Take a look at who is presenting this year!

All speakers including keynotes, podium, and poster presenters are listed below in alphabetical order.

Sultan Abdillah

Chung Yuan Christian University, P.hD Candidate
My name is Sultan Fat Ihza Abdillah, I am from Indonesia. Currently, I am taking my P.hD degree study in Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. My current topic is related to the spatiotemporal variability of Traffic-related UFPs, with emphasize on their exposure dose to nearby residences. I am also currently developing a transferable LUR model for UFPs to further investigates their health effects on various part of human circulatory systems. I have recently published a review paper related to ambient UFPs where I highlighted the potentials of using modelling approaches to solve data scarcity in performing UFPs health effects assessment. I hope I can share these informations with IAMA community through this proposed abstract via Podium Presentation.
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Mary Barth (Invited Speaker)

NCAR, Senior Scientist
Dr. Mary Barth is a Senior Scientist in NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling (ACOM) Laboratory and Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Her research emphasizes interactions between clouds and chemistry. Specific research topics include cloud effects on trace gases and aerosols, including scavenging by precipitation, lightning production of NOx, and aqueous chemistry,  as well as aerosol interactions with deep convection.
Session Speaker: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Thomas Berkemeier

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Group Leader
Thomas Berkemeier is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany. His research is centered around the mathematical description of multiphase processes in the atmosphere and the human body. His research team develops kinetic models and conducts laboratory experiments with the goal of understanding the chemistry and physics of atmospherically- and health-relevant processes at and across interfaces. The modelling of detailed chemical, physical and biological processes is supported by data-centric approaches and algorithms, including machine learning.
Poster Presenter

Julia Bruckert

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT Karlsruhe), Postdoc
During her PhD from June 2019 to April 2023, Julia Bruckert worked on modelling the dispersion and early stage development (up to 3-4 days) of plumes after explosive volcanic eruptions. She coupled a 1-D volcanic plume model (FPlume) to ICON-ART to improve the eruption source parameters and studied the effects of plume dynamics on the further development of volcanic plumes. Furthermore, Julia Bruckert investigated aerosol dynamics and aerosol-radiation interaction in the model and compared it to different observations in the first days. In her Postdoc project now, she will continue with these works on longer timescales with the same modelling system.
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Shannon Capps

Drexel University, Associate Professor
Poster Presenter

Ken Carslaw

University of Leeds, Professor
Ken Carslaw is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds. He has published over 250 papers on diverse topics of aerosols, clouds and climate. He is author of the book Aerosols and Climate and co-Chief editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Ken’s group developed the aerosol scheme for the UK Earth system model. Most recently he has worked with statisticians to find ways to quantify, understand and reduce uncertainty in several aerosol and cloud models.
Keynote Speaker: Perturbed parameter ensembles as a way to understand system behavior and improve models

Kam-Tung Chan

University of California, Davis, Graduate Student
Poster Competitor

Xue Meng (Sue) Chen

California Air Resources Board, Air Pollution Specialist
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Jeffrey Curtis

University of Illinois, Research Scientist
Jeffrey Curtis is a Research Scienist at the University of Illinois. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 2019. His research focus is on the development of numerical models for simulating aerosols with a focus on aerosol mixing state.
Poster Presenter

Zachary D'Aquino

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Graduate Research Assistant
Session Speaker & Poster Presenter: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Maegan DeLessio

Columbia University/NASA GISS, PhD Candidate
Maegan (Maggie) DeLessio is a PhD candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. She conducts her research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), where she investigates the radiative impact of absorbing organic aerosols, with a particular focus on biomass burning aerosols. Maggie uses the GISS ModelE Earth System Model to represent and study these aerosol species in addition to using regional- and global-scale observations to evaluate the model. She is interested in the future relevance of biomass burning aerosols given the likely decline of industrial particulate pollution. Maggie also organizes a weekly lunch seminar series at GISS, working to bring together GISS scientists to learn from guest speakers in the climate science field and particularly showcase the work of early-career scientists.
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Minghui Diao (Invited Speaker)

San Jose State University, Associate Professor
Dr. Minghui Diao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University (SJSU). She received the B.S. degree at Peking University and the Ph.D. degree at Princeton University. Some of the awards that she received include the SJSU Early Career Investigator Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship, NCAR Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA NESSF Graduate Fellowship, and the Princeton Francis Upton Fellowship (the highest graduate fellowship given by the School of Engineering and Applied Mathematics). Her current research interests include using integrated observations and model simulations to support air quality and health assessment in California, as well as improving the understanding of cloud-aerosol interactions in a changing climate. For more information, please see her website: www.cloud-research.org.
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Laura Fierce (Invited Speaker)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Scientist
Laura Fierce is an Earth Scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research focuses on advancing the predictive understanding of aerosol effects on clouds and radiation through improved representation of multiscale aerosol processes. She specializes in particle-based methods for simulating aerosol size-composition distributions, through the development of quadrature-based moment methods and the application of Monte Carlo methods. Dr. Fierce began her career in the DOE national laboratory system as a postdoctoral fellow, funded by a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, where she explored extending the Quadrature Method of Moments for simulation of multivariate aerosol distributions. More recently, she led the development of the Quadrature-based model of Respiratory Aerosol and Droplets to simulate the evolution of infectious respiratory particles within indoor spaces. In addition to developing novel approaches for simulating aerosol microphysics, Dr. Fierce applies particle-resolved Monte Carlo modelling to evaluate and improve existing aerosol schemes.
Session Speaker: Fundamental Aerosol Processes from Nano- to Microscale

Samuel Frederick

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Graduate Student, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Sam Frederick is a graduate student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is advised by Dr. Nicole Riemer. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, Sam received a BS in physics from Davidson College in Davidson, NC. From October 2019 to July 2022, Sam served as a post-baccalaureate contractor with ORAU for EPA's Office of Research and Development where he developed tools for evaluating the performance of low-cost air sensors.
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Chloe (Yuchao) Gao

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University,
Chloe Gao received her BA in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Johns Hopkins in 2013. She continued her graduate studies in the Columbia University/NASA GISS joint graduate program and earned her PhD as a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow. Following her postdoctoral research at MIT and Princeton University/NOAA GFDL, Chloe started a tenure-track position at Fudan University in Shanghai. Chloe’s research interest focuses on the development of the state-of-the-art numerical tools that resolve aerosol physics and chemistry, with the goal of accurately simulating aerosol processes to improve our understanding of their impact on climate in a changing environment.
Poster Presenter

Andrew Geiss (Invited Speaker)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Data Scientist
Andrew Geiss is a data scientist in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change division. Andrew received his PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Washington in 2020. His research focuses on applications of machine learning and data science to various research areas in the atmospheric sciences, including climate modeling, satellite remote sensing, radar meteorology, and boundary layer dynamics.
Session Speaker: Machine Learning and Data Science

Priyanshu Gupta

BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY (BHU), PhD scholar
I, Priyanshu Gupta, Research Scholar at Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India. I recently completed my Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) under the supervision of Dr. Sunita Verma, BHU (expertise in the field of Aerosols and Trace Gases Monitoring and in-situ observations, Global and Regional Climate Chemistry Modelling of trace gases).
Poster Presenter

Paula Harder (Invited Speaker)

Fraunhofer ITWM, PhD student
Paula Harer is a final-year Ph.D. student working on deep learning for climate modeling together with the Fraunhofer ITWM, the University of Oxford, and Mila Quebec AI Institut. She is particularly interested in integrating physics constraints into neural networks and speeding up climate models with ML. She worked with aerosol models, wildfires, and super-resolution.
Session Speaker: Machine Learning and Data Science

Alma Hodzic (Invited Speaker)

NCAR, Scientist
Session Speaker: Development, Application, and Reduction of Gas- and/or Particle-Phase Chemical Mechanisms for Aerosol Predictions

Noora Hyttinen

University of Jyväskylä, Postdoctoral Researcher
Noora Hyttinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Her work focuses on quantum chemistry based thermodynamic properties of organic aerosol constituents.
Session Speaker: Fundamental Aerosol Processes from Nano- to Microscale

Siddharth Iyer (Invited Speaker)

Tampere University, Academy research fellow
Siddharth Iyer is an Academy Research Fellow at the Aerosol Physics Laboratory in Tampere University, Finland.  Siddharth’s research focuses on studying the gas-phase oxidation chemistry of biogenic and anthropogenic hydrocarbons. This is crucial for understanding the processes that precede the gas-to-particle conversion in the atmosphere. He is currently investigating the oxidation chemistry of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Tampere University.  Siddharth received his PhD from University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2019.
Session Speaker: Fundamental Aerosol Processes from Nano- to Microscale

Shantanu Jathar (Invited Speaker)

Colorado State University, Associate Professor
Dr. Jathar is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU). His research interests lie at the intersection of energy and the environment and at CSU he leads the Laboratory for Air Quality Research. He and his research group leverage laboratory experiments, field measurements, and numerical models to study the emissions, evolution, and properties of fine particles (or aerosols) arising from energy and combustion sources. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Government College of Engineering Pune, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he also worked as a postdoctoral scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California Davis.
Session Speaker: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Jia Jiang

UC Davis, Postdoc
Poster Presentation

Zhongjing Jiang

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Postdoc
I am Zhongjing Jiang, currently a postdoc affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). My primary research interests revolve around atmospheric chemistry, earth system modeling, and chemistry-climate interactions. I am now working on a cross-disciplinary, internally funded project to develop a novel, adaptable, and scalable computational framework for Optimal Experimental Design to advance climate model predictability.
Poster Presentation

Jakub Kubecka

Aarhus University, PostDoc
Jakub K. has been actively engaged in the field of atmospheric computational chemistry for more than a decade. His research primarily focuses on molecular clusters, investigating their formation in the atmosphere and their impact on the generation of new particles. Lately, Jakub has ventured into the realm of machine learning methods, employing it as an alternative to computationally demanding quantum chemistry calculations in his scientific endeavors.
Session Speaker: Machine Learning and Data Science

Sarika Kulkarni

California Air Resources Board, Staff Air Pollution Specialist
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Rachana Kulkarni

UIUC, Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Poster Presenter

Vikas Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, PhD Scholar
I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) in Climate Studies at IIT Bombay. My Ph.D. topic is “Development of a Machine Learning Framework for Real-Time Source Apportionment of Particulate Matter” and my research areas include low-cost particle sensors, satellite data, and source apportionment.
Poster Presenter

Kari Lehtinen  (Invited Speaker)

University of Eastern Finland, Professor
Professor Kari Lehtinen is currently dean of the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology at University of Eastern Finland. His more than 30 year-long career in research and education has focused on aerosol theory and modelling as well as transport phenomena, motivated by various applications in climate change, health effects of air pollutants and nanomaterial synthesis. He has supervised 25 PhD degrees and served as editor/associate editor of Aerosol Science and Technology and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Session Speaker: Fundamental Aerosol Processes from Nano- to Microscale

Jiachen Liu

Drexel University, Research Assistant
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Yicen Liu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Graduate student
Yicen Liu is a PhD student in Professor Nicole Riemer’s Research Group. She earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental science at Tongji University. In 2021 she got her Master at UIUC. Her research focuses on air pollution, aerosol modeling and atmospheric chemistry.
Session Speaker: Development, Application, and Reduction of Gas- and/or Particle-Phase Chemical Mechanisms for Aerosol Predictions

Regina Luu

University of California, Irvine, Graduate Student
Regina Luu is a second-year PhD student at the University of California, Irvine. As a part of the Shiraiwa group, her research is focused on the modeling of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) phase states and connecting those implications to global chemical transport models. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Emory University.
Poster Presentation

Vasudev Malyan

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, PhD Scholar
Vasudev is a doctoral student working at the Aerosol and Nanoparticle Technology Laboratory, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has completed his Master of Science degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The key areas of his research work are development and calibration of low-cost sensors using machine learning.
Poster Presentation

Eugene Mikhailov

Saint-Petersburg state university, professor
Session Speaker: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Adam Milsom (Invited Speaker)

University of Birmingham, Research Fellow
Adam is a physical chemist that applies common spectroscopic and X-ray techniques to problems in atmospheric chemistry. He also develops models of atmospheric aerosol and film processes to describe and interpret experimental results. He carried out his PhD with Dr Christian Pfrang (Birmingham) and Dr Adam Squires (Bath) at the University of Birmingham and is currently a postdoc in Dr Pfrang's group. Adam has recently developed MultilayerPy: a tool for creating and optimising multi-layer models of aerosol processes.
Session Speaker: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Benjamin Murphy

U.S. EPA, Physical Scientist
Ben Murphy is a research staff member in the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development. He develops algorithms for modeling aerosols in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, which is used to inform air quality management and policy in the U.S. His work also includes improvement of emissions modeling and chemistry approaches with a focus on organic particles and vapors.
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Nanna Myllys

University of Helsinki, Academy research fellow
Session Speaker: Development, Application, and Reduction of Gas- and/or Particle-Phase Chemical Mechanisms for Aerosol Predictions

Manho Park

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Ph.D. Student
Manho Park is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His current research interest is employing data-driven science to advance numerical advection modeling in air quality models. To understand the general principles of advection or fluid dynamics, he enjoys swimming in his spare time.
Poster Presenter

Jeffrey Pierce

Colorado State University, Professor
Jeffrey Pierce is a Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.  His group's research focuses on atmospheric aerosols, their physical and chemical evolution in the atmosphere, and their impacts on climate and health. They aim to blend models and observations to learn cool new things! He currently serves on NASA's Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team (HAQAST) and is an author of the current US National Climate Assessment.
Keynote Speaker: Representing the evolution of biomass burning aerosols in models

Havala Pye

US EPA, Research Scientist
Dr. Pye is a research scientist in the US EPA Office of Research and Development where she uses computer models to understand what governs chemicals in air: from emissions through chemical and physical transformation and ultimately removal. She is currently leading efforts to build a new chemical mechanism for use in CMAQ and that couples gas and organic aerosol chemistry. Dr. Pye is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Dr. Pye received her PhD in 2011 in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Environmental Science and Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. More information about her work is available at https://havalapye.wordpress.com/.
Poster Presenter

Quazi Ziaur Rasool

CIRES/NOAA CSL, Research Associate/Research Scientist 2
Poster Presenter

Mbiake Robert

University of Douala, Professor
Aged 62 Trained in molecular physics, I  focused my research on atmospheric pollutants and their impact on health. I am currently a Professor at the University of Douala where I teach while leading a research team

Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Hilda Sandström

Aalto University, Postdoctoral researcher
I am a computational chemist who specializes in planetary and atmospheric chemistry. I recieved my Ph.D. degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden during the spring of 2022. Currently, I am developing machine learning tools to assist the study of atmospheric processes with mass spectrometry.
Session Speaker: Machine Learning and Data Science

Karine Sartelet

CEREA, Ecole des Ponts, Dr
Karine Sartelet is a research scientist at CEREA, Ecole des Ponts, France. She received her PhD from Cambridge University (UK) in 2002, and was a postdoc fellow at CRIEPI (Japan) in 2004-2005. For the past two decades, her research has focused on modelling aerosols at different spatial scales (regional and local), taking into account the formation and evolution of ultrafine particles, as well as the properties of aerosol compounds, particularly for gas-particle partitioning (e.g. affinity with water, mixing state), and their interactions.
Poster Presenter

Meredith Schervish

University of California, Irvine, Postdoctoral Scholar
Meredith Schervish is a postdoctoral scholar in the Shiraiwa group at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD in chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on simulating particle microphysics and chemistry to understand how viscosity and non-ideality affect gas-particle partitioning and multiphase chemistry.
Poster Presenter

Ryan Schmedding

McGill University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, PhD student
Ryan Schmedding is a 4th year PhD student in the research group of Professor Andreas Zuend at McGill University. His research is focused on the role of aerosol particle size in determining aerosol physico-chemical properties. Prior to coming to McGill, he earned a Master of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Environmental Science and Engineering
Session Speaker & Poster Presenter: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Siegfried Schobesberger

University of Eastern Finland, Associate Professor
Siegfried Schobesberger is an Associate Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. His main research interests evolve around the formation and evolution of aerosol particles throughout the atmosphere, including new-particle formation, phase transition processes, aerosol chemistry, and the sources and sinks of aerosol-relevant trace gases. The primary research tools are online atmospheric mass spectrometers and fancy analysis techniques to make sense of their measurements. Siegfried's background include a postdoc period at the University of Washington (2015-2017, advisor Joel Thornton), and he received his PhD from the University of Helsinki in 2014 (Markku Kulmala, Doug Worsnop) and his MSc from the University of Vienna in 2008 (Paul Wagner).
Poster Presenter

Camilo Serrano Damha

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, PhD student
Camilo earned a BSc in Chemistry from McGill University and a BSc in Atmospheric Sciences from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is a PhD candidate in Prof. Zuend's group at McGill university. His current research project involves the development and implementation of aerosol thermodynamic models that represent essential physicochemical processes of organic aerosols such as gas–particle partitioning and liquid–liquid phase separation in chemical transport models.
Poster Presenter

Manabu Shiraiwa (Invited Speaker)

University of California, Irvine, Professor
Manabu Shiraiwa is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He received B.S. and M.S. at the University of Tokyo and PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 2011. He has worked as group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and as JSPS postdoc fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Ranjitkumar Solanki

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of the Technology, Ph.D. Student
I am cool and passionate to work
Poster Presenter

Wenhan Tang

Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate student
I am a first-year graduate student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. I join the aerosol simulation group, where I work with professor Nicole Riemer. I got my B.S. from Nanjing Univerisity of Information Science and Technology in 2019 and majored in Atmospheric Science. I am mainly interested in researching fundamental principles of the small-scale physical process of aerosol in the atmosphere, its impact on climate, and developing relevant models.
Poster Presenter

Maninder Thind

California Energy Commission/ Formerly University of Washington, Seattle, Research Manager/ Formerly PhD Candidate
Maninder Thind is currently a Research Manager in the California Energy Commission’s Energy-related Environmental Research Team which is part of Research & Development Division. Maninder manages environmental team’s research portfolio at the nexus of air quality, human health, and California’s clean energy transition. Before joining CEC, Maninder earned his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle where his research was focused on modeling and quantifying air quality, human health, and climate impacts from different energy systems including electricity generation and transportation.
Session Speaker: Air Quality Modeling for Health and Regulatory Assessments

Simone Tilmes (Invited Speaker)

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Dr.
Dr. Simone Tilmes is a Project Scientist III at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the co-chair of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) chemistry-climate working group. Her scientific interests cover the understanding and evaluation of chemical, aerosol and dynamical processes in chemistry-climate models. She has investigated past, present and future evolution of the ozone hole in both hemispheres based on models and observations. Further research includes interactions in tropospheric chemistry, aerosols, air quality, long-range transport of pollutants, and tropospheric ozone. She is also studying the impact of stratospheric aerosol intervention strategies on the Earth’s climate system, the hydrological cycle, sea-ice, and the impact of solar radiation management on dynamics and chemistry in both troposphere and stratosphere.
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

David Topping (Invited Speaker)

University of Manchester, Professor
Professor of the Digital Environment, working for many years in modelling the evolution of aerosol composition. An atmospheric scientist by trade, David has also spent many years working at the on smart city-environment-IoT projects and now spends most of working at the AI-environment interface.
Session Speaker: Machine Learning and Data Science

Kostas Tsigaridis

Columbia University and NASA GISS, Research Scientist
My research interests aim in understanding the role aerosols play in the Earth system, by studying the interactions and feedbacks between the atmosphere, the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean, and climate. I am currently working on a variety of topics related to aerosol research and their sources, sinks, and interactions with climate at various levels of complexity. My studies range from detailed aerosol processes such as the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA), to centennial time scale climate variability related to natural variability and external forcings. While my main expertise is organic aerosols, I am also experienced in working with all other aerosol types as well as tropospheric and stratospheric gas-phase and heterogeneous chemistry. I have extensively used both box models that I developed, and 3-dimensional global models: the TM3 chemistry/transport model, the IPSL general circulation model LMDz-INCA, and the GISS ModelE Earth System Model (ESM), for which I had contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports (AR5 and AR6) model development. Currently I am contributing to the development of the next generation of the NASA GISS ModelE ESM, the GISS ModelE3, which will be part of CMIP7.
Session Speaker: Machine Learning and Data Science

Pietro Vannucci

University of California, Berkeley, PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley/ORISE Fellow at U.S EPA
The work presented here was prepared by Pietro Vannucci, PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, working with researchers at the U.S. EPA as part of his fellowship through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Jun Wang (Invited Speaker)

University of Iowa, UC Riverside, Director of the Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lab
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Zhizhao WANG  (Invited Speaker)

CEREA/INERIS, Postdoctoral researcher
Zhizhao earned her PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. She works in the field of atmospheric aerosol modeling and its applications in understanding the formation and aging of secondary organic aerosols. Her research centers on the development and application of mechanism reduction algorithms that generate condensed SOA mechanisms from explicit VOC chemical mechanisms for 3-D air quality modeling.
Session Speaker: Development, Application, and Reduction of Gas- and/or Particle-Phase Chemical Mechanisms for Aerosol Predictions

Duncan Watson-Parris

University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Daniel Westervelt

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Associate Research Professor
Poster Presenter

Forwood (Woods) Wiser

Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, PhD Student
Forwood (Woods) Wiser is a fourth year PhD student with Professor Faye McNeill at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in Physics. His research focuses on developing algorithms for the reduction of chemical mechanisms and applying those algorithms to atmospheric chemistry. He has expertise in the fields of graph theory, algorithm design and complex systems.
Poster Presenter

Xiaotian Xu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, PhD student
Session Speaker: Process and Box Models of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics

Li (Kate) Zhang

CIRES University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA GSL, Research Scientist
Session Speaker: Advances in Regional and Global Scale Aerosol Modeling

Haofei Zhang   (Invited Speaker)

University of California, Riverside, Associate Professor
Haofei Zhang obtained his Ph.D. (2012) from UNC Chapel Hill under the guidance of Drs. Richard Kamens and Jason Surratt. Later, he joined LBNL and UC Berkeley as a postdoc (2012-2016) to work with Drs. Kevin Wilson and Allen Goldstein. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at UC Riverside. His research focuses on understanding the chemical mechanisms that lead to atmospheric oxidation of volatile organic compounds, formation of secondary organic aerosols, and the chemical evolution of organic aerosols. His group uses mass spectrometry techniques for chemical characterization and kinetic modeling to understand the chemical mechanisms. His recent research interests include chemical mechanisms of organic aerosol during oxidative aging, nighttime oxidation of biomass burning-derived volatile organic compounds and brown carbon formation, and phase state’s impact on biogenic secondary organic aerosol formation.
Session Speaker: Development, Application, and Reduction of Gas- and/or Particle-Phase Chemical Mechanisms for Aerosol Predictions

Zhonghua Zheng

The University of Manchester, Assistant Professor in Data Science & Environmental Analytics
Dr. Zhonghua Zheng is a Lecturer (equivalent in level to Assistant Professor in the USA) in Data Science and Environmental Analytics at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research interests include environmental data science, urban climate and environment, and air quality and aerosol properties. He received a Master of Computer Science degree and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Computational Science and Engineering, both from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Poster Presenter