Mingyi Wang, Ph.D.

Mingyi Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on aerosol particle formation and its impact on air quality and climate change, providing novel approaches to (a) constrain the oxidative chemistry of emerging pollutants, (b) resolve aerosol microphysical processes, and (c) develop aerosol dynamics models with experimental and meteorological inputs. Before joining the University of Chicago, he was a Schmidt Science Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, where he worked on aerosol microphysics in the upper atmosphere using aircraft measurements. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied the chemical mechanisms that drive particle formation in various environments. His research was recognized with the Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research.