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Welcome to my website, I’m a Senior Scientist at Aerodyne Research Inc. My research focuses on the emission and evolution of semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) across indoor and outdoor environments and studies their impacts on climate and health. The emission, transport, and transformation of semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) influence the environmental quality and public health across different spatial scales. At the building scale, thousands of different compounds are released regularly from consumer products into indoor air and create significant health risks to indoor occupants. Those SVOCs, after transporting further to the atmosphere, may serve as fuel to form SOA and ultimately be transformed into carbon dioxide. Dry (i.e., removal via concentration gradient or gravity) and wet deposition (i.e., removal via rain or snow) can move these particles and gases into soils, plants, and water, dispersing these transformed emissions throughout the environment. Consequently, a complete study of the fate and transformations of organics across all phases and through multiple spatial scales is necessary to fully understand and predict the health and climate effects of emissions.

I intend to obtain a complete understanding of the fate and transformation of airborne organics across indoor and outdoor environments and assess their impacts on aerosol formation and human health. My specific research goals are to:

  1. Understand the role of building physical systems in modulating the emission of aerosol-forming organics as they are emitted indoors, move throughout indoor space, and ultimately impact human health, outdoor air quality, and climate.
  2. Improve constraints on the dry and wet deposition of organics from the atmosphere and understand the influence of deposition on atmospheric chemistry.
  3. Apply the system-of-systems framework at the nexus of air quality, health, and climate to increase synergies and minimize trade-offs between different goals.