Wayne Chuang (E 2016)
(he/him)
About
Wayne Chuang is an atmospheric scientist with a background in chemical engineering and a passion for climate issues. He is currently an Air Quality Planner and Analyst at the Regional Air Quality Council of Colorado, where he is “working on air quality control strategies, development of the State Implementation Plan, and photochemical modeling analysis.” Chuang earned his doctor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. His thesis, “Modeling Organic Aerosol Formation from Alpha-Pinene Ozonolysis in the Volatility Basis Set Framework,” studies organic aerosol (OA), “the chemistry that these organic precursors undergo [when they are released], and the products that are formed.”
Publications during PhD
Chuang, W.K., & Donahue, N.M. (2017). Dynamic consideration of smog chamber experiments. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 10019–10036. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10019-2017
Chuang, W.K., & Donahue, N.M. (2016). A two-dimensional volatility basis set – Part 3: Prognostic modeling and NOx dependence. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 123–134. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-123-2016
Tröstl, J., Chuang, W.K., Gordon, H., Heinritzi, M., Yan, C., Molteni, U., Ahlm, L., Frege, C., Bianchi, F., Wagner, R., Simon, M., Lehtipalo, K., Williamson, C., Craven, J.S., Duplissy, J., Adamov, A., Almeida, J., Bernhammer, A.K., Breitenlechner, M., … Baltensperger, U. (2016). The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere. Nature, 533(7604), 527–531. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18271