Awards

Cullen-Peck Faculty Fellow Award, 2007 Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development, 2007 Whitby Award, American Association for Aerosol Research, 2005 NASA Global Change Graduate Fellowship

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1995 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1991 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1987

Research

Atmospheric aerosols, sources and processing Urban air quality/Health Effects Mechanisms and conditions for new particle formation by homogeneous nucleation Particle growth processes These interests are investigated by devolpment of new instruments, (e.g., the particle into liquid sampler, PILS) and participating in numerous field studies