Chemistry of Indoor Air Pollution

Azin Eftekhari is a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Nga Lee Ng in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering and obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering under the supervision of Professor Glenn Morrison at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her Ph.D. and postdoctoral studies, she has been involved in various projects focusing on indoor air pollution and the assessment of exposure to toxic chemicals.

Youngbo Won is a postdoctoral researcher in the Architectural Engineering Department of Penn State University. His research interests include IAQ and building HVAC systems. He is particularly interested in developing the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) models, analyzing chemical reactions and distributions of reactive species adjacent to occupants, applications of ultraviolet lighting systems and reactive species air cleaners to remove pathogens, and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation.

Glenn Morrison is an Environmental Science & Engineering professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley, and his research has primarily been related to indoor physics and chemistry. His research has included ozone-surface chemistry, acid–base chemistry, its role in sorption to indoor surfaces, methamphetamine contamination in buildings, aerosol-SVOC modeling, and field measurements of reactive oxygen species in homes. In recent years, he has focused on the role of clothing in indoor chemistry and occupant exposure. From 2014 to 2016, he was the President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ).

Nga Lee Ng is the Love Family Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned her doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral scientist at Aerodyne Research Inc. Dr. Ng's research focuses on understanding the chemical mechanisms of aerosol formation and composition, as well as their health effects. Her group combines laboratory chamber studies and ambient field measurements to study aerosols using advanced mass spectrometry techniques.