Meet the Team

The Clean Air Toolbox core team consists of researchers from six divisions across Columbia University (Engineering, International and Public Affairs, Law, Public Health, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Climate School), the Data Science Institute, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

V. Faye McNeill(opens in new tab)

Co-lead, India

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, Earth Institute Faculty

Daniel Westervelt(opens in new tab)

Co-lead, Africa

Associate Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Affiliate Faculty, Data Science Institute

Steven Chillrud(opens in new tab)

Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Darby Jack

Associate Professor, CUMC Environmental Health Sciences

Jacqueline Klopp

Research Scholar and Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School

Beizhan Yan(opens in new tab)

Lamont Research Professor, Geochemistry

Sathish Swaminathan(opens in new tab)

Postdoctoral Scholar
Clean Air Toolbox
Columbia Climate School

Kiros Berhane(opens in new tab)

Cynthia and Robert Citron-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor and Chair, Biostatistics, CUMC Mailman School of Public Health

Michael Burger(opens in new tab)

Executive Director, Sabin Center

Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School

Roisin Commane

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Pam Factor-Litvak

Professor of Epidemiology

Michael Gerrard

Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School, Faculty Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Jonathan Hickman

Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Robbie Parks(opens in new tab)

Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Venkat Venkatasubramanian(opens in new tab)

Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor, Chemical Engineering, Founder, gyandata, Director, Complex Resilient Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CRIS Lab)