Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and of Chemistry. Ph.D., 1993, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral fellow, 1996, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Research Associate, 1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Analytical/physical/environmental/atmospheric chemistry. Kinetics and mechanism of gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions. Laboratory studies of formation, growth, and chemical and physical properties of atmospheric aerosols. Modeling of photochemistry and aerosol chemistry. Atmospheric measurements of trace gas species and aerosols.

Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry monitoring and modeling Gaseous and heterogeneous kinetics Nano particle nucleation and growth Mass spectrometry and aerosol instrumentation

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