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.  In addition, we regularly host visiting researchers from outside institutions as we build on collaborations and conduct joint research projects.

Postdoctoral Researchers Research Specialists Graduate Students Undergraduates
  • Dr. James Adams
  • Dr. Madeline Cooke
  • Dr. Arturo Jimenez-Chavez
  • Dr. Dervla Meegan Kumar
  • Dr. Sanjeevi Nagalingam
  • Dr. John Patterson
  • Dr. Ryan Reynolds
  • Dr. Zachary Schiffman 
  • Dr. Rebecca Scholten
  • Dr. Hui Wang
  • Dr. Zhaomin Yang
  • Dr. Claire Zarakas
  • Dr. Yingnan Zhang
  • Dr. Yu Zhao
  • Dr. Murat Aydin (Associate Researcher)
  • Dr. Barbara Barletta (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Yang Chen (Associate Researcher)
  • Dr. Nathan Crawford (Director of Scientific Computing)
  • Claudia Dewi (Jr Specialist)
  • Michael Ezell (Research Specialist)
  • Dr. Dominik Haering (Research Specialist)
  • Qingqing He (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. David Herman (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Pascale Lakey (Project Scientist)
  • Jin Hwan Lim (Associate Specialist)
  • Brent Love (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Michael MacKinnon (Sr. Research Scientist)
  • Dr. Shahir Masri (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Simone Meinardi (Associate Researcher)
  • Dr. Mingquan Mu (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Veronique Perraud (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Dmitrij Rappoport (Assistant Researcher)
  • Dr. Guaciara Santos (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Isobel Simpson (Associate Specialist)
  • Dr. Weihong Wang (Project Scientist)
  • Gloria Liu Weitz (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Lisa Wingen (Project Scientist)
  • Dr. Kai Wu (Senior Scientist)
  • Dr. Li Xu (Project Scientist)
  • Shayma Al Ali
  • Vine Blankenship
  • Janae Burks
  • Elizabeth Choy
  • Kristen Cramer
  • Teresa Palacios Diaz
  • Jonas Enders
  • Alasdair Fairhurst
  • Savannah Feretti
  • Margaux Fisher
  • Maria Angelica Flores
  • Claire Freimark
  • Samantha Frucht
  • Lily Garcia
  • Lena Gerritz
  • Jessica Granger-Jones
  • Youssef Harb
  • Megan Harmon
  • Erik Jackson
  • Lindsey Jenkins
  • Anthony Jue
  • Anna Kapp
  • Jinhyuk Kim
  • Maddy Landi
  • Sage Lauper-Cook
  • Chaewon Lim
  • Xiaomeng Lin
  • Lucia Liu
  • Yuan Liu
  • Regina Luu
  • Filip Mackowicz
  • Dhivya Manickam
  • Vassili McAnaney
  • Audrey Miles
  • Colleen Miller
  • Desiree-Gift Mills
  • Miranda Helena Miranda
  • Megan Mirkhanian
  • Chaithanya Krishna Moorthy
  • Kate Nguyen
  • Quinn Nguyen
  • Steven Nguyen
  • Lurui Niu
  • Jared Novelly
  • Kathleen Leon Parada
  • Praveen Prabhakar
  • Eddie Rangel
  • Benjamin Ransom
  • Berenice Rojas
  • Jackson Ryan
  • Cameron Schmidt
  • Eric Schmitt
  • Ethan Schoettler
  • Brynna Seligman
  • Connor Seto
  • Jared Sexton
  • Weronika Siek
  • Ellie Smith
  • Oriole Song
  • Catelynn Soong
  • Haley Staudmyer
  • Miko Stulajter
  • Wajeeha Umer
  • Hannah Verhaal
  • Jeremy Wakeen
  • Calum Wilson
  • Matt Zaragoza
  • Aaron Alog
  • Avisa Charmchi
  • Andrew Cho
  • Solaiman Farooqi
  • Nam Luu
  • Haroshun McDermott
  • Eleanor Miko
  • Audrey Nguyen
  • Brooke Obasi
  • Daniel Oh
  • Katya Polietkova
  • Kiara S.F. Pujalt
  • Elias Shehadeh
  • Emily Truong
  • Austin Wagner
  • Haoran Wang
  • Kevin Yang
  • Max Zhang

Support Staff

Dr. Sherry Tsai, AirUCI Project Administrator