Greg Drozd

Greg received his B.S. in Chemistry from The Ohio State University in 2005 and PhD in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. He held post-doctoral research positions in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California at Berkeley and was a visiting scholar in the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty at Colby in 2017, teaching physical chemistry. As an atmospheric chemist, he has studied alkene ozonolysis, vehicle emissions, aircraft emissions, oil-spill emissions, and aerosol chemistry. His current research will continue to focus on unimolecular reaction dynamics of ozonolysis reaction intermediates and emissions from complex hydrocarbon mixtures. New research will focus on microscopy of aqueous aerosol to understand the fundamental effects of extremely concentrated conditions on aerosol chemistry using confocal Raman microscopy. The major contributions of this research will be improved understanding of health and climate impacts of emissions from evaporative sources, atmospheric ozonolysis reactions, and aerosol phase chemistry.