Staff Scientist
Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER)
Benjamin Brown-Steiner, PhD, is a Staff Scientist at Atmospheric and Environemental Engineering (AER). Dr. Brown-Steiner’s research includes atmospheric chemistry, climate science, and emissions modeling with a focus on uncertainty quantification, model and component complexity, and the impact of internal spatial and temporal variability on signal detection capabilities. He has diagnosed structural uncertainties within global climate-chemistry models pertaining to selection of model components, chemical mechanisms, emissions, and climate scenarios, and has utilized different modeling frameworks, and different parameter sets within individual models to analyze, quantify, and aid in the selection of chemical mechanism and model configurations that are both capable of representing tropospheric chemistry and computationally efficient. He is currently is working on the development of a furan troposheric oxidation mechanism in both a complex and reduced form and is applying supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to tropospheric chemistry applications.