Dr. Kelley Barsanti (Principal Investigator)

 Assistant Professor           

  - Ph.D., Environmental Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 2006

  - M.S., Environmental Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 2001

  - B.A., Environmental Biology and Environmental Studies, CU Boulder, 1996

 CONTACT INFORMATION                   

Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Center for Environmental Research & Technology (CE - CERT)

Tel:  (+1) 951-827-3152

e-mail: kbarsanti@engr.ucr.edu

Bio

Kelley Barsanti received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from the OGI School of Science & Engineering. She then served as an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Barsanti’s research focuses on the development of mechanistic models for the prediction of atmospheric particulate matter (“aerosols”). Her primary research tools include comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and process-level models to elucidate chemical and physical transformations of organic compounds as they evolve from gaseous emissions to particle constituents. Current research projects include improving speciation of organic compounds in emissions inventories for biomass burning and other combustion sources; improving model representation of secondary organic aerosol in biomass burning plumes; and developing models of new particle formation.

Current Members

 Dr. Lindsay Hatch

  Assistant Project Scientist 

 - NSF-AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Portland State University, 2012-2014

 - Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, 2012

 - M.S. in Analytical Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, 2008

 - B.A. in Chemistry, Smith College, 2006

 e-mail: lhatch@engr.ucr.edu 

Research Areas

• Chemical characterization of biomass burning emissions and atmospheric composition 
• Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation chemistry
• Identification of understudied SOA precursors
• Two-dimensional gas chromatography
• Mass spectrometry

Dr. Avi Lavi

Post Doctorate

 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC-Riverside, 2007-now

 - PhD Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2015

 - MS.C Electrochemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Israel,  2006

 - BS.C Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel ,2002

e-mail: avilavi@ucr.edu

Christos Stamatis

Ph.D Candidate

 - B.S., in Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2016

e-mail: cstam001@ucr.edu

Research Areas

• Pattern Recognition analysis applied to air quality samples
• Classification algorithms for mapping wildfires emissions with fire stages using Two-Dimensional-Gas-Chromatography (GC x GC - TOFMS)

Jia Jiang

Ph.D Candidate

 - M.E., in Geological Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2014

 - B.S., in Atmospheric Sciences, Zhejiang University, China, 2011

e-mail: jjian018@ucr.edu

Research Areas

• Gas phase chemical mechanism for ozone and SOA formation: mainly focusing on atmospheric oxidation of furan/furan derivatives
• PM-SAPRC model framework development: Gas-particle partitioning, Chamber-VBS based SOA parameterizations

Isaac Afreh

Ph.D Candidate

 - MS in Chemical Engineering, University of Akron, OH, 2013

 - BS in Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana, 2009

e-mail: iafre002@ucr.edu

Research Areas

• Exploring SOA formation from camphene using GECKO-A
• Optimizing model surrogates for monoterpenes to improve prediction of SOA
• Developing lumping schemes to better represent SOA precursors emitted from biomass burning