Peter H. McMurry
Dr. Peter McMurry is a Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His areas of expertise and research activities and interests include: aerosol dynamics, gas-particle interactions, atmospheric aerosols (gas to particle conversion, measurement, atmospheric processing, visibility impairment, etc.), ultrafine aerosol studies, nucleation phenomena, aerosol sampling for chemical analysis, measurement of aerosol physical/chemical properties, establishing experimentally-verified models for aerosol nucleation, growth, and transport in systems of practical importance. He is presently involved with the Atlanta and St. Louis Supersite programs.
Dr. McMurry earned a B. A. in Physics, cum laude, in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania; and an M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977, Physics minor) in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the California Institute of Technology. He served as President of the American Association for Aerosol Research from 1994 to 1995, among many other leadership roles. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. McMurry served on the Technical Subcommittee on Fine Particle Monitoring of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). In addition, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Committees for the Southern California Particulate Matter Center (2000-present); the University of Rochester Particulate Matter Center (2001-present); and the University of Helsinki, Centre of Excellence (2001-present).