Technical Leader (Retired)
Ford Motor Company
Matti Maricq is retired from Ford Motor Company. He was a Technical Leader in the Chemical Engineering Department at Ford's Research and Innovation Center, where he was head of the Vehicle Emissions Research Laboratory, a state of the art chassis dynamometer facility for vehicle exhaust measurements.
Matti received a B.S. degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He subsequently pursued post-doctoral research at the University of Colorado and Oxford University, before joining the chemistry faculty at Brown University. In 1989 Matti joined Ford's Scientific Research Laboratory to work on atmospheric chemistry problems related to the ozone hole and its implications on automotive air conditioning systems. As concerns grew in the 1990's over potential particulate matter health effects, his research shifted towards developing new approaches to sample, measure, and characterize PM from motor vehicles. He has over 30 years of experience in the areas of spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, emissions measurement, and aerosols, including 2 US patents and over 150 peer reviewed publications. He was an editor for Aerosol Science and Technology and is an Society of Automotive Engineering Fellow.