Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz

Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and spent the 2023-24 academic year living in Ecuador with his family as a Fulbright Scholar. His research focus on organic compounds in the air - how they are emitted, how they transform, and their health and ecosystem impacts. He is particularly interested in developing new ways to measure and analyze hazardous air pollutants. He has been recognized as a Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean’s Fellow and Faculty Fellow and has received early career awards from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, after which he spent two years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He is originally from the East Coast, growing up in Maryland and completing his undergraduate at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.