Appendix B
Committee Biosketches
David C. Dorman (Chair) is a professor of toxicology in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina State University. Dr. Dorman’s research interests include neurotoxicology, nasal toxicology, pharmacokinetics, and cognition and olfaction in animals. Dr. Dorman is an elected fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Dr. Dorman is a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and the American Board of Toxicology. He has chaired or served on several National Research Council committees and is a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He completed a combined PhD and veterinary toxicology residency program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University.
Jonathan Abbatt is a chemistry professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Abbatt’s research activities lie broadly in the areas of atmospheric aerosol and multiphase chemistry, using both laboratory and field measurement techniques. His current research interests include the chemistry of polluted atmospheres, the Arctic, wildfires, and indoor chemistry. Dr. Abbatt was a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Data Evaluation Panel for Atmosphere Modeling and was co-chair of the Gordon Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry. He has served on the scientific steering committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project. He was given the Canadian Institute for Chemistry Environmental Research Award, is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship. He received his PhD from Harvard University in atmospheric chemistry.
William P. Bahnfleth is a professor of architectural engineering at Pennsylvania State University. His primary expertise is in building heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems from the perspective of both indoor air quality control and energy efficiency. His research interests include the control of chemical, particulate, and biological indoor air contaminants with ventilation, filtration, and air cleaners. He is a past president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and a fellow of ASHRAE, the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate. He has served previously on the National Research Council’s Committee on Protecting Occupants of Department of Defense Buildings from Chemical and Biological Release and Committee on Safe Buildings Program. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ellison Carter is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. Dr. Carter has expertise in indoor air quality, exposure science, and the residential built environment. She leads field-based assessments of personal, indoor, and outdoor air quality; human behaviors in the home; and health that directly relate to the development and implementation of healthy housing and indoor environmental interventions in diverse domestic and international settings. She earned her PhD in civil engineering, focusing on indoor environmental science and engineering, from the University of Texas at Austin.
Delphine Farmer is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on outdoor atmospheric and indoor chemistry, with an emphasis on understanding the sources and sinks of reactive trace gases and particles and their impacts on climate, ecosystems, and human health. Her recent work has focused on air chemistry in residential environments; Dr. Farmer was a co-lead of the House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry study, and is the co-lead of the Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air indoor study. Dr. Farmer received the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Gillian Gawne-Mittelstaedt is director of the Partnership for Air Matters/Tribal Heathy Homes Network, a consortium that works to prevent exposure to indoor air hazards through training, community-based research, and culturally tailored interventions. Dr. Gawne-Mittelstaedt also leads the Partnership for Air Matters, a nonprofit that provides low-cost indoor air toolkits to engage and empower at-risk families. Her research focuses on developing a more cohesive national risk communication strategy around fine particle air pollution in the indoor environment, driving risk-informed decisions that reduce exposure, inequities, and costs to society. Dr. Gawne-Mittelstaedt currently serves as co-chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Air Act 50th Anniversary workgroup, as an indoor air appointee on EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, as a co-chair of the National Coalition on Safe and Healthy Housing, and formerly chaired the Washington State Asthma Initiative and the Washington Leadership Council for the American Lung Association. Dr. Gawne-Mittlestaedt holds an MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a PhD in public health leadership from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Allen H. Goldstein is the MacArthur Foundation Chair and distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, Dr. Goldstein is associate dean for academic affairs in the Rausser College of Natural Resources. Dr. Goldstein’s research program focuses on anthropogenic air pollution, biosphere-atmosphere exchange of radiatively and chemically active trace gases, and the development and application of novel instrumentation to investigate the organic chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere. Additionally, he engages in field measurement campaigns; controlled laboratory experiments; and modeling activities covering indoor, urban, rural, regional, intercontinental, and global scale studies of aerosols and their gas-phase precursors. Dr. Goldstein previously served as co-chair of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry program. He previously served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research. Dr. Goldstein received his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University.
Vicki H. Grassian is chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Additionally, she is a distinguished professor with appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanoengineering, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and is the Distinguished Chair of Physical Chemistry within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Dr. Grassian’s group focuses on environmental interfaces as they relate to atmospheric aerosols, engineered and geochemical nanoparticles, and indoor surfaces. Dr. Grassian currently leads the SURFace Consortium for the Chemistry of the Indoor Environment Program. She is a recipient of the American Chemical Society National Award in Surface Chemistry and received the William H. Nichols Medal Award for her contributions to the chemistry of environmental interfaces. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Research funding is provided by P&G, and Dr. Grassian is an unpaid member of the P&G Global Hygiene Scientific Advisory Board.
Rima Habre is an associate professor of environmental health and spatial sciences at the University of Southern California (USC). She leads the Exposure Sciences Research Program in the USC National Institute of Environmental Health P30 Center. Her expertise lies in environmental health, air pollution, and exposure sciences. Her research aims to understand the effects of complex air pollution mixtures in the indoor and outdoor environment on the health of vulnerable populations across the life course. Dr. Habre’s expertise spans measurement, spatiotemporal and geographic information system–based modeling, and mobile health approaches to assessing personal exposures and health risk. She co-chairs the Geospatial Working Group in the nationwide National Institute of Health’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program. Dr. Habre received her ScD in environmental health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Glenn Morrison is a professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research is related to the chemistry and physics of indoor air pollution and its influence on human exposure to contaminants. He has a particular interest in interfacial chemistry, ozone-surface chemistry, acid-base chemistry, methamphetamine contamination in buildings, and the interactions of chemicals with occupant surfaces, including skin. His group has studied how chemicals can be transported by fine particles indoors and has measured reactive oxygen species in homes. In recent years, he has focused on how clothing influences indoor chemistry and occupant exposure to chemicals. He is a fellow of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate and has served on the board and as the president from 2014 to 2016. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jordan Peccia is the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering at Yale University. His research integrates genetics with engineering to study human exposure to microbes in buildings. Dr. Peccia is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and is an associate editor for the journal Indoor Air. Previously, Dr. Peccia served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s study on Microbiomes of the Built Environment. He earned his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Colorado.
Dustin Poppendieck is an environmental engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Poppendieck has a unique perspective on how building materials, building envelopes, dynamic infiltration, varied scheduled mechanical ventilation, low energy building designs, and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system operation can interact and impact indoor chemistry. Dr. Poppendieck’s research involves characterizing primary emission sources and heterogeneous reactions at material surfaces. He has investigated emissions from kerosene can lamps,
spray polyurethane foam, and non-smoldering cigarette butts. Additionally, Dr. Poppendieck has studied the disinfection of biologically contaminated building materials (i.e., anthrax) using high concentrations of ozone, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen peroxide, and methyl bromide. He received his PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Kimberly A. Prather holds a joint appointment as a professor in chemistry and biochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Prather is involved in aerosol source apportionment studies, and her group is working to better understand the impact of specific aerosol sources on health and climate. Dr. Prather was formerly a member of the Fine Particle Monitoring Subcommittee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. She is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Aerosol Science and Technology. Dr. Prather is also a member of many professional societies including the American Association for Aerosol Research, the American Chemical Society, and the American Geophysical Union. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Prather received her PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Davis.
Manabu Shiraiwa is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He serves as the principal investigator of the Modelling Consortium for Chemistry of Indoor Environments (MOCCIE). MOCCIE connects models over a range of spatial and temporal scales with an ultimate aim to develop integrated physical-chemical models that include a realistic representation of gas-phase, aerosol-phase, and surface chemistry and how occupants, indoor activities, and buildings influence indoor processes. Dr. Shiraiwa has received numerous awards, including the Kenneth T. Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research, Paul J. Crutzen Award from the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution, Walter A. Rosenblith Award from the Health Effects Institute, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research, Paul Crutzen Prize from the German Chemical Society, and Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society. He received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.
Heather M. Stapleton is the Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Distinguished Professor in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Stapleton’s research focuses on understanding the fate and transformation of organic contaminants in aquatic systems and in indoor environments. Her main focus has been on the bioaccumulation and biotransformation of brominated flame retardants, and specifically polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Her current research projects explore the routes of human exposure to flame retardant chemicals and examine the way these compounds are photodegraded and metabolized using mass spectrometry to identify breakdown products/metabolites. She uses both in vivo techniques with fish and in vitro techniques with cell cultures to examine metabolism of this varied class of chemicals. Dr. Stapleton earned her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Meredith Williams was appointed director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019. She joined DTSC in 2013 as deputy director of the department’s Safer Consumer Products Program to lead the implementation of California’s groundbreaking effort to reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products. She received her PhD in physics from North Carolina State University in 1994 and a BA from Yale University in 1984. She was a speaker and panelist for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee for Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions’ 2017 Workshop on Understanding Pathways to a Paradigm Shift in Toxicity Testing and Decision Making. And in 2019, she participated in the Environmental Health Matters Initiative’s workshop on Understanding, Controlling, and Preventing Exposure to PFAS.
