January 5, 2009
Richard Corsi, a civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the Otto Monsted Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The award will allow him to visit the university numerous times over a three-year period, as well as the opportunity to work with other international leaders in the field of indoor air quality. While in Denmark Dr. Corsi will lecture on indoor air quality in graduate courses and during a special week-long workshop in the mountains of Bulgaria. He will collaborate with faculty members and graduate students on a project related to near-body chemistry and its relationship to human perceptions and work productivity.
Corsi is an international leader in the field of indoor air quality, with a particular emphasis on sources of indoor air pollution, and both homogeneous and heterogeneous indoor air chemistry. He was recently elected to the Academy of Fellows of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ). Corsi was also recently named the president of Indoor Air, a signature triennial conference of ISIAQ, which will be held in Austin in 2011.
He holds the E.C.H. Bantel Professorship for Professional Practice.
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