Brian Dinkelacker (E 2022)
(he/him)
About
Brian Dinkelacker was a 2018-2019 Steinbrenner Doctoral Fellow and recently received his doctor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He successfully defended his thesis, “Chemical transport modeling of atmospheric aerosol at regional and urban scales,” in July 2022. For his PhD research, he “worked on the continuous development and evaluation of the state-of-the-art chemical transport model, PMCAMx; developed improved parameterizations of secondary organic aerosol formation from the atmospheric chemical aging of monoterpene oxidation products; produced high-resolution predictions of source- and species-resolved PM2.5 concentrations fields for application to epidemiology and environmental justice studies; and developed and evaluated machine learning applications for resolution downscaling of source- and species-resolved PM2.5 concentrations.” He is now a scientist in Exposure Sciences and Epidemiology at ExxonMobil.
Publications during PhD
Dinkelacker, B.T., & Pandis, S.N. (2021). Effect of chemical aging of monoterpene products on biogenic secondary organic aerosol concentrations. Atmospheric Environment, 254, 118381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118381
Garcia Rivera, P., Dinkelacker, B.T., Kioutsioukis, I., Adams, P.J., & Pandis, S.N. (2022). Source-resolved variability of fine particulate matter and human exposure in an urban area. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(3), 2011–2027. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2011-2022