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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:

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:

   
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:


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


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            

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