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
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Kangwon University

Dr. Jean Rivera Rios
Postdoc, 2018-2023
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutger-New Brunswick

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
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
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


Debra Wu
Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2014
Current Position: Graduate student at University of California, Santa Barbara


Maximilian Nguyen
Undergraduate Researcher, 2012-2013
Current Position: Research Assistant at Havard University