People
Lab Director - Dr. Andy Grieshop - Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering
email: agrieshop@ncsu.edu office: 431B Mann Hall
Curriculum Vitae Google Scholar Page ORCID Profile Link to Calendar: go.ncsu.edu/grieshop_calendar
Dr. Andy Grieshop joined NCSU in January, 2012. Dr. Grieshop was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia from 2008-2011. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and his MS in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to his re-entry to academia he led various other lives, working as a design engineer for a distributed energy technology start-up, teaching high school math and physics in New York City and building ecological toilets in a remote village in Mexico. He is an avid cyclist and enjoys a range of outdoor activities in his spare time.
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Graduate Students
Ashley Bittner Ph.D. Student asbittne@ncsu.edu office: 3101 Fitts Woolard Hall
Ashley joined the group in Fall 2017 as a PhD Student after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor's in Physics. She has previously worked in Rwanda, Ghana, and Malawi collecting field emission measurements from biomass burning and cookstove use. Her research interests include quantifying air pollutant emissions from biomass use, municipal solid waste burning, and other primary sources present mainly in developing regions, and modelling their effects on local air quality, personal exposure, and climate change. Ashley enjoys camping and backpacking, cooking, and coffee.
Current research: field measurements of cookstove emissions and usage
Stephanie Parsons Ph.D. Student sparson@ncsu.edu office: 3101 Fitts Woolard Hall
Stephanie joined the group in Spring 2019 as a PhD Student after graduating from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering. She has previously volunteered in Bolivia and Rwanda installing water distribution systems. Her research interests include evaluating the environmental and health impacts of energy poverty interventions, especially through interdisciplinary collaboration to investigate all dimensions of energy poverty. Stephanie enjoys playing frisbee, hiking, and traveling.
Current research: Energy poverty intervention evaluations, field measurements of cookstove emissions
Emily Floess Ph.D. Student emfloess@ncsu.edu office: 3101 Fitts Woolard Hall
Emily joined the group in Fall 2019 as a PhD student. She got her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After her Bachelor’s, Emily was a 5 year Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, teaching math, science, and adult education and worked for a water treatment nonprofit in Liberia for one year. While getting her master’s degree at Illinois, she measured emissions from improved and traditional stoves in China, brick kilns in Colombia and Nepal, and household energy usage in Nepal. Her master’s thesis project was developing a global solar resource map for a stored solar cooker. Her research interests are energy access and transitions in developing countries, and emissions from household energy sources. Emily likes running (especially ultras), biking, and travelling, and has been to every continent except Antarctica.
Current research: Energy poverty intervention evaluations, field measurements of cookstove emissions
Undergraduate Researchers
Contact Dr. Grieshop if you're interested in undergraduate research.
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Dr. Wyatt Champion (2017-2018) Research: Emissions from pellet-fed gasifier stoves in Rwanda, characterization of volatility and viscosity of secondary organic aerosols; Current position: ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow US EPA
Graduate Research Assistants
Aditya Sinha, Ph.D. (2020) Dissertation: Investigations of Fresh and Aged Biomass Burning Emissions in the Lab and Field;
Maksim Islam, Ph.D. (2020) Dissertation: Evaluation of Cookstove Technologies in a Field Intervention Trial in Rural India: Quantifying Indoor Air Quality and Emissions Performance; Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NCSU Atmospheric Sciences
Provat Saha, Ph.D. (2017) Dissertation: Investigation of Organic Aerosol Volatility in the Lab and Field; Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University CAPS
Stephen Reece, M.S. (2017) Thesis: On-Line and Batch Lab Measurements of Primary and Photochemically Aged Biomass Cookstove Emissions; Current Position: ORISE Fellow US EPA
Roshan Wathore, M.S. (2016) Thesis: In-use characterization of emissions and fuel-use of Traditional, Natural- and Forced-Draft cookstoves in Rural Malawi; Current position: Scientist, Energy and Resource Management Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, India
Ryan Repoff, M.S. (2015); Thesis: Bringing the Kitchen to the Lab: Data Analysis and Method Development for Lab Simulation of In-Field Operation of Biomass Cookstoves; Current position: Environmental Engineer with Arconic
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Haley Foard, Environmental Engineering, NCSU
Wesley Hayes, B.S. (2020) (EPPSA Undergraduate Fellow and Summer REU), Environmental Engineering, NCSU
Ky Tanner, B.S. (2020), REU, Environmental Engineering, NCSU
Stephanie Eberly, B.S. (2020), Mechanical Engineering, NCSU
Natalie Kraft, Nuclear Engineering, NCSU
Andrew Whitesell, B.S. (2020), REU, Environmental Engineering, NCSU
Elliott Hall, (Summer 2019, REU) Environmental Engineering, NCSU
Alyssa Sanderson, (Michigan State University) Summer, 2019 RISE Student
Thomas Alston, Environmental Engineering, NCSU
Amanda Vejins, Chemical Engineering, NCSU
Daniel Sodano, B.S. (2018) Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Sean Farley, B.S. (2018) Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Nick Coco, B.S. (2017) Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Megan Boland, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Henry Ricca, B.S. (2016) Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Mutian Ma, B. S. (2015) Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Paul Mera , B.S. (2014) Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Norman Hicks, B.S. (2012) Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University