Andreas Karpf

Andreas Karpf is the laboratory manager for the Civil & Urban Engineering Department as well as the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He works closely with graduate research groups and principal investigators and provides technical support to enable state-of-the-art research and laboratory operations. He is an experimental physicist who earned his Ph.D. in Physics at NYU and has experience in applied optics, spectroscopy, photonics, remote sensing, and pollution analysis. His work has focused on developing new spectroscopic techniques to detect trace contaminants in ambient air, contaminants on solid surfaces, as well as structural defects. His experience extends beyond research and includes designing and constructing prototype apparatus for field use, designing research laboratories, creating instructional lab experiments, as well as software development.