PAOC Spotlights

A chance to catch up with recent comings and going in EAPS.

Besides new incoming faculty professors Lauren Demanet and Brent Minchew, EAPS warmly welcomes research scientist Muge Komurcu, postdoc Simone Moos and visitors Albion Lawrence (Ferrari Group) and Jun Wang (joining the Morgan Group) .

Muge Komurcu is an atmospheric physicist specializing in aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions and mixed-phase cloud microphysics. She utilizes her expertise in modeling to study changes in regional climate and extreme event. She joins EAPS as a research scientist working with Adam Schlosser. Before coming to MIT she worked as a research scientist in the Earth Systems Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. She holds a 2011 PhD from the Department of Meteorology, Penn State University (advised by Jerry Y. Harrington,) after which she spent two years at Yale University doing postdoctoral research looking at cloud-aerosol Interactions in GCMs with advisor Trude Storelvmo.

Simone Moos PhD '17 rejoins the Boyle Group as a postdoc having successfully defended her doctoral thesis The Marine Biogeochemistry of Chromium Isotopes in September 2017. Moos is generally interested in the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals and their isotopes in the ocean. Currently she studies chromium isotopes and their fractionation between redox states using single-collector and multi-collector ICP-MS. Previous work focused on the redox speciation of chromium in the tropical Atlantic Ocean using a voltammetric method. She is affiliated with C-more (the Center for Microbial Oceanography) an NSF-sponsored Science and Technology Center designed to "facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the diverse assemblages of microorganisms in the sea, ranging from the genetic basis of marine microbial biogeochemistry including the metabolic regulation and environmental controls of gene expression, to the processes that underpin the fluxes of carbon, related bioelements and energy in the marine environment." The Center’s activities are dispersed among five partner institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, University of California at Santa Cruz and, Oregon State University and are coordinated at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

Researchers and Staff who left Nov/Dec 2017:
Frances Goldstein
Patrick Heimbach
Margaret Lankow
William Rodi

Postdocs who left Nov/Dec 2017:
Amy Dale (Solomon Group)
William Frank (Prieto Group)
Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro (Marshall Group)
Michael Roesch (Cziczo Lab)
Farrokh Sheibani (Hager Lab)
Jordan Steckloff (Soderblom Group)

Visiting Scientists who left Nov/Dec 2017:
Zhang “Jack” He (Herring Group)
Nicholas Scroxton (McGee Group)