The International Hellenic University is pleased to announce a lecture to be given by Dr Costas Sioutas, Fred Champion Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering - University of Southern California, on the subject of

Emissions, Trends, Characteristics and Health Effects of Particulate Air Pollutants in the Megacity of Los Angeles

The talk will be held on Wednesday 21 September 2011, 18:00 in the main Auditorium of the International Hellenic University.

If you wish to participate, please reserve your seat filling the electronic registration form here or by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by telephone at 2310807528.

Dr Sioutas’ short CV:

Dr Constantinos Sioutas, Sc.D., is currently the first holder of the Fred Champion Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Southern California Particle Center and Supersite (SCPCS). The SCPCS is a 12-year research program, established in early 2000 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for an initial award of about $40 million. He received his undergraduate education in mechanical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he was born.

He came to the U.S. in the fall of 1986 as a Fulbright Foundation fellow to pursue graduate studies. He received MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Minnesota. He worked as an Advanced Product Development Engineer for 3M for two years, prior to continuing his doctoral studies at Harvard School of Public Health in the department of Environmental Engineering, where he received his Doctor of Science degree in 1994. He started his academic career in 1995 as an Assistant Professor of Aerosol Science at the Harvard, prior to joining the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) in January 1998.

Dr Sioutas’s research has followed an integrated approach to the problem of the well-publicized and significant effects of particulate air pollution on health and the environment. His research has focused on investigations of the underlying mechanisms that produce the health effects associated with exposure to air pollutants generated by a variety of combustion sources, such as traffic (including light and heavy-duty vehicles, natural gas buses, and biodiesel vehicles), harbor and airport operations, power plants, and photochemically induced atmospheric reactions. He was the PI in one of the first and most highly cited studies on exposures to vehicular emissions and the decrease of pollutants with distance to freeways.

During his faculty career, he has directed, as either a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator, some 40 research grants exceeding $40 million (USC's share $20 million), many of which extend through 2012 and beyond. He has authored about 230 peer-reviewed journal publications, 5 book chapters and holds 13 U.S. patents in the development of instrumentation for aerosol measurement and emissions control. His published work has received over 6,000 citations according to the ISI Web of Science, he is among the top 1% authors worldwide in Engineering according to the Institute of Scientific Information. Results from his publications have been used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their National Air Quality Criteria document in promulgating stricter air quality standards in the US. He has advised 18 PhD students, and mentored 23 postdoctoral fellows at USC. He is co-editor in chief of the journal of Aerosol & Air Quality Research and a member of the editorial board of Atmospheric Environment.