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Frank Drewnick is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily focuses on atmospheric science, with research contributions spanning global and planetary change, health toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, and automotive engineering.

The main topics of Drewnick's research include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Infection control and ventilation
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Drewnick has contributed to scientific knowledge in various publication venues, most notably:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Aerosol Science and Technology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Drewnick include Stephan Borrmann, Jos Lelieveld, Friederike Fachinger, Ivan Tadić, and John N. Crowley.

Drewnick's research output includes several papers that address topics related to aerosols, infection risk, and air quality. Examples of recent publications are:

  • Aerosol filtration efficiency of household materials for homemade face masks: Influence of material properties, particle size, particle electrical charge, face velocity, and leaks (2020), Aerosol Science and Technology
  • Model Calculations of Aerosol Transmission and Infection Risk of COVID-19 in Indoor Environments (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Influence of vessel characteristics and atmospheric processes on the gas and particle phase of ship emission plumes: in situ measurements in the Mediterranean Sea and around the Arabian Peninsula (2020), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources (2022), Communications Earth & Environment
  • Aerosol transmission of COVID-19 and infection risk in indoor environments (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • Ubiquity and dominance of oxygenated species in organic aerosols in anthropogenically-influenced Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes

    Q. Zhang;Jose L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;J. D. Allan

  • Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer

    M. R. Canagaratna;J. T. Jayne;J. L. Jimenez;J. D. Allan

  • Size Matters More Than Chemistry for Cloud-Nucleating Ability of Aerosol Particles

    Ulrike Dusek;Göran Frank;Lea Hildebrandt;Lea Hildebrandt;Joachim Curtius

  • A New Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (TOF-AMS)—Instrument Description and First Field Deployment

    Frank Drewnick;Silke S. Hings;Peter DeCarlo;John T. Jayne

  • A generalised method for the extraction of chemically resolved mass spectra from aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer data

    James D Allan;Alice E Delia;Hugh Coe;Keith N Bower

  • Chase Studies of Particulate Emissions from in-use New York City Vehicles

    Manjula R. Canagaratna;John T. Jayne;David A. Ghertner;Scott Herndon

  • Wintertime aerosol chemical composition and source apportionment of the organic fraction in the metropolitan area of Paris

    M. Crippa;P. F. Decarlo;P. F. Decarlo;J. G. Slowik;C. Mohr;C. Mohr

  • Particle Loss Calculator – a new software tool for the assessment of the performance of aerosol inlet systems

    S.-L. von der Weiden;F. Drewnick;S. Borrmann

  • Mass spectrometric analysis and aerodynamic properties of various types of combustion-related aerosol particles

    J. Schneider;S. Weimer;F. Drewnick;S. Borrmann

  • Measurement of fine particulate and gas-phase species during the New Year's fireworks 2005 in Mainz, Germany

    Frank Drewnick;Silke S. Hings;Joachim Curtius;Gunter Eerdekens

  • Design, Modeling, Optimization, and Experimental Tests of a Particle Beam Width Probe for the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    J. Alex Huffman;John T. Jayne;Frank Drewnick;Allison C. Aiken

  • Characterization of the South Atlantic marine boundary layer aerosol using an aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer

    S. R. Zorn;F. Drewnick;M. Schott;T. Hoffmann

  • Quantification of the unknown HONO daytime source and its relation to NO 2

    M. Sörgel;E. Regelin;H. Bozem;J.-M. Diesch

  • Aerosol filtration efficiency of household materials for homemade face masks: Influence of material properties, particle size, particle electrical charge, face velocity, and leaks

    Frank Drewnick;Julia Pikmann;Friederike Fachinger;Lasse Moormann

  • Model Calculations of Aerosol Transmission and Infection Risk of COVID-19 in Indoor Environments.

    Jos Lelieveld;Jos Lelieveld;Frank Helleis;Stephan Borrmann;Yafang Cheng

  • Enhanced organic mass fraction and decreased hygroscopicity of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) during new particle formation events

    Ulrike Dusek;Göran Frank;J. Curtius;J. Curtius;F. Drewnick

  • Chemical composition of ambient aerosol, ice residues and cloud droplet residues in mixed-phase clouds: single particle analysis during the Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment (CLACE 6)

    Michael Kamphus;Michael Kamphus;Matthias Ettner-Mahl;Thomas Klimach;Frank Drewnick

  • Measurement of Ambient Aerosol Composition during the PMTACS-NY 2001 using an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer. Part I: Mass Concentrations

    Frank Drewnick;James J. Schwab;John T. Jayne;Manjula Canagaratna

  • Sources of fine particle composition in New York city

    Zheng Li;Philip K. Hopke;Liaquat Husain;Sumizah Qureshi

  • Technical note A generalised method for the extraction of chemically resolved mass spectra from Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer data

    James D. Allan;Alice E. Delia;Hugh Coe;Keith N. Bower

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Borrmann
Stephan Borrmann Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Jos Lelieveld
Jos Lelieveld Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams Max Planck Society
Kenneth L. Demerjian
Kenneth L. Demerjian University at Albany, State University of New York
Douglas R. Worsnop
Douglas R. Worsnop University of Helsinki
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Matthias Beekmann
Matthias Beekmann Paris-Est Créteil University
John N. Crowley
John N. Crowley Max Planck Society
James Allan
James Allan University of Manchester

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