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Pawel K. Misztal is currently an associate professor in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research group focuses on discoveries related to time-resolved measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their impacts on air quality and chemical interactions with the human environment. Previously, Misztal served as an associate specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, including research on ground-based direct VOC fluxes in tropical oil palm plantations and rainforest ecosystems in Borneo. Additionally, he has developed methodologies for enhanced detection of structural isomers using proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry. Misztal has been responsible for planning, executing, and processing the CABERNET airborne VOC flux campaign, demonstrating significant improvements in biogenic emission models to accurately simulate emissions in California. He is actively involved in the global chemistry community, working to discover new compound families stressed by plants and understanding the underlying processes and atmospheric fates of biogenic VOCs. Misztal collaborates with microbiologists at UC Berkeley to understand the controls on microbial VOC emission rates from environmental bacteria and fungi.
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