The Dean’s announcement of Professor Costas Sioutas to the Champion Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering can be found in the text below, and the PDF is available at: http://viterbi.usc.edu/links/?361

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M E M O R A N D U M

To: Viterbi School Faculty and Staff

From: Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean

Date: April 10, 2007

Subject: Appointment of Professor Sioutas to the Champion Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering 


I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Costas Sioutas of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as the first holder of the Fred Champion Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective July 1, 2007. The appointment recognizes Costas’ exceptional distinction and will be for a term of five years. The professorship was created from the Fred Champion endowment, which also supports the Fred Champion endowed chair.


Professor Sioutas, ScD, is the Co-Director of the Southern California Particle Center (SCPC), established in late 1999 by the US EPA. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, a MS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from Harvard University. He started his academic career at the Harvard School of Public Heath in 1995, and joined the faculty of the VSOE in 1998. His research is focusing on developing technologies for measuring the physico-chemical characteristics of air pollutants, with an emphasis on particulate matter (PM) and determining their toxic properties. Findings from his work have been extensively used in legislation, including the revision of US EPA National Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) on particulate matter (PM) and also by the state of California. Costas has authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications, and holds 14 U.S. patents in the field of aerosol instrumentation. He is a Fulbright Fellow (1986), a recipient of the 3M Circle of Technical Excellence Award (1991), a recipient of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (2000), and a member of the Air Quality Advisory Committee on PM for the State of California (as of 2001).


Please join me in congratulating Costas on this well deserved honor.