
TEAMPACCC
Trends in Earth's Atmospheric Makeup: Pollution of the Air - Chemistry - Climate Connections
Our Team

Brenda Carbone
Administrative Assistant ||
bcarbone @ mit.edu
MIT, EAPS

Paolo Giani
pgiani@ mit.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT EAPS

Xinyuan Yu
Graduate Student, MIT EAPS
Chemistry-climate modeling, tropospheric ozone, detection and attribution.

Steph Elkins
Graduate Student,
MIT CEE/Heald Group
https://www.healdgroupmit.com/
Tropospheric ozone, chemistry-climate modeling, wildfires.
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT EAPS
Tropospheric ozone, chemistry-climate modeling, wildfires.

Joe Palmo
Graduate Student,
MIT CEE/Heald Group
https://www.healdgroupmit.com/
Tropospheric ozone, chemistry-climate modeling, wildfires.

Ursula Jongebloed
School of Science
Post Doctoral Fellow, MIT EAPS
Atmospheric chemistry modeling, laboratory experiments, remote sensing.

Isabella Dressel

Theo Avila
Graduate Student,
MIT EAPS
Chemistry-Climate Modeling, Climate Variability, Climate Impacts.

Hantao Wang
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT EAPS
Tropospheric Ozone,
Remote Sensing, Geostatistics, Environmental Health
.

Siyuan Shen
Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT EAPS
Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling, Machine Learning.
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MIT Alumni
Lin Htec, (Summer 2026 UROP)
Isabella Morado, (Summer 2026 UROP)
Megan Wright, (Summer 2026 UROP)
Sylvia Li, (Summer 2025 Research)
Lucas Jeongsuk Oh (PhD, MIT Aero Astro)
Madankui Tao (Postdoctoral Associate, MIT EAPS)
Louis Riviore (PhD, MIT EAPS)
Qindan Zhu (NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT EAPS)
Carlos Carrillo-Gallegos, (Research Support, MIT EAPS)
Vanessa Sun, (MIT Masters Degree, April, 2024)
Amy Shi, (Summer/Fall 2023 UROP, Pollution and heat co-occurrences)
Angelica Stewart, (MIT 2023 Summer Research Program Intern)
Christoph Staehl, (Visiting Student from University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
LDEO/Columbia Alumni
Muye Ru (Earth Institute Postdoctoral Researcher, also with Wolfram Schlenker in SIPA, now at Morgan Stanley)
Zhonghua Zheng (Postdoctoral Researcher, also with Daniel Westervelt at University of Manchester, UK)
Colleen Baublitz (Graduate Student, now at US EPA)
Sarah Hancock (Undergraduate Researcher, now at Harvard)
Xiaomeng Jin (Graduate Student, now at UC Berkeley)
Alex Karambelas (2016-2019 Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, now at NESCAUM)
Erik Helstrom (2018-2019 Research Assistant, now at MIT)
Daniel Westervelt (Associate Research Scientist, now Lamont Assistant Research Professor)
Jake Naimark (Undergraduate Researcher, now at Sunwealth Power)
Laurel Quinones (Undergraduate Researcher, now at Columbia Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Harry Singh (Undergraduate Researcher, now at Dartmouth)
Olivia Clifton (Graduate Student, now at NASA GISS)
Jean Guo (Graduate Student, Ramboll, deceased)
Nora Mascioli (Graduate Student, now at Scripps)
Lee Murray (2014-2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, now at Rochester University)
Daniel Halmos (2016 Summer Intern)
Lukas Valin (2013-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, now at U.S. EPA, RTP, NC)
Melissa Seto (2014 Summer Intern; 2015-16 senior thesis, at Columbia College)
Yuxing Ma (2015-16 CU Masters Research Intern)
Dantu Lu (2015 Fall CU Masters Research Intern)
Mike He (2015 Fall CU MSPH Semester Research Intern, MSPH PhD)
Harald Rieder (2012-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, U Graz, Austria, now at BOKU, Austria)
Cynthia Zucker (Undergraduate Senior Thesis; 2016 Summer Intern)
Clara Ma (2017 Summer Intern with Dan)
El Pressman (2017 Summer & Fall Intern with Olivia)
And we are grateful to have worked for over a decade with Gus Correa (systems analyst/programmer) and for many years with George Milly (Research Analyst/Programmer) at LDEO/Columbia!
