Dr. Zare Harofteh is an Assistant Research Professor at Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute. Her research spans fundamental and applied topics, including wildfire smoke transport and the evolution of plume chemical composition, fire process modeling, environmental justice in terms of air pollution exposure, and development of hyperlocal air quality prediction modeling platforms. Dr. Zare Harofteh is an expert in atmospheric modeling – in domains such as weather (e.g., WRF), emission (e.g., MEGAN), chemical transport (e.g., CMAQ, WRF-Chem, CAMx), and fire processes (e.g., WRF-SFIRE) modeling. She also employs machine learning techniques for air quality and fire process prediction. Her past experience contributes to understanding the interactions between biogenic emissions, air quality, and climate change. She has developed, evaluated, and integrated gas- and aerosol-phase chemical mechanisms (e.g., RACM2_Berkeley) into chemical transport models, which have been utilized in research endeavors, including assessing the impact of ongoing emission reduction policies on atmospheric chemistry.

Dr. Zare Harofteh also holds a faculty appointment at the Atmospheric Science Graduate program, University of Nevada, Reno, where she will contribute to teaching courses and mentoring students.

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