David Sommerfeld

David A. Sommerfeld (BS – Chemistry from University of Minnesota (1988); Ph.D. – Physical Chemistry from University of Utah (1995))

Since 2014, Professor Sommerfeld has been a Senior Lecturer at The University of Washington Bothell where his principle duties focus on the physical chemistry curriculum. He taught for 10 years at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst as the Director of Undergraduate Upper Division Labs where he learned much of his analytical chemistry by doing analytical chemistry. Throughout his career he has had an interest in environmental chemistry. His post-doc experience was at UC – Irvine in the Rowland research group where investigated the origin of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide. While at Lamar University he mentored students who used pine needles as passive collectors for polychlorinated biphenyls to study the distribution of these environmental contaminants in the East Texas Piney Woods. And he helped establish a water quality monitoring program for the Lake Greenwood reservoir with students at Lander University.

December 2016