Nga Lee Ng is the Love Family Professor[1] at the Georgia Institute of Technology, holding appointments in both the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.[2][3] Her research focuses on atmospheric chemistry, particularly in the study of organic aerosols and their effects on air quality, climate, and human health.[4][5][6][7]

Nga Lee Ng
Alma materHong Kong University of Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology
Known forOrganic Aerosols, Air Quality, Climate Change
AwardsAmerican Geophysical Union Ascent Award
AAAR Kenneth T. Whitby Award
NSF CAREER Award
Scientific career
FieldsAtmospheric Chemistry
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorsJohn H. Seinfeld, Richard C. Flagan

Education and early career

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Ng earned her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2002.[8] She was an exchange student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota[7] from 2000 to 2001. She then pursued her graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, where she completed her M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2004 and her Ph.D. in 2007 under the supervision of John H. Seinfeld and Richard C. Flagan.[9]

Following her Ph.D., Ng worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (2007-2008) and then as a postdoctoral scientist at Aerodyne Research (2008-2010). She continued at Aerodyne Research as a senior scientist from 2010 to 2011.[10]

Research and career

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Ng joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2011.[1] Her research focuses on the chemistry of atmospheric aerosols, including their formation, transformation, and impacts.[2][7][11] Her work has provided insights into the role of organic aerosols in air quality and climate change.[12] She employs advanced analytical techniques and modeling approaches to study the sources, processes, and effects of particulate matter and other air pollutants.[3] She was the lead principal investigator on a $12M National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded in 2021 to establish the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT), which aims to collect real-time measurements of atmospheric particulates' chemical composition and properties at 12 different sites around the United States.[13][14] She received a Love Family endowed professorship at Georgia Tech in 2022.[1]

Ng has held several editorial positions, including Editor-in-Chief of ACS Environmental Science & Technology Air since 2023,[4][15] and she has served on the ACS Earth and Space Chemistry[16] and Scientific Reports[17] editorial boards.

Selected publications

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  • Ng, N. L.; Kroll, J. H.; Chan, A. W. H.; Chhabra, P. S.; Flagan, R. C.; Seinfeld, J. H. (July 24, 2007). "Secondary organic aerosol formation from m-xylene, toluene, and benzene". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 7 (14): 3909–3922. Bibcode:2007ACP.....7.3909N. doi:10.5194/acp-7-3909-2007. ISSN 1680-7324.
  • Ng, N. L.; Canagaratna, M. R.; Zhang, Q.; Jimenez, J. L.; Tian, J.; Ulbrich, I. M.; Kroll, J. H.; Docherty, K. S.; Chhabra, P. S.; Bahreini, R.; Murphy, S. M.; Seinfeld, J. H.; Hildebrandt, L.; Donahue, N. M.; DeCarlo, P. F.; Lanz, V. A.; Prévôt, A. S. H.; Dinar, E.; Rudich, Y.; Worsnop, D. R. (May 20, 2010). "Organic aerosol components observed in Northern Hemispheric datasets from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 10 (10): 4625–4641. Bibcode:2010ACP....10.4625N. doi:10.5194/acp-10-4625-2010. ISSN 1680-7324.
  • Ng, N. L.; Herndon, S. C.; Trimborn, A.; Canagaratna, M. R.; Croteau, P. L.; Onasch, T. B.; Sueper, D.; Worsnop, D. R.; Zhang, Q.; Sun, Y. L.; Jayne, J. T. (2011). "An Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) for Routine Monitoring of the Composition and Mass Concentrations of Ambient Aerosol". Aerosol Science and Technology. 45 (7): 780–794. Bibcode:2011AerST..45..780N. doi:10.1080/02786826.2011.560211. ISSN 0278-6826.
  • Liu, Fobang; Ng, Nga Lee (June 6, 2023). Toxicity of Atmospheric Aerosols: Methodologies & Assays. Washington, DC, USA: American Chemical Society. doi:10.1021/acsinfocus.7e7012. ISBN 978-0-8412-9981-8.
  • Eftekhari, Azin; Won, Youngbo; Morrison, Glenn; Ng, Nga Lee (June 28, 2023). Chemistry of Indoor Air Pollution. Washington, DC, USA: American Chemical Society. doi:10.1021/acsinfocus.7e7018. ISBN 978-0-8412-9983-2.

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Nga Lee "Sally" Ng and Corey Wilson Awarded Love Family Professorships". chbe.gatech.edu. Georgia Tech. August 15, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Nga Lee (Sally) Ng". www.chbe.gatech.edu. Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Ng Research Group". ng.chbe.gatech.edu. Georgia Tech. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Meet Nga Lee (Sally) Ng, Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ACS ES&T Air". ACS Axial. 26 July 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  5. ^ "Pandemic's Cleaner Air Could Reshape What We Know About the Atmosphere". The New York Times. June 25, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  6. ^ "Properly fitted multilayer masks can reduce particle transmission: Study". Business Standard. April 3, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  7. ^ a b c "Sharing the joy of science through academia and aerosols". research.noaa.gov. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. March 29, 2021.
  8. ^ "Atmospheric Scientist Alumna Advances Sustainability Through Leading-Edge Air Quality Research". HKUST School of Engineering. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  9. ^ Ng, Nga Lee (2007). Chamber studies of secondary organic aerosol formation (PhD thesis). California Institute of Technology. OCLC 437163413.
  10. ^ "Nga Lee Ng CV" (PDF). www.agu.org. American Geophysical Union. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  11. ^ "Professor Sally Ng Monitoring Air Quality in Georgia Tech Classrooms". www.chbe.gatech.edu. Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. September 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  12. ^ "Nga Lee Sally Ng - Google Scholar Profile". Google Scholar. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  13. ^ "Award Abstract # 2131914 | Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT)". www.nsf.gov. National Science Foundation. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
  14. ^ Georgia Institute of Technology (October 8, 2021). "Georgia Tech researcher earns $12 million NSF grant to establish atmospheric measurement network". www.eurekalert.org. EurekAlert! | AAAS.
  15. ^ "Editors & Editorial Board | Editor-in-Chief". pubs.acs.org. ACS Environmental Science & Technology Air. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  16. ^ "Editors & Editorial Board | Editorial Advisory Board". pubs.acs.org. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  17. ^ "Scientific Reports | Editors". www.nature.com. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  18. ^ "Sheldon K. Friedlander Award | List of Recipients". www.aaar.org. American Association for Aerosol Research. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  19. ^ a b "Whitby Award HEI Rosenblith Investigator Sally Ng". Health Effects Institute. 8 November 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  20. ^ "CAREER: Integrated Laboratory and Field Studies of Organic Nitrates from BVOC + NO3: Formation, Processing, and Fates (Award Abstract # 1555034)". www.nsf.gov. National Science Foundation. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  21. ^ "Kenneth T. Whitby Award | List of Recipients". www.aaar.org. American Association for Aerosol Research. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  22. ^ "Sally Ng | Honors & Awards". www.agu.org. American Geophysical Union. Retrieved July 18, 2024.