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Graduate Students and Postdocs
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Lena Gerritz joined UCI after graduating from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in 2021. She is working on chemistry of reactive oxygen species in biomass burning aerosol as a joint member of the Nizkorodov group and the Shiraiwa group. In her free time, Lena likes to explore the outdoors hiking, running, and skiing and is always up for a game of pick up soccer. |
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Erik Jackson joined the group in the summer of 2025. He will be working on photochemistry of SOA. |
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Anthony Jue completed his B.S. and M.S. studies in Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego in 2023. Anthony is working on photochemical aging of organic aerosols, with a focus on photochemistry at interfaces between different phases in particles. |
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Lucia Liu joined the group in the Fall of 2021 as an undergraduate student. After getting her BS in Chemistry, with a minor in Psychology from UCI. She stayed in the group as a researcher and started her graduate training in the fall of 2022, under the joint advising by Prof. Celia Faiola and Prof. Sergey Nizkorodov. She loves cats, mass spectrometers, smog chambers, and science! |
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Dr. Zhaomin Yang is a postdoctoral researcher from Shandong University, Qingdao campus. She will be working in 2025-26 on chemistry of brown nitrogen compounds. Dr. Yang's expertise is in molecular chemistry leading to SOA formation and aging. For more details, view Dr. Yang's CV. |
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Matt Zaragoza graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2023 from University of Virginia, where he studied microplastic concentrations in remote streams. Matt is jointly advised by Prof. Annmarie Carlton and Prof. Sergey Nizkorodov, working on chemical interactions of biomass burning aerosol with cloud and fog water droplets. Matt is enjoying exercising, which is handy as we have a lot of heavy objects in the lab. |
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Undergraduate and Post-Bac Students
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Ethan Hery joined the group in as a summer research intern from Mt. San Antonio College. He is working on secondary brown carbon chemistry. |
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Noam Levi joined the group in the fall of 2024 to work on analysis of biomass and structural material burning smoke. She remained in the group in the summer 2025 as a post-bac researcher. |
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Eleanor Miko joined the group in winter quarter 2023 to work on photochemistry of atmospheric compounds at aqueous-organic interfaces. She was awarded Beckman Scholarship for 2025-26. |
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