Spyros Pandis

PhD STUDENTS

Christopher Gurciullo (1998, Exxon/Mobil), Kevin Capaldo (1999, General Electric), Celia Cruz (1999, Merck), Asif Ansari (2000, Bayer), Jason West (2000, Professor, U. North Carolina), Timothy Raymond (2001, Professor, Bucknell U.), Bonyoung Koo (2003, ENVIRON), Juan Cabada (2004, Professor, ITESM, Mexico), Mireya Moya (2005, Professor, UNAM, Mexico), Kathleen Fahey (2005, California Air Resources Board), Charles Stanier (2006, Professor, U. Iowa), Timothy Gaydos (2006, Sparta Corp.), Satoshi Takahama (2007, UC San Diego), John Dawson (2008, US Environmental Protection Agency), Timothy Lane (2008, Bechtel Inc.), Jaegun Jung (2008, ENVIRON), Kristina Wagstrom (2009, U. Minnesota), Alexandra Tsimpidi (2009, Georgia Tech.), Vlasis Karydis (2009, Georgia Tech.), Byong Lee (2010, CMU), Gabriella Engelhard (2010, Conoco/Philips), Evangelia Kostenidou (2010, USC) [22]

Current PhD Students:Lea Hildbrandt (CMU), Benjamin Murphy (CMU), Melissa Day (CMU), Andrea Paciga (CMU), Michael Pikridas (U. Patras), Athanasios Megaritis (U. Patras), Magdalini Psichoudaki (U. Patras), Evagelos Louvaris (U. Patras), David Patoulias (U. Patras), Xakousti Skillakou (U. Patras), Kalliopi Florou (U. Patras), Laura Posner (CMU), Anna Siampani (U. Patras), Kaltsonoudis Christos (U. Patras), Georgia Theodoritsi (U. Patras) [15]

MS STUDENTS
Frederica Turner (1996, General Mills), Constantinos Dassios (2000, FORTH), Dara Lillis (2000, Kiodex), Sarah Rees (2003, CMU), Shaun Ferchack (2007, CMU), An WooJin (2007, U. Washington), Jae JungHo (2008, U. Massachusetts), Salvatore Farina (CMU), Dhurata Koraj (U. Tirana). [9]

Current MS Students: Longwei Lee (CMU), Junping Tang (CMU) [2]

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Merete Bilde (2001, Professor, U. Copenhagen), Andrey Khlystov (2004, Professor, Duke U.), Beth Wittig (2004, Professor, SUNY), Kara Huff. (2006, Professor, Southern Illinois U.), Ravi Prathak (2008, U. Hong Kong), Asa-Awuku, Akua (2009, Professor UC Riverside). [6]

Current Postdocs: Ilona Riipinen (CMU), Christos Fountoukis (FORTH). [2]

(1) EUCAARI (EU FP6 2007-2011) “European Integrated Project on Aerosol Cloud Climate Air Quality Interactions”: ICE-HT work involves development and evaluation of regional PM models, field measurements during EUCAARI intensives, emission inventory development, and CCN studies (210 k€).
(2) MEGAPOLI (EU FP7 2008-2011) “Megacities: Emissions, Urban Regional and Global Atmospheric Pollution and Climate Effects”: ICE-HT work involves evaluation and improvement of regional CTMs and measurements during the Paris-09 field study (200 k€).
(3) US National Science Foundation (2009-10) “Major Research Instrumentation: Acquisition of a Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer and a High-Resolution Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for Organic Aerosol Oxidation Studies” (490 k$, co-PI).
(4) US Environmental Protection Agency (2007-11) “Changes in Climate, Pollutant Emissions and US Air Quality: An Integrated Modelling Assessment”: Development of a coupled climate-mesoscale meteorology-global-regional air quality modelling system to investigate future air quality under different climate scenarios (PI, 950 k$).
(5) US National Science Foundation (2007-10) “Laboratory, Field, and Theoretical Studies of the Water Uptake of Fresh and Aged Atmospheric Particles” : Studies of aerosol-water interactions (PI, 550k$).
(6) US EPA (2007-10) “SOA Volatility Evolution: Formation and Oxidation over the Lifecycle of PM2.5”: Laboratory studies of the volatility distribution of secondary organic aerosol (PI, 600k$).
(7) EPRI (2010-11) “Evaluation and Continued Development of the Volatility Basis Set in Regional Chemical Transport Models” (PI, 180k$)
(8) PEGASOS (EU FP7 2010-2014) “Pan-European Gas-Aerosols-Climate Interaction Study” (PI, 8 M€)

• "Physical and Chemical Properties of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols," NSF-Career, $199,971, September 1995-August 1998, Principal Investigator.
• "Formation of Secondary Atmospheric Organic Aerosol," American Chemical Society-PRF, $23,000, September 1995- August 1996, Principal Investigator.
• “Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of Chemical Constituents at Summit, Greenland: Interpretation of the GISP-2 Ice Core,” $151,202, NSF, June 1995-May 1996, Co-Principal Investigator.
• "Investigating the Dynamics and Chemistry of Fog Formation and Dissipation," California Air Resources Board, $209,977, February 1995-June 1996, Co-Principal Investigator.
• "Chemical Constituents in Air and Snow at Summit, Greenland: Interpretation of the GISP-2 Ice Core," NSF, $101,427, July 1994-June 1995, Co-Principal Investigator.
• "Development of an Acid Deposition Model for the South Coast Air Basin of California," California Air Resources Board-Caltech, $383,000, September 1993-March 1995, Co-Principal Investigator.
• "Study of the Physical and Chemical Properties of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol," EPA, $365,123, September 1995-August 1998, Principal Investigator.
• "Development and Testing of a State-of-the-Art PMx Particulate Matter Module for Regional and Urban Photochemical Models", EPA, $412,041, September 1995-August 1998, Principal Investigator.
• “Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of Chemical Constituents at Summit, Greenland: Interpretation of the GISP-2 Ice Core,” NSF, $151,202, June 1995-May 1996, Co-Principal Investigator.
• "Advanced Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling", Principal Investigator, Exxon Educational Fund, $15,000, December 1995-November 1996, Principal Investigator.
• "Additional Analysis of the IMS-95 Data - Fog Dynamics and Fog/Aerosol Interactions”, State of California Air Resources Board, $105,598, May 1997- April 1998, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “California Regional PM10 Air Quality Study Data Analysis,” State of California Air Resources Board, $78,206, May 1997- April 1998, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Development of an Improved Aerosol Module for Urban and Regional Air Pollution Studies”, Coordinating Research Council, $126,671, June 1997-May 1999, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Research Consortium on Ozone and Fine Particle Formation in California and in the Northeastern United States”, EPA, $3,244,068, April 1998-March 2001, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Growth and Activation of Multicomponent Atmospheric Particles: The Role of Organics”, NSF, $280,000, April 1999-March 2002, Principal Investigator.
• “Sampling, Analysis, and Properties of Primary PM2.5: Application to Coal-Fired Utility Boilers”, Department of Energy, $199,948, 1999-2000, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “The Pittsburgh Atmospheric Particulate Matter Supersite”, US Environmental Protection Agency, $3,500,000, 1999-2004, Principal Investigator.
• “Atmospheric Aerosol Source-Receptor Relationships: The Role of Coal Fired Power Plants”, Department of Energy, $3,400,000, 2000-2004, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Major Research Instrumentation: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Measurement of Airborne Organics and Fine Particulate Matter”, US National Science Foundation, $360,000, 2004-2005, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Impacts of Climate Change and Global Emissions on US Air Quality: Development of an Integrated Modeling Framework and Sensitivity Assessment”, US Environmental Protection Agency, $900,000, 2003-2006, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Atmospheric Processing of Organic Particulate Matter: Formation, Properties, Long Range Transport and Removal”, US Environmental Protection Agency, $450,000, 2003-2006, Co-Principal Investigator.
• “Multicomponent Atmospheric Aerosol-Water Interactions”, National Science Foundation, $480,000, 2003-2007, Principal Investigator.

1. American Assoc. for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Annual Meeting, AAAR, Conference Chair, Houston, USA, 2005.
2. Aerosols: Properties, Processes and Climate, ESF-INTROP, ESF-INTROP, Conference Co-Chair, Heraklion, Greece, 2007.
3. European Aerosol Conference, HAAR, Conference Co-Chair, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2008.