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CMU-CAPS

The Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, located at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, consists of five interwoven research groups directed by faculty members associated with five academic departments (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Mechanical Engineering) and two colleges (the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon College of Science).
CAPS research goals is to is to substantially advance the state of knowledge concenring fine particulate matter, to provide policy-relevant research and to participate directly and actively in the evolution of environmental policy related to particulate matter.

CAPS Faculty

Peter Adams

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy

Climatic effects of atmospheric particulate matter (aerosols), global and regional models of atmospheric chemistry, air quality in developing countries.

Neil Donahue

Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Physical chemistry of atmospheric free radicals. High pressure discharge flow studies of kinetics and atmospheric oxidation mechanisms. Fundamental control of reactions potential energy surfaces and reaction dynamics.

Spyros Pandis

Professor, Chemical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy

Atmospheric aerosol physics and chemistry. Regional air quality modeling. Pollution control strategies.

Robinson Allen

Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy

Energy and environmental problems, especially combustion systems and air pollution. Laboratory and field characeterization of emissions sources. Energy policy.

Albert Presto

Assistant Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Field measurements of pollution sources. Impacts of Marcellus Shale activities on regional air quality. Emission and atmospheric transformation of organic species from combustion sources. Secondary organic aerosol formation Organic aerosol thermodynamics.

Ryan Sullivan

Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering

Laboratory and field experiments exploring chemical evolution and heterogeneous reactions of atmospheric particulate matter. Cloud nucleation properties of atmospheric particles, and aerosol-cloud-climate interactions. Aerosol hygroscopicity, cloud droplet activation, and nucleation properties. Development of instrumentation for single-particle analysis using laser-based mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, and optical tweezers.

Jen Coty

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Examining organic carbon and organic nitrogen species of biomass burning particles from a wide variety of woods and grasses at various stages of decomposition for specific fuel type tracers. Analyzing oxidized samples of biomass burning emissions to identify tracers linked to specific stages of atmospheric oxidation.

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