Alumni

Ph.D. Students

Masayuki Takeuchi

Ph.D. Student, 2015-2023

Thesis Title: Understanding the formation of secondary organic aerosol and the fates of organic nitrates formed from monoterpene oxidation

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Colorado Boulder, Daven Henze’s group

Taekyu Joo

Ph.D. Student, 2015-2021

Thesis Title: Secondary organic aerosol formation from the oxidation of furans emitted from biomass burning and their possible impacts on radiative forcing

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University

Yunle Chen

Ph.D. Student. 2015-2020

Thesis Title: Organic aerosol composition in the southeastern United States: sources, mechanisms, and the role of organic acids

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Rochester, Phil Hopke group

Gamze Eris

Ph.D. Student, 2015-2020

Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Iogenics Electrochemical Technologies

Wing-Yin Tuet

Ph. D. Student, 2013-2018

Thesis Title: Cellular and acellular assays for measuring oxidative stress induced by ambient and laboratory-generated aerosols

Current Position: Postdoc at US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense

Christopher Boyd

Ph.D. Student, 2012-2016

Thesis Title: Formation and Fate of Secondary Organic Aerosol Produced from Nitrate Radical Oxidation of Monoterpenes

Current Position: Engineer at AECOM

Lu Xu

Ph.D. Student, 2011-2016

Thesis Title: Effects of Anthropogenic Emissions on Biogenic Organic Aerosol Formation in the Southeastern United States

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

M.S. Students

Anomitra De

M.S. Student, 2023-2024

Nara Shin

M.S. Student, 2020-2023

Daniel Alvarado-Velez

M.S. Student, 2020-2022

Gabriela Saavedra

M.S. Student, 2017-2019

Thesis Title: Formation and Fate of Secondary Organic Aerosol Produced from Nitrate Radical Oxidation of Monoterpenes

Current Position: Staff Scientist, Environmental Planning Specialists, Inc.

Yi Ji

M.S. Student, 2015-2018

Javier Sanchez

M.S. Student, 2013-2016

Current Position: Engineer at Jacobs

Post-Docs

Dr. Michelia Dam

Postdoc, 2024

Current Position: Air Pollution Specialist at California Air Resources Board

Dr. Yutong Liang

Postdoc, 2022-2023

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment, HKUST

Dr. Narae Choi

Postdoc, 2021-2023

Dr. Jean Rivera Rios

Postdoc, 2018-2023

Dr. Alison Fankahuser

Research Professional, 2023

Current Position: Physical scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Dr. Yuchen Wang

Postdoc, 2019-2022

Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Engineering, Hunan University, China

Dr. Azin Efterkhari

Postdoc, 2022

Dr. Fobang Liu

Postdoc, 2018-2022, Co-advised by Dr. Hang Lu (ChBE)

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Thomas Berkemeier

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018

Current Position: Grouper Leader, Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany

Dr. Sandra Blair

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017, Co-advised by Dr. Facundo Fernandez (Chemistry)

Current Position: Air quality chemist at South Coast Air Quality Management District

Dr. Theodora Nah

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2016

Visiting Scholars

Qiqi Zhou

Visiting Undergraduate Student, Pecking University, 2024

Office: ES&T 3314

Xin Wang

Visiting Scholar, 2019-2020

Weiqi Xu

Visiting Scholar, 2018-2020

Zijing Zhang

Visiting Undergraduate Student from Peking University, 2019

Dao Huang

Visiting Professor from Zhejiang University, 2016-2017

Qiao Zhu

Visiting Graduate Student from Peking University, 2016

Samara Carbone

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar from the University of Sao Paulo (Paulo Artaxo group), Brazil, 2015

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

Undergraduate Students

Ankith N Thalanki

Undergraduate Researcher, 2024

Abdulaziz Memesh

Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2024

Marwan Sharaf

Undergraduate Researcher, 2023

Sareum Kim

Undergraduate Researcher. 2022-2023

Zahra Shivji

Undergraduate Researcher, 2022-2023

Aaron Black

Undergraduate Researcher, 2022

Abdulghafoor Tifoni

Undergraduate Researcher, 2020-2022

Current Position: Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University

Laura Yang

Undergraduate Researcher, 2019-2021

Current Position: Graduate student in Professor Daniel Jacob‘s group at Harvard

Kevin Jorgih

Undergraduate Researcher, 2020-2021

Sophie McCabe

Undergraduate Researcher, 2021

Amanda Schwartz

Undergraduate Researcher, 2019-2021

Aleyra Gonzalez

Undergraduate Researcher, 2021

Josh Whitley

Undergraduate Researcher, 2018-2020

Alec Hendrix

Undergraduate Researcher, 2017-2019

Current Position: Process Engineer at Texas Instruments

Adam Wright

Undergraduate Researcher, 2019

Steve Kim

Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2018

Current Position: Graduate student at California Institute of Technology

James Rowe

Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2017

Current Position: Graduate student in Jesse Kroll group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Shierly Fok

Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2017

Keri Hannukainen

Undergraduate Researcher, 2014-2015

Current Position: Process Design Engineer at Ascend Performance Materials

Zeyao Luan

Undergraduate Researcher, 2014-2015

Mariana Rivas

REU student from University of California, Berkeley, 2015

Siri Kore

Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2014

Current Position: Engineer at BASF

Debra Wu

Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2014

Current Position: Graduate student at University of California, Santa Barbara

Sriram Suresh

Undergraduate Researcher, 2012-2014

Current Position: Process Engineer at ExxonMobil

Maximilian Nguyen

Undergraduate Researcher, 2012-2013

Current Position: Research Assistant at Havard University