People

International Collaborators

Noted international researchers are members of our AirUCI team, including:

U.S. Collaborators

National Lab and Agency Collaborators

We collaborate closely with researchers at U.S. agencies and two U.S. National Laboratories: Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL).  Our National Lab and agency partners include:

 

Fulbright Scholars

Our final Fulbright Fellow, Prof.Styliani Constas of the University of Western Ontario, arrived in early 2023 and finished her term at the end of June 2023.  Prof. Patrick Ayotte of the University of Sherbourg, Quebec, served from January 2022 to July 2022.  Prof. Thomas Colin Preston was with us from September through December 2021.  Our second Fulbright Scholar, Prof. Hind al-Abadleh of Wilfrid Laurier University, joined us from December 15, 2018 through April, 2019. Dr. Jonathan Abbatt of the University of Toronto was the inaugural Fulbright Scholar at the AirUCI Institute from January through April 2018.  All our Fulbright scholars conducted collaborative research projects with AirUCI groups and gave presentations to the campus science community as well as teaching an upper-level Chemistry course.  We continue working with all our Fulbright Fellows on joint projects.  Visit our Fulbright page

Senior Science Advisor 

Dr. James N. Pitts, Jr. was an additional resource for our team from AirUCI's inception until his death on June 19, 2014 at the age of 93.  He was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, co-founder and past director of the University of California Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, and was an AirUCI senior research chemist until the end.  He is greatly missed.    Visit the Jim Pitts memorial page
Read the Spectrum article about Jim's career
 

AirUCI Research Team

Much of our work is carried out by our talented research team, comprised of staff scientists, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students.  Our summer staff often includes chemistry teachers at the community college and high school levels who share with their students the latest research results from our projects.  In addition, we regularly host visiting researchers from outside institutions as we build on collaborations and conduct joint research projects.

Postdoctoral Researchers Research Specialists Ph.D. Candidates Undergraduates
  • Dr. Jing Cheng
  • Dr. Madeline Cooke
  • Dr. Clare Flynn
  • Dr. Arturo Jimenez-Chavez
  • Dr. Minki Jun
  • Dr. Jessica Kelz
  • Dr. Dervla Meegan Kumar
  • Dr. Yue Li
  • Dr. Sanjeevi Nagalingam
  • Dr. John Patterson
  • Dr. Simone Pieber
  • Dr. Ryan Reynolds
  • Dr. Meredith Schervish 
  • Dr. Rebecca Scholten
  • Dr. Zachary Schiffman
  • Dr. Jon Wang
  • Dr. Yingnan Zhang
  • Dr. Murat Aydin (Associate Researcher)
  • Dr. Barbara Barletta (Assistant Specialist)
  • Dr. Yang Chen (Associate Researcher)
  • Mr. Michael Ezell (Sr. Research Specialist)
  • Dr. Alfredo Frietes (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Weiwei Fu (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Aurora Gutierrez (Project Specialist)
  • Dr. Dominik Haering (Chief Engineer)
  • Dr. Qingqing He (Associate Specialist)
  • David Herman (Project Scientist)
  • Mr. Hasan Jebory (Junior Specialist)
  • Dr. Pascale Lakey (Project Scientist) UK
  • Dr. Jin Hwan Lim (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Brent Love (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Michael MacKinnon (Sr. Research Scientist)
  • Dr. Shahir Masri (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Simone Meinardi (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Mingquan Mu (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Veronique Perraud (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Dmitrij Rappoport (Assistant Researcher)
  • Ms. Joyce Shin (Lab Manager)
  • Dr. Isobel Simpson (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Anatoly Turkin (Senior Scientist)
  • Dr. Weihong Wang (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Gloria Liu Weitz (Associate Researcher)
  • Dr. Lisa Wingen (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Kai Wu (Senior Scientist)
  • Dr. Li Xu (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Xin Zhu (Applications Prgmr)
  • Shayma al Ali

  • Jayveeritz Bautista

  • Candelaria Bergero

  • Jesus Campos

  • Elizabeth Hok Yee Choy

  • Kristen Cramer

  • Caitlyn Cruz

  • Avery Dalton

  • Julie Devlin

  • Teresa Palacio Diaz

  • Kasey Edwards

  • Alasdair Fairhurst

  • Savannah Ferretti

  • Margaux Fisher

  • Maria Angelica Flores

  • Nick Frainey

  • Claire Freimark

  • Samantha Frucht

  • Lily Garcia

  • Lena Gerritz

  • Hailey Gomberg

  • Kevin Gramajo-Aponte

  • Jessica Granger-Jones

  • Shan Gu

  • Xiehui He

  • Anqi Jiao

  • Anthony Jue

  • Anna Kapp

  • Sukriti Kapur

  • Jinhyuk Kim

  • Bee Kittitananuvong

  • Maddy Landi

  • Sage Lauper-Cook

  • Mengyi Li

  • Chaewon Lim

  • Xiaomeng Lin

  • Lucia Liu

  • Yuan Liu

  • Regina Luu

  • Vanessa Machuca

  • Filip Mackowicz

  • Sourav Majumdar

  • Dhivya Manickam

  • Audrey Miles

  • Desiree-Gift Mills

  • Colleen Miller

  • Miranda Helena Miranda

  • Megan MIrkhanian

  • Kate Nguyen

  • Quinn Nguyen

  • Steven Nguyen

  • Lurui Niu

  • Jared Novelly

  • Kathleen Leon Parada

  • Gabe Phun

  • Praveen Prabhakar

  • Benjamin Ransom

  • Berenice Rojas

  • Luis Ruiz-Armenta

  • Jackson Ryan

  • Varun Sridhar

  • Tim Schuetz

  • Connor Seto

  • Jared Sexton

  • Ellie Smith

  • Yuanming Song

  • Haley Staudmyer

  • Miko Stulajter

  • Yi Sun

  • Adam Thomas

  • Wajeeha Umer

  • Armando Vilchez

  • Jeremy Wakeen

  • Hui Wang

  • Allison Welch

  • Robert Weltman

  • Calum Wilson

  • Cindy Yanez

  • Matt Zaragoza

  • Yan Zhao

  • Juliette Boivin

  • Aiden Browne

  • Avisa Charmchi

  • Andrew Cho

  • Mr. HasaJuan Flores

  • Luke Garcia

  • Hailey Gomberg

  • Jena Herbst

  • Christina Ho

  • Mikayla Kaliski

  • Scott Le

  • Noam Levi

  • Eric Luo

  • Eleanor Renata MIko

  • Vy Nguyen

  • Faith Nicoll

  • Jared Novelly

  • Maryam Parvinian 

  • Katya Polietkova

  • Kiara S.F. Pujalt

  • Elijah Chad Rowe

  • Viridiana Moreno Ruiz

  • Ethan Schoettler

  • Sina Shamisan

  • Emily Truong

  • Ana Viela

  • Ye Yu

  • Max Zhang

  • Ashley Zhao

Support Staff

Melissa Sweet, AirUCI Project Coordinator