Akua Asa-Awuku
Akua Asa-Awuku
Akua Asa-Awuku is an associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland in Maryland, USA. [1] Her primary research interest is in cloud formation, and its affects on global climate change and health.
Education
In 2003, Akua Asa-Awuku received her Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) in Chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then went on to earn her Master's degree (M. Sc.) in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) in 2006, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemical engineering in 2008. In 2008, after completing her Ph.D. at GIT, Dr. Asa-Awuku also served as a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Career and Research
Dr. Asa-Awuku is most well known for her work in trying to understand the impact that particle emissions (such as black carbon) have on cloud formation.
She is the first in her field to study the parallels between cloud formation in the atmosphere and air formation and composition in human lungs.