People
We fuse diverse backgrounds to fuel research at the intersection of air quality, engineering, environmental chemistry, microbiology, and health.
Meet the team
Linsey Marr (CV)
PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
BS Engineering Science, Harvard
Dr. Marr seeks to characterize the emissions, fate, and transport of air pollutants in order to provide the scientific basis for improving air quality and health.
AJ Prussin, II
BS Biochemistry, BS Biology, Virginia Tech
PhD Plant Pathology, Virginia Tech
Dr. Prussin is a research scientist who studies the airborne microbiome and helps manage the AIR2 team. He was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow.
Jin Pan
PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua
Dr. Pan is studying the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus transmission.
David Kormos
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Ohio State University
David is a Ph.D. student who is investigating emissions of antimicrobial resistance genes to the atmosphere.
Alex Longest
BS Environmental Engineering, Bucknell University
Alex is a Ph.D. student who is studying the survival of viruses in droplets and aerosols.
Nishit Shetty
PhD Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering, Washington University
BTech Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Dr. Shetty is studying the mechanisms of influenza transmission as part of the MITIGATE FLU project.
James Hurley
PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
BS Chemistry, University of Colorado
Dr. Hurley is helping develop a micro gas chromatograph in collaboration with Dr. Masoud Agah's group.
Alumni
Mariah Gnegy, PhD, Engineer, Trinity Consultants
Jeonghyeon Ahn, Postdoc, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iowa
Kaisen Lin, MS and PhD, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Mike Milazzo, MS, Doctoral student at UC Berkeley
Archit Manuja, MS, Environmental Engineer, AECOM
Amy Olson, MS, Environmental Engineer, Dewberry
Craig Powers, PhD, Engineer, Iviyo Labs
D. Otto Schwake, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, Middle Georgia State University
Osman Karatum, Assistant Professor, Florida Gulf University
Zihan Wang, MS, Engineer, Straughan Environmental
Ray David, PhD, Civil Engineer, Greeley and Hansen
AJ Prussin, Postdoc, Research Scientist and Lab Manager, Virginia Tech
Mariya Munir, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Mari Titcombe Lee, Postdoc, Supervisory Chemist, US Geological Survey
Xinzhe Zhou, MS, Engineer
Andrea Tiwari, PhD, Applications Engineer, TSI, Inc.
Robert Bowers, Postdoc, Research Scientist, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Peeyush Khare, MS, Postdoctoral fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute/ETH
Bardia Heidari, MS, Research Scientist, Texas Water Resources Institute
Marina Vance, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
Wes Baggett, MS, Engineer, Trinity Consulting
Wan Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Mike Klapmeyer, PhD, Colonel, US Army
Jennifer Benning, Postdoc, Instructor, Virginia Tech
Chris Shores, MS, Engineer, Geosyntec
Tim Moore, PhD, Operations Manager, Tetra Tech
Amara Holder, Postdoc, Mechanical Engineer, US Environmental Protection Agency