N. Cazimir Armstrong

Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Gillings School of Global Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431
E-mail: ceph3@live.unc.edu

Education

PhD Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Fall 2020 – present)
Research interests: atmospheric sulfate conversion by isoprene-derived secondary organic aerosol (SOA), synthetic and analytical organic chemistry, heterogeneous OH radical oxidation of SOA

MS in Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2020)
Thesis: Highly Oxidized Compounds from Heterogeneous Oxidation of Isoprene Epoxydiol (IEPOX)-Derived Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Identified using Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography interfaced to Electrospray Ionization High-Resolution Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (HILIC/ESI-HR-QTOFMS)

BS in User-Focused Design Engineering, Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA (2018)

Professional Experience

Graduate research assistant (August 2018 – present)
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Undergraduate research assistant (January 2017 – May 2018)
Hersey research group, Olin College of Engineering

Awards

Olin Merit Scholarship (2014-2018)
Dan Okun Scholarship (2018-2019)
Gillings Merit Scholarship (2018-2019)
Annual Fund Scholarship (2018-2019)
Royster Fellowship (2020-2025)