AAAR 37th Annual Conference October 14 - October 18, 2019 Oregon Convention Center Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jenna Ditto, PhD Student, Postdoctoral Fellowship
JENNA DITTO, Yale University
Abstract Number: 373 Working Group: Meet the Job Seekers
Abstract The focus of my doctoral research has been on characterizing the evolution of complex functionalized mixtures of organic compounds. I am interested in leveraging high resolution mass spectrometry to accomplish this at the molecular level; using offline sampling and a combination of gas and liquid chromatography with high resolution mass spectrometry, I am currently investigating key elemental and structural features of aged organic compounds in the atmosphere. A particular emphasis of my current research is the characterization of functionalized organic compounds from mixed biogenic and anthropogenic sources (including nitrogen- and sulfur-containing species) across the volatility spectrum—something that I hope to pursue after graduate school as well. Moving beyond my PhD, I aim to continue to probe the evolution of multiphase organic mixtures at the molecular level, but seek to broaden my skills and gain experience with a wider range of online mass spectrometry techniques. Ultimately, I am interested in learning more about how to distill and synergize the strengths of high chemical resolution measurements with high time resolution measurements for improved atmospheric chemistry modeling. I seek a postdoctoral fellowship—I anticipate graduating in the summer of 2020, and will be available to begin a new position in late summer or early fall of 2020.