earth System Science since 2017. He has already engaged in collaborative studies with AirUCI faculty and will find many other opportunities for joint research in our group.
His research interests include the global carbon cycle, fires, climate-carbon feedbacks, biogeochemical cycles, land cover change, deforestation, drought, Amazon forests, remote sensing, ecosystem modeling, and climate policy. He is working to improve our understanding of interactions between humans, ecosystems, and climate change that influence the long-term sustainability of the Earth System. To achieve this goal, Jim uses satellite data, atmospheric trace gas observations, and earth system models in new ways to study the global biosphere.
Vojislav Stamenkovic came from a career at the U.S. National Labs to UCI in 2020 with a Joint Professorship
in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. He is also affiliated with AirUCI’s partner group, the Advanced Power and Energy Program, as an expert in electrochemical systems for energy conversion and storage, in heterogeneous catalysis, and with expertise in fundamental, functional biomaterials design for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries.
Voja was the natural choice to serve as the inaugural Director of the Horiba Institute for Mobility and Connectivity2, a new hub for implementing renewable, sustainable, and environmentally neutral technologies such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries in transportation and the electric grid, while evaluating impacts on mobility and connectivity.
We are thrilled to welcome these three exceptional scientists to AirUCI and anticipate many fruitful collaborations among our 30 faculty and their research groups.
