Lucas Rojas Mendoza is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He holds a Master’s in Mining Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor’s in Mining and Metallurgy from the National University of Colombia. Before starting his Ph.D., he spent six years working in the mining sector in technical and consulting roles. At Berkeley, he is part of Professor Apte’s group, which studies human exposure to air pollution in the built environment. Lucas’s current research focuses on developing reduced-complexity air quality models for India and California to help identify effective, region- and sector-specific policy interventions. In his free time, he enjoys running and learning new languages.
Lucas Rojas Mendoza
