Heather Holmes Pronouns: she/her
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Engineering
Office: MEB 2294
Phone: (801) 581-3248
Email: h.holmes@utah.edu
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Melbourne, 2023
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, 2014-2020
Postdoc, Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-2013
Postdoc, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, 2010-2011
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 2010
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 2007
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Montana State University, 2001
MS, Material Science and Engineering, University of Utah, 2021
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, 2012
• Dispersion modeling (HYSPLIT)
• Python programming
Sam Faulstich Pronouns: they/them
Title: PhD Student
Dept: Chemical Engineering
Email: sam.faulstich@utah.edu
BS, Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, 2018
BS, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 2018
• Wildfire emissions inventories
• Dispersion Modeling (HYSPLIT)
• Bayesian statistics
• R programming & GIS
Sishir Dahal Title: PhD Student
Dept: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Email: sishir.dahal@utah.edu
BE, Civil Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 2015
• Satellite Remote Sensing
• Numerical Weather Prediction (WRF)
• Dispersion Modeling (HYSPLIT)
• Python programming
BS, Chemical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, 2020
• Atmospheric Turbulence
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Numerical Weather Prediction (WRF)
• Python programming
Former Group Members
Graduate Students and Postdocs
Taylor (Kai) Wilmot , Postdoc December 2023-May 2025 (CTO at Trace AQ )
Jingting Huang, PhD Chemical Engineering May 2024 (Postdoc at the University of Georgia)
Jacob Boomsma, MS Atmospheric Sciences May 2024 (Meteorologist at National Weather Service)
Kaiyu Chen, Postdoc February 2021-November 2023 (Air Quality Analyst at Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA))
Sean Colgan, MS Atmospheric Sciences May 2020 (Meteorologist at U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command)
Xia Sun, PhD Atmospheric Sciences May 2019, Postdoc May-December 2019 (Research Scientist at CIRES NOAA Global Systems Laboratory)
S. Marcela Loría-Salazar, PhD Atmospheric Sciences August 2019 (Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma)
Cesunica Ivey, Postdoc August 2016-December 2017 (Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley)
Olabosipo Osibanjo, MS Atmospheric Sciences August 2016 (PhD student at University of Houston)
Undergraduate Students
Kyler Pak , BS/MS Chemical Engineering, Undergraduate Wilkes Scholars Program Advisor, 2024-2025
Klara Kjome Fischer, BA Geology Carleton College, NSF REALM REU Summer 2024
Tobias Armstrong, BS Data Science, Undergraduate Wilkes Scholars Program Advisor 2024-2025
Talon Townsend, BS Chemical Engineering, Undergraduate Wilkes Scholars Program Advisor 2024
Andrew Ledwith , BS Chemical Engineering May 2025
Maxim Balitskiy , BS Chemical Engineering May 2025
Todd Clark , BS Chemical Engineering May 2025 (Working at J.R. Simplot Company)
Colton Coon , BS Chemical Engineering May 2022 (Working at Northrop Grumman)
Ohidul Mojumder, BS Physics May 2020
James Long, BA Psychology May 2019
John Mendelsohn, BS Physics May 2018 (Working at Elemental LED)
G. Aaron Alexander, BS Physics and Atmospheric Sciences May 2017 (PhD student at University of California, Davis)
Haley Jung, BS Physics May 2016 (Working at ALS Tribology)
Danielle Medgyesi, BS Community Health Sciences May 2015 (PhD student at Columbia University )
Jordan Parks, Undergraduate Atmospheric Sciences
Addison Liming, Undergraduate Physics and Atmospheric Sciences