The UCI Face Mask Project is a collaboration between an aerosol chemist, an environmental toxicologist, a pediatric neurologist, and an engineer specializing in wearable robotics:
Jim Smith leads the Ultrafine Aerosol Group at UCI and is focused on understanding the behavior of both gases and particles in order to understand atmospheric aerosol and how they impact human health. He leads the effort in quantifying material filtration properties including the testing infrastructure and data analysis.
Mike Kleinman, in the School of Medicine at UCI, is an expert in the health effects of air pollution on animals and humans and develops analytical techniques for assessing biological and physiological responses to exposure to (from) environmental contaminants. Mike assists Jim in evaluating the efficacy of the prototype masks including testing infrastructure and data analysis.
Terry Sanger, in the UCI School of Engineering and the Children’s Hospital of Orange County, is an Electrical Engineer, Computational Neuroscientist, and Child Neurologist specializing in research and treatment of movement disorders in children. He serves in an advisory role, providing critical feedback on mask design from the perspective of a health care worker.
Jonathan Realmuto, working with Terence Sanger, researches wearable and assistive robotics, including physical human-robot interaction. Jonathan leverages his expertise in textiles and body-mounted devices to identify candidate filtration material and fabricate prototype masks.