Dr. Vikas Goel
Research Scientist
Virginia Tech
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About me:Dr. Vikas Goel is an atmospheric scientist with over a decade of research experience in air quality monitoring, aerosol characterization, source apportionment, instrument development, and secondary aerosol formation. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the development and testing of a miniaturized gas chromatograph (GC) for near–real-time chemical analysis of aerosols and oversees laboratory operations. Dr. Goel has extensive expertise in both field and laboratory studies and has worked with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation, including ACSM, Xact, PTR-ToF-MS, Aethalometer, SMPS and PAM reactors. He also has experience applying machine learning and deep learning techniques to analyze complex environmental datasets. His doctoral research at CSIR–National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, focused on the physico-chemical properties of atmospheric particles and their implications for aerosol optics, including optical modeling using T-matrix and DDA approaches. Dr. Goel has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and has received multiple international travel awards, reflecting his active contributions to the global aerosol research community.
Current affiliation:
Research Scientist, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Email: vikasgoel@vt.edu
Working group at VT: Prof. Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz
Experience:
Postdoctoral fellow (May 2024 - June 2025), Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, USA
Principal Project Scientist (Feb 2023 - May 2024), Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
Postdoctoral fellow (Dec 2020 - Dec 2022), School of Interdisciplinary Research, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India.
Research Associate (Feb 2020 - Dec 2020), Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India.
Ph.D.
Title: Physico-chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Particles: Implications to Aerosol Optics
Thesis supervisor: Dr. Sumit Kumar Mishra, Senior Principal Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
Research interest:
Physico-chemical characterization of tropospheric aerosol particles; secondary aerosol formation; aging of carbonaceous aerosols and atmospheric dust, health risk assessment, optical properties of aerosol particles; Vertical variation of aerosols’ physico-chemical properties using UAV; Air pollutant source apportionment.
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