Our Research Team
The AQMEL research team comprises bright and innovative scholars who bring a diversity of experiences and perspectives to our group. Scroll below to learn more about our specialists, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate contributors.
Jennifer Ofodile
Ph.D. Candidate
Jennifer is a Ph.D. student in the UC Berkeley ESPM department and an NSF GRFP awardee. She is currently leading research on VOC characterization in indoor household environments and indoor air monitoring in impacted communities. She is also a 2023 Lau Fellow for Climate Equity and a 2022 UCOP Climate Neutrality Initiative fellow.
Yi Ji
Ph.D. Student
Yi is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She leads research that investigates the challenges of communicating wildfire exposure risks to the public.
Duncan Quevedo
Ph.D. Student
Duncan is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. He leads research on the development of air quality modeling tools for community applications and the use satellite imagery for air pollution management.
Cam Phelan
Ph.D. Student
Cam is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She leads research on wintertime air pollution during inversion events.
Sumukhi Prasad
Ph.D. Student
Sumu is Ph.D. student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She also is an NSF GRFP awardee. She is leading research on personal air pollution exposures and measurement biases.
Ivette Torres
Ph.D. Student
Ivette is Ph.D. student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She led the 2020-2023 CARB Year 2 Community Air Grant at UC Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) as project coordinator. She is also a UC Berkeley CEEJ seed grant recipient.
Sophie Castillo
Ph.D. Student
Sophie is Ph.D. student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She also is a UC Berkeley Chancellor's fellow. She is leading research at the intersection of air pollution and environmental justice.
Zoe Haynes
Undergraduate Researcher
Zoe is a civil engineering student at UC Berkeley. She is assisting with the EPA wildfire smoke exposure risk communication project. She is a 2023 SURF Fellow.
Parker Yang
Undergraduate Researcher
Parker is a civil engineering student at UC Berkeley. He is leading work for a collaboration with UC Berkeley Public Health and UCSF to understand personal exposures to air pollution in Richmond, CA. He also supports the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project.
Christopher Devlin
Undergraduate Researcher
Christopher is an environmental geography student. He is also a SEED scholar. He supports the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project.
Mara Lovric
Undergraduate Researcher
Mara is an energy engineering student at UC Berkeley. She is leading work in collaboration with Professor Lawal on air pollution impacts from changing public infrastructure.
Migdalia Sanchez
Undergraduate Researcher
Migdalia is a mechanical engineering student at UC Berkeley. She is also an NSF LSAMP/CAMP scholar. She is leading work at the intersection of indoor air quality and environmental justice.
Peri Muftuoglu
Undergraduate Researcher
Peri is an environmental engineering science student at UC Berkeley. She is leading work on indoor air quality on Berkeley's campus.
Srishti Hazra
Undergraduate Researcher
Srishti is a civil engineering student and supports the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project.
Anusha Ladha
High School Researcher
Anusha is supporting the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project.
Ishaan Gupta
High School Researcher
Ishaan is supporting the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project.
Undergraduate Volunteers
UC Riverside and Riverside City College volunteers support the CARB Community Air Grant research efforts. UC Berkeley undergraduates support our EPA STAR research.
Alumni
2023
Dr. Khanh Do, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside; now Postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University
Prof. Abiola Lawal, ASEE eFellows Postdoctoral Scholar; now Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut
Andrea Delgado, B.S. Environmental Science, UC Riverside
Charlotte Mourad, B.S. Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley
April Zhang, B.S. Data Science, B.S. Sustainable Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
2022
Sumukhi Prasad, M.S. Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Alexander Nguyen, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
2021
Sebastien Banales, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Karrengton Fountain, B.S. Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside
Arash Kashfi Yeganeh, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside
Jasmin Velasquez, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Ruoming Xu, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
2019
Anthony Arteaga, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Aaron Garcia, Aerospace Engineering, Riverside City College
Cole Lawless, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Ali Raza, B.A. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Saray Rodriguez, Business Information Systems, Riverside City College
Hector Soto, Electrical Engineering, Riverside City College
Priscilla Villegas, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Riverside City College
David Wilson, Electrical Engineering, Riverside City College