Albert Presto

Albert Presto is a research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and the director of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS). He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Chemical Engineering. His research lies at the nexus of energy, the environment, and human health. Research in his group focuses on human exposures to air pollution, how those exposures impact people’s health, and how exposures will change with future changes to public policy and the energy mix both in the U.S. and globally. He has specific expertise in mobile sampling to understand spatial patterns in urban air pollution, quantification of emissions of methane and air pollutants from the oil and gas industry, and the development and deployment of low-cost air pollutant sensors and techniques.

Dr. Presto is an editor for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. He is a founding member of AfriqAir, a Research Fellow of the Kigali Collaborative Research Centre, and the U.S. State Department Air Quality Fellow for Burundi and Guinea.