Michael Polen (S 2018)

(he/him)

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About

Michael Polen graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD in Chemistry in 2018 and started teaching at McDaniel College immediately afterward. At CMU, Polen studied the impacts of particles from combustion (e.g. wildfires) on the formation and lifetime of cloud droplets. His studies mostly centered on analytical and environmental chemistry. At McDaniel, he is teaching the college’s general chemistry courses and he introduced a new interdisciplinary course exploring the chemistry of consumer products.

First Author Publications during PhD

Polen, M., Lawlis, E., & Sullivan, R.C. (2016). The unstable ice nucleation properties of Snomax® bacterial particles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(19). https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jd025251

Polen, M., Brubaker, T., Somers, J., & Sullivan, R.C. (2018). Cleaning up our water: Reducing interferences from nonhomogeneous freezing of “pure” water in droplet freezing assays of ice-nucleating particles. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(9), 5315–5334. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5315-2018