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 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.

In addition to our regular 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 three U.S. National Laboratories: Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL).  Our National Lab partners include:

• Dr. M. Lizabeth Alexander of PNNL

• Dr. James P. Cowin of PNNL

• Dr. Liem Dang of PNNL

• Dr. Bruce C. Garrett of PNNL

• Dr. Daniel J. Gaspar of PNNL

• Dr. Alexander Laskin of PNNL

• Dr. A. Scott Lea of PNNL

• Dr. Sotiris S. Xantheas of PNNL

• Dr. Lai-Sheng Wang of PNNL and Washington State University

• Dr. Alla Zelenyuk of PNNL
   

• Dr. Christopher J. Mundy of LLNL
   

• Dr. Frank Ogletree of LBNL

• Dr. Miquel Salmeron of LBNL

Advisory Panel
We are fortunate to have a number of eminent scientists and educators serving on our advisory committee, including:

• Dr. Everly Fleischer of UCI

• Dr. Jean Futrell of PNNL

• Dr. Carlos Gutierrez of California State University, Los Angeles

• Dr. Alan Lloyd, President, ICCI

• Dr. Scott Samuelsen of UCI

• Dr. Arthur Winer of UCLA

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. Raffaella D'Auria

• Mr. Michael Ezell,  AirUCI Senior Researcher

• Dr. Ronald Grimm

• Mr. Stanley Johnson,  AirUCI Senior Researcher

• Dr. Federico Karagulian

• Dr. Michael Kamboures

• Dr. Theresa McIntire, AirUCI Project Scientist

• Dr. Bosiljka Njegic

• Dr. Veronique Perraud

• Dr. Prasad Pokkunuri

• Dr. Jonathan Raff

• Dr. Lisa Wingen, AirUCI Project Scientist

• Dr. Yong Yu
   

• Nicole Barrentine

• Adam Bateman

• Matthew Brown

• Emily Bruns

• Karen Callahan

• Marc Carreras

• Ming Cheng

• Alex Cohan

• Christopher Dilbeck

• Christopher Harmon

• Dana Henricksen (undergraduate)

• Tanza Lewis

• Max Li (high school summer intern)

• Wei Luo

• Stephen Mang

• Allie Margarella

• Yannika Marrs (undergraduate)

• Samar Moussa

• Tran Nguyen

• Paul Nissenson

• Xiang Pan

• Nicole Richards

• James Taing

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