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Ellis S. Robinson

Joint Assistant Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (home)
Ellis Robinson, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Harshbarger 142C

esrobinson@arizona.edu
Pronouns:
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  • Air Qual Engr & Poll Ctrl
    CHEE 336 (Spring 2026)
  • Research
    CHEE 900 (Spring 2026)
  • Directed Research
    CHEE 392 (Fall 2025)
  • Dissertation
    CHEE 920 (Fall 2025)
  • Research
    CHEE 900 (Fall 2025)nI study air pollution-how it gets made, where it goes, who breathes it, and what happens to it.

    Some current active research projects include:

    • Understanding ozone formation and exceedances in urban Arizona
    • Aerosol composition and sources, including dust, in Tucson
    • Atmospheric transformations, sources, and impacts of ethylene oxide and other HAPs
    • Mobile monitoring of urban air pollution
    • Indoor air quality intervention assessment

    Previously, I was Research Engineer in Peter DeCarlo’s lab in the Environmental Health & Engineering department at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to JHU, I worked as a postdoc in the Center for Atmospheric Particles Studies (CAPS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA on the EPA CACES project with Albert Presto, Allen Robinson, and others. CAPS is also where I did graduate school, working under the supervision of Neil Donahue in Chemical Engineering at CMU. Between my PhD and postdoc at CMU, I did a postdoc at the NOAA Earth Science Research Laboratory, in Boulder, CO.

    I am always looking to recruit motivated students from undergraduate to Ph.D. to work on exciting science and engineering projects in both indoor and outdoor air quality. Please contact me if you are interested!I study air pollution-how it gets made, where it goes, who breathes it, and what happens to it.

    Some current active research projects include:

    • Understanding ozone formation and exceedances in urban Arizona
    • Aerosol composition and sources, including dust, in Tucson
    • Atmospheric transformations, sources, and impacts of ethylene oxide and other HAPs
    • Mobile monitoring of urban air pollution
    • Indoor air quality intervention assessment

    Previously, I was Research Engineer in Peter DeCarlo’s lab in the Environmental Health & Engineering department at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to JHU, I worked as a postdoc in the Center for Atmospheric Particles Studies (CAPS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA on the EPA CACES project with Albert Presto, Allen Robinson, and others. CAPS is also where I did graduate school, working under the supervision of Neil Donahue in Chemical Engineering at CMU. Between my PhD and postdoc at CMU, I did a postdoc at the NOAA Earth Science Research Laboratory, in Boulder, CO.

    I am always looking to recruit motivated students from undergraduate to Ph.D. to work on exciting science and engineering projects in both indoor and outdoor air quality. Please contact me if you are interested!bb

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • B.S. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States

Teaching Interests

Environmental engineering, chemical engineering, atmospheric chemistry, air pollution control technology, environmental analytical chemistry, air sampling and analysis

Research Interests

Atmospheric aerosols, air pollution, air quality, risk assessment, air pollution measurement, emissions factors, exposure assessment