Associate Professor
Elliott Gall is an associate professor at Portland State in the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
Current research areas include characterizing indoor sources of organic compounds, developing mitigation methods for reducing air pollution exposures during and after wildfires and evaluation of air cleaning technologies.
Gall’s research has been supported by federal, state, and local agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. EPA, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ASHRAE and the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal publications on indoor and urban air pollution.
Gall is an active member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), serving as the Conference Vice President and Technical Program Director for Indoor Air 2024. ISIAQ also acknowledged him with the 2018 Yaglou Award for his work on indoor ozone chemistry. He is also the author of the Air Quality chapter of the 6th quadrennial National Climate Assessment with the United States Global Change Research Program.
His research at Portland State has been featured in national and local media, including National Public Radio, The Atlantic, PBS, National Geographic and the Guardian.
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