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people

current members

	Alan Shihadeh Principal Investigator Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: aerosol population dynamics; particle transport, deposition, and phase change phenomena; urban and indoor air pollution; pollutant formation in flames E-mail: as20@aub.edu.lb

	Issam Lakkis Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: grid-free computational fluid dynamics methods, reacting flows, micro-electromechanical systems E-mail: ilakkis@alum.mit.edu

	Ezzat Jaroudi Aerosol Lab Manager Master’s of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, AUB, 2006 Research Interests: particle size measurements and instrumentation, heat and mass transfer in porous media E-mail: ej04@aub.edu.lb

	Elizabeth Sepetdjian Research Associate Department of Chemistry, AUB Master of Science, Chemistry, AUB 2006 Research Interests: analytical chemistry of aerosols particles E-mail: evs01@aub.edu.lb

	Nancy Daher Graduate Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, second hand tobacco smoke, particle deposition in the upper respiratory system E-mail: nmd15@aub.edu.lb

	Elie Kfoury Assistant Instructor and Graduate Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: fixed bed combustion, pollutant formation kinetics

alumni

	Charbel Antonios Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: Shape Memory Alloy and instrumentation E-mail: antonios@vt.edu, charbelantonios@hotmail.com

	Sima Azar, MS Controls Engineer Revolutionary Engineering, Inc. Livonia, MI, USA Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, U New Mexico, 2005 E-mail: spa00@aub.edu.lb

	Thérèse Badr Post-doctoral Research Associate PhD in Mechanical and Energetic Engineering, Ecole des Mines - Douai, France, 2007 Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, fugitive dust emissions, particle deposition, environmental chemistry

	Mariam El Rashidi Graduate Research Assistant Department of Chemistry, AUB Research Interests: measurement of carbonyl compounds in particle and gas phases of tobacco smoke aerosols E-mail: mja13@aub.edu.lb

	Antoine Haddad Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: E-mail:

	Marwan H. Katurji PhD Candidate Center for Atmospheric Research University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, AUB 2005 Research Interests: aerosol sampling, modeling and measurement of atmospheric wind velocity features E-mail: mka94@student.canterbury.ac.nz

	May Khalil Graduate Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests: aerosol transport phenomena E-mail: mfk11@aub.edu.lb

	Bassel Monzer Graduate Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUB Research Interests:heat and mass transfer in porous beds, toxicant sources in tobacco smoke aerosols E-mail: bassel.monzer@gmail.com

	Rawad Saleh Visiting Research Engineer Doctoral Candidate, Duke University Master’s of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, AUB 2004 Research Interests: aerosol thermodynamics, and particle growth and evaporation kinetics E-mail: ras46@aub.edu.lb

	Hiba Sheheitli PhD Candidate Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Cornell University, Ithica, NY Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics E-mail: hs497@cornell.edu