Appendix B
Committee Biographical Sketches
David T. Allen (Chair), NAE, is the Melvin H. Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include urban air quality, the engineering of sustainable systems, and the development of materials for environmental and engineering education. Dr. Allen has been a lead investigator for multiple air quality measurement studies, which have had a substantial impact on the direction of air quality policies. Dr. Allen directs the Air Quality Research Program for the State of Texas, and he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. He has served on a variety of governmental advisory panels and chaired the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Allen was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 and has chaired several National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees. Dr. Allen received his PhD in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Olorunfemi Adetona is an assistant professor in the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on occupational and household exposures to combustion-derived air pollution, including epidemiology- and laboratory-based studies to characterize the exposures of wildland firefighting and the respiratory and systemic responses to such exposures. Specifically, studies explore quantitative occupational (biomarker) exposure-response for cancer and acute cardiovascular effects of wildland firefighting. Dr. Adetona also studies potential agents for mitigating adverse health effects caused by particulate air pollution. Dr. Adetona earned his PhD in toxicology from the University of Georgia.
Michelle Bell, NAM, is the Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health at the Yale University School of the Environment, with secondary appointments at the Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, and the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, Environmental Engineering Program. Her research investigates how human health is affected by atmospheric systems, including air pollution and weather. Other research interests include the health impacts of climate change and environmental justice. Dr. Bell has received numerous awards for her work, including the Prince Albert II de Monaco/Institut Pasteur Award, the Rosenblith New Investigator Award, and the NIH Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020. Dr. Bell received her PhD in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Marilyn Black is vice president and senior technical advisor for Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), leading its research group Chemical Insights. Her work focuses on improving product design to reduce chemical exposures in home and shared environments. She is the founder and former chairperson for both UL Air Quality Sciences and the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute. She is also the founder of the Khaos Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of children through education and research. Dr. Black is an active participant in national and international scientific organizational initiatives, research projects, and community outreach programs, and has presented and published over 200 papers on indoor air quality and environmental exposure. She received her PhD in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jefferey L. Burgess is the Associate Dean for Research for the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. His current translational, occupational, and environmental health research primarily focuses on evaluation and prevention of injurious exposures to firefighters and miners. Dr. Burgess has served as principal investigator for federally funded projects focused on cancer prevention in firefighters, including research grants funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). He previously served on the National Academies committee to review the NIOSH Mining Safety and Health Research Program. He received his MD from the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Frederick L. Dryer, NAE, is an Educational Foundation Distinguished Research Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He was previously a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Dryer’s research expertise spans a wide range of areas, including thermodynamics, physical chemistry, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, abatement of unwanted emissions from energy conversion systems, and understanding and mitigating fire hazards associated with the use of gaseous, liquid, and solid materials on earth and in low-gravity environments. He is currently a Fellow of the International Combustion Institute and is a former associate editor and editorial board member of Combustion Science and Technology, as well as a former editorial board member of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics and of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. Dr. Dryer received his PhD in aerospace and mechanical sciences from Princeton University.
Amara Holder is a research mechanical engineer with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development and is the EPA lead on the development of a wildland-urban interface emissions inventory. Her research is on discovering the physical, chemical, and optical properties of combustion-generated particles and understanding the processes that determine these characteristics. Dr. Holder has studied numerous combustion systems including wildland fires, woodstoves, cook stoves, motor vehicles, diesel generators, coal-fired power plants, and crude oil burns. She received her PhD in combustion and environmental health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ana Mascareñas is a consultant with the University of Washington’s Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health. She formerly served as the Assistant Director for Environmental Justice, Deputy Director, and Tribal Liaison for the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). Her work focuses on the intersection of environmental and public health, particularly regarding vulnerable populations and tribal communities in California. Before joining DTSC, she was policy and communications director at Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles. Ms. Mascareñas received her Master of Public Health (MPH) in environmental health sciences from the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Fernando Rosario-Ortiz is a professor and director of the Environmental Engineering Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. His current research focuses on environmental photochemistry, the impact of wildfires on water quality and treatment, and characterization of organic matter in different environments. He has won numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER award for work to identify the impact of effluent organic matter on photochemical processes in surface waters. Dr. Rosario-Ortiz received his doctoral degree in environmental science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Anna Agnieszka Stec is a professor in fire chemistry and toxicity at the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. She was the Scientific Coordinator for the “Toxicological and Environmental Aspects” work package of the European Union Cooperation in Science and Technology Action and the UK representative on its Management Committee. Dr. Stec has extensive experience in identifying and understanding toxic hazards (acute and chronic) in and from fires and their effect on humans and the environment. Dr. Stec was appointed by the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scientific Advisory Group to oversee investigation of soil contamination and adverse health effects following the Grenfell Tower fire. She represents the Society of Chemical Industry with the British Standards Hazard to Life from Fire technical committee. Dr. Stec received her PhD in fire chemistry and toxicity from the University of Bolton, United Kingdom.
Barbara J. Turpin is a professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on use of chemical modeling and field research to improve understanding of linkages between air pollution emissions and human exposures. She has a specific focus on particulate matter and aerosols, and how these are affected by human activities and built environments. Dr. Turpin is a fellow of several professional societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union. In 2018, she received the Creative Advances in Environmental Sciences and Technology Award from the American Chemical Society. Dr. Turpin received her PhD in environmental science and engineering from OGI at Oregon Health and Science University.
Judith T. Zelikoff is a professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Her primary research interests are in the toxicology of inhaled metals and complex mixtures, including air pollution, tobacco products, and diesel emissions. She has also published on the toxicology of woodburning/woodsmoke and written a number of reviews in the same field. Dr. Zelikoff has published over 150 papers and book chapters in the areas of environmental health and toxicology. She has served as a standing member on two National Institutes of Health study sections and actively participates as an ad hoc reviewer for a variety of institutes. In addition, she has served as a member of the National Toxicology Program Advisory Board. Dr. Zelikoff received her PhD in experimental pathology focusing on viral-induced human diseases at Rutgers Medical School.
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