People

Our Team

The Director and Principal Investigator for AirUCI is Professor
Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts of UC Irvine.  Her co-PIs, also from UCI, are:

• Professor Donald Dabdub

• Professor Filipp U. Furche

• Professor R. Benny Gerber

• Professor and Dean John C. Hemminger (AirUCI co-director)

• Professor Sergey Nizkorodov

• Professor Douglas J. Tobias (AirUCI co-director)

Left to right: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Donald Dabdub, Sergey Nizkorodov, Benny Gerber, Doug Tobias, John Hemminger.

Additional PIs joined AirUCI when we became an ORU in July, 2008.

School of Physical Sciences

• Dr. Donald R. Blake
• Dr. Michael B. Dennin
• Dr. Michael J. Prather
• Dr. Eric S. Saltzman

Henry Samueli School of Engineering

• Dr. William J. Cooper
• Dr. G. Scott Samuelsen

College of Health Sciences

• Dr. Ralph Delfino
• Dr. Michael T. Kleinman
• Dr. Robert  F. Phalen
• Dr. Jun Wu

In addition to our AirUCI team, we frequently invite visiting researchers to come to UCI and conduct collaborative research in our labs for weeks or months at a time.

Awards    See details about our award-winning team!

International
Several international researchers are members of our AirUCI team, including:

• Dr. Pavel Jungwirth at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

• Dr. Leon F. Phillips at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Dr. Martina Roeselová at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

   
Left to right: Pavel Jungwirth, Martina Roeselová, Leon Phillips.

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

• Dr. M. Lizabeth Alexander of PNNL

• Dr. Liem Dang of PNNL

• Dr. Bruce C. Garrett of PNNL

• Dr. Alexander Laskin of PNNL

• Dr. Julia Laskin of PNNL

• Dr. A. Scott Lea of PNNL

• Dr. Christopher J. Mundy of PNNL

• Dr. Sotiris S. Xantheas of PNNL

• Dr. Alla Zelenyuk of PNNL
   

• Dr. Miquel Salmeron of LBNL
   

• Dr. Lai-Sheng Wang of Brown University

Research Team
Much of our work is carried out by our talented research team, comprised of post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students.  Our summer staff includes chemistry teachers at the community college and high school levels who share with their students the latest research results from our projects.

• Dr. David Bones

• Dr. Anindita Chaudhuri

• Mr. Michael Ezell,  AirUCI Senior Researcher

• Dr. Aline Gratien

• Mr. Stanley Johnson,  AirUCI Senior Researcher

• Dr. Yan Li

• Dr. Theresa McIntire, AirUCI Project Scientist

• Dr. Paul Nissenson

• Dr. Veronique Perraud

• Dr. Madeleine Pincu

• Dr. Jonathan Raff

• Dr. Lisa Wingen, AirUCI Project Scientist
   

• Nicole Barrentine

• Adam Bateman

• Emily Bruns

• Karen Callahan

• Marc Carreras

• Ming Cheng

• Alex Cohan

• Christopher Dilbeck

• Christopher Harmon

• Tanza Lewis

• Allie Margarella

• Samar Moussa

• Tran Nguyen

• Xiang Pan

• Mark Peterson (undergraduate)

• Nicole Richards

• James Taing

• Jordan Vincent

Dr. James N. Pitts Jr. is an additional resource for our team.  He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, co-founder and past director of the University of California Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, and is currently a Research Chemist at UCI.

Support Staff

• Melissa Sweet, AirUCI Project Coordinator 

• Jennifer Collopy, AirUCI Administrative Assistant