Dr. Shupeng Zhu works with Prof. Donald Dabdub in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering on modeling aerosol dynamics and chemistry. He is currently working on an EPA funded project to investigate the role of ammonia NH4 in secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation. This work is important because the emission of NH4 is significant (largely from anthropogenic activities), and laboratory findings suggest NH4 actively participates in the formation of SOA (a major and harmful pollutant). Both NH4 and SOA precursors are expected to increase in the future due to global warming so improving the understanding of relationship between NH4 and SOA would help both air quality model performance and policy makers’ decision.
Shupeng received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Est, France, in 2015. During this time, he developed a size-composition resolved aerosol model (SCRAM) to simulate the mixing processes of multiple aerosol populations, and investigated the influence of mixing state on particle properties through simulations over Greater Paris. Shupeng received the Bricard Award 2016 from the French Association for Studies and Research on Aerosols.