Appendix B

Biographic Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Workshop Speakers

Planning Committee Members

Richard L. Corsi, PhD, PE (Chair), is the dean of engineering at the University of California, Davis. Previously, he was the H. Chik M. Erzurulu Dean of the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University and, before that, a faculty member, department chair, and endowed research chair at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Corsi is an internationally recognized expert in the field of indoor air quality, with a specific interest in physical and chemical interactions between pollutants and indoor materials. He and his team have published nearly 270 peer-reviewed papers stemming from 70 funded research projects and supervision of over 120 students in research. He was inducted into the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climates’ Academy of Fellows in 2008, and currently serves as academy president. Dr. Corsi was a member of the planning committee responsible for the 2016 National Academies report Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Particulate Matter: Workshop Summary. He received his BS degree in environmental resources engineering from Humboldt State University, where he was honored as a distinguished alumnus in 2006, and his MS and PhD degrees in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis, where he received a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal in 2016.

Seema Bhangar, PhD, is the senior indoor air quality manager at WeWork, a commercial real estate company that provides flexible workspaces. Her

mission is to drive the use of new science and technology for designing, building, and operating buildings that are better for health and productivity, and more resilient and energy efficient. She specializes in indoor air quality research projects with a focus on applying human-centric approaches to environmental sensing in buildings and transportation systems. Dr. Bhangar previously served as technical lead and product manager for the design and development of next-generation indoor sensing devices for Aclima, Inc. She is a regular peer reviewer for journals including Indoor Air, Building and Environment, and Environmental Science & Technology. She earned a BAS from Stanford University and an MS and PhD in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Wanyu (Rengie) Chan, PhD, is a research scientist and deputy leader of the Indoor Environment Group in Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her work focuses on characterizing indoor air quality and implications for human exposures in residential and commercial buildings. Dr. Chan led a recent field study to evaluate the role of mechanical ventilation on indoor air quality in new California homes, and she is part of an ongoing project funded by the Department of Energy’s Building America Program to study indoor air quality in new homes across different US regions. She has also modeled the health benefits from filtration of ambient PM_2.5 and during wildfire smoke. She joined Berkeley Lab as a graduate student and worked on the evaluation of shelter-in-place effectiveness. Dr. Chan earned her BS in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and her MS and PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Elizabeth Matsui, MD, MHS, is a professor of population health and pediatrics at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also director of clinical and translational research. She is a leading international expert on environmental allergies and asthma. Her research focuses on examining the impact of allergen exposure on allergic disease. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and is a member of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Dr. Matsui served on the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Medical and Epidemiological Aspects of Air Pollution on US Government Employees and Their Families. She received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology and her MD from Vanderbilt University, and completed a master of health science in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Linda A. McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN (NAM), is a professor and dean of Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. She has special knowledge in the design of epidemiological investigations of environmental hazards and is nationally recognized for her expertise in occupational and environmental health nursing. Her work aims to identify culturally appropriate interventions to decrease the impact of environmental and occupational health hazards in vulnerable populations, including workers and young children. Dr. McCauley was previously the associate dean for research and Nightingale Professor in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She has served on numerous National Academies committees. She received a bachelor of nursing degree from the University of North Carolina, a master’s in nursing from Emory, and a PhD in environmental health and epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. McCauley was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.

Kimberly A. Prather, PhD (NAE, NAS), holds a joint appointment as professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California, San Diego. Her research involves the development and application in field and lab studies of real-time measurements of size-resolved chemistry of aerosols. She is involved in aerosol source apportionment studies and her group is working to better understand the impact of specific aerosol sources on health and climate. Dr. Prather was a member of the Fine Particle Monitoring Subcommittee of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. She is on a number of editorial boards for journals including Aerosol Science and Technology, and is a member of professional societies including the American Association for Aerosol Research, American Chemical Society, and American Geophysical Union. Dr. Prather received her BS and PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Davis. She was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

David Y.H. Pui, PhD (NAE), is Regents Professor and the L.M. Fingerson/TSI Inc. Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and director of both the university’s Particle Technology Laboratory and Center for Filtration Research. He has a broad range of research experience in aerosol science and technology, including particle instrumentation development and filtration solutions for air pollution control; and development of instrumentation for generating, sampling, and measuring airborne particles. He has authored more than 320 peer-reviewed journal papers and has over 30 patents, and has developed or codeveloped several widely used commercial aerosol instruments. Dr. Pui previously served as president of the American Association for Aerosol

Research and of the International Aerosol Research Assembly, consisting of 17 international aerosol associations. He earned bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Pui was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Jeffrey Siegel, PhD,¹ is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto and a member of the university’s Building Engineering Research Group. He holds joint appointments at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences. Dr. Siegel is a fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and a member of the Academy of Fellows of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). His research interests include healthy and sustainable buildings, ventilation and indoor air quality in residential and commercial buildings, control of indoor particulate matter, the indoor microbiome, and moisture interactions with indoor chemistry and biology. Dr. Siegel earned a BSc from Swarthmore College and an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Marina Vance, PhD,¹ is an assistant professor and McLagan Family Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, and holds a courtesy appointment in the university’s Environmental Engineering program. Her research is focused on air quality, particularly on measuring emissions and understanding the dynamics of aerosols in the context of ambient and indoor air quality. She is the principal investigator of the HOMEChem (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry) research initiative, which incorporated measurements from over 20 research groups at 13 universities to identify the most important aspects of the chemistry that controls the indoor environment. Dr. Vance earned a BS in sanitation and environmental engineering, an MS in environmental engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Virginia Tech.

David A. Butler, PhD (National Academies staff officer), is the J. Herbert Hollomon Scholar of the National Academy of Engineering. He previously held an appointment as scholar in the National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division. Before joining the National Academies, he was an analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, a research associate in the Department of Environmental Health of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a researcher at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy

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¹ Drs. Siegel and Vance also served as workshop speakers.

School of Government, and a product safety engineer for Xerox Corporation. He has directed several National Academies studies on environmental health and risk assessment topics, including those that produced Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures; Damp Indoor Spaces and Health; Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health; and Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Particulate Matter: Workshop Summary. Dr. Butler earned his BS and MS in electrical engineering, with a specialization in biomedical engineering, from the University of Rochester and his PhD in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of the National Academies’ Cecil Medal for Research.

Workshop Speakers

Stuart Batterman, PhD, is a professor in environmental health sciences as well as global public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. His research and teaching interests address environmental impact assessment, human exposure and health risk assessment, and environmental management involving both theoretical work and applied laboratory and field studies. He is particularly interested in improving exposure measures that can be used in risk assessments and epidemiological studies; measuring toxic compounds including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found as pollutants in drinking water, ambient and indoor air; and statistical and modeling methods that can be used to interpret and extend available measurements. His research is applied to contemporary problems including ambient and indoor air quality, environmental epidemiology, policy analysis, environmental engineering, environmental justice, and life cycle analysis. Dr. Batterman earned a BS in environmental sciences from Rutgers University, and an MS and PhD in water resources and environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sarah Coefield, MS, MA, is an Air Quality Specialist with the Missoula City-County Health Department. As a public health practitioner she works to prepare the public for air pollution events through studies, communication, planning and direct interventions. She has lectured on the topic of Wildfire Smoke-Ready Communities at multiple conferences, workshops, and webinars in the United States and Canada, including a 2018 International Association of Wildland Fire conference, a 2018 Northwest Center for Public Health Practice Hot Topics in Practice webinar, the 2019 Health Effects Institute Annual Conference, a 2019 American Thoracic Society workshop, a 2019 Air & Waste Management Association conference, and a 2019 British Columbia Lung Association conference. Ms. Coefield has been a part of the Air Quality Program at the health department since 2010. She is the lead on smoke management, wildfire smoke response, and oxygenated

fuels and also works on large projects, such as the PM₁₀ Redesignation Request and the Carbon Monoxide Limited Maintenance Plan.

Delphine Farmer, PhD, is an associate professor of atmospheric chemistry at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on outdoor atmospheric and indoor chemistry with an emphasis on understanding the sources and sinks of reactive trace gases and particles and their effects on climate, ecosystems, and human health. Her recent work has focused on air chemistry in residential environments. She is a member of the NASEM Committee on Emerging Science on Indoor Chemistry. She received the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award. Dr. Farmer earned her MS and PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrea Ferro, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University. Her technical expertise is focused on indoor air quality and human exposure to particulate pollutants. She has also worked in the private industry, engineering consulting, and nonprofit sectors. The overall goal of her work is to improve human health by improving air quality through source control, ventilation and purification strategies, education, and regulatory policy. Dr. Ferro teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental engineering, sustainable development, air pollution, and human exposure analysis. She is the faculty advisor for the Clarkson Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) and the Clarkson student chapter of the American Association for Aerosol Research. She earned an MS in civil engineering and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University.

Elliott Gall, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Portland State University. His research and teaching investigate phenomena in built environments that affect indoor and urban environmental quality. Dr. Gall’s Thermal and Fluid Science Group seeks to develop new approaches that improve building sustainability through an understanding of the intersection of building energy use, indoor air quality, and occupant wellbeing. Dr. Gall earned an MS in environmental and water resources engineering and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lindsay T. Graham, PhD, is a research specialist at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) of the University of California, Berkeley. She is a psychometrician and personality and social psychologist who specializes in the assessment of individuals in their daily environments and person-environment fit. Additionally, her research explores the ways in which human behaviors and personality influence the indoor air quality of an

environment, and the physical and mental health consequences of these building-occupant interactions. She is working on ways to enhance assessment of human-building interactions, specifically through CBE’s Occupant Indoor Environmental Quality Survey, a web-based tool that quantifies how buildings are performing from the perspective of the occupants. Dr. Graham earned a PhD in personality and social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Stephanie Holm, MD, MPH, is codirector of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at the University of California, San Francisco. She is board certified in both pediatrics and occupational/environmental medicine. She was the PI on the AQUA Study, a dual-cohort study of asthmatic children with and without cigarette exposure; it measured particulate matter levels in children’s home environments to correlate these with other features of the household and behaviors of its occupants. Dr. Holm earned an MD from the University of Pittsburgh and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and she is pursuing a PhD in epidemiology while continuing her research activities.

Cesunica Ivey, PhD, is an assistant professor in chemical and environmental engineering at the University of California, Riverside, and principal investigator of the Air Quality Modeling and Exposure Laboratory. She is also a member of the Bridging Regional Ecology, Aerosolized Toxins, and Health Effects (BREATHE) Center, a multidisciplinary collaborative. Dr. Ivey’s research interests include source apportionment of fine particulate matter, regional air quality modeling for health applications, global atmospheric modeling, and environmental justice. She earned a PhD in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Howard Kipen, MD, MPH, is a professor of occupational and environmental health in the School of Public Health and director of Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University. His research focuses on clinical and epidemiological studies of the health effects of ambient air pollution. He is a governor’s appointee to the Public Employees’ Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, New Jersey Department of Labor, and member of the Public Health Scientific Advisory Board, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. He has served on several committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Standing Committee on Medical and Epidemiological Aspects of Air Pollution on US Government Employees and Their Families. He received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and holds an MPH from Columbia University.

Kirsten Koehler, PhD, is an associate professor of environmental health and engineering in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her research seeks to improve exposure assessment methods to inform occupational and public health policy using direct-reading instrumentation to improve spatiotemporal exposure assessment. She is also developing novel aerosol samplers to improve the measurement of exposure to aerosolized particles and their health effects. In addition, Dr. Koehler is the principal investigator on a study exploring indoor exposure to traffic-related air pollution. She earned her BS from UCLA and MS and PhD from Colorado State University, all in atmospheric science.

Dusan Licina, PhD, is an assistant professor of indoor environmental quality at the School for Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, where he leads the Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab. Dr. Licina’s research focuses on the intersections between people and the built environment in order to ensure high indoor environmental quality for building occupants with minimum energy input. He specializes in air quality engineering, focusing on understanding of concentrations, dynamics and fates of air pollutants in buildings, and development and application of methods to quantitatively describe relationships between air pollution sources and consequent human exposures. His research interests also encompass optimization of building ventilation systems to improve air quality and thermal comfort in an energy-efficient manner. Dr. Licina earned an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and completed a joint doctorate degree from the National University of Singapore and the Technical University of Denmark.

Linsey Marr, PhD, is the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and the principal investigator at the Center for Applied Interdisciplinary Research in Air. Her research interests include characterizing the emissions, fate, and transport of air pollutants in order to provide the scientific basis for improving air quality and health. She also conducts research on airborne transmission of infectious diseases. Dr. Marr was affiliated with the advisory board of Phylagen until January 2021 and currently consults for Smiths Detection, CrossFit, Inc., and the MITRE Corporation. She is a member of the National Academies’ Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology and recently served on the planning committee for Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Virtual Workshop of the Academies’ Environmental Health Matters Initiative and on the committee responsible for Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Engineering and Science for the 21st Century. In 2013 she

received a New Innovator Award from the director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Marr earned a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Meredith C. McCormack, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a joint appointment in environmental health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also associate program director of the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program and active in mentoring fellows and junior faculty. She has clinical expertise in asthma, COPD, and general pulmonary and critical care medicine, as well as pulmonary physiology and pulmonary function testing. She is the medical director of the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary Function Laboratory and vice chair of the American Thoracic Society Committee for Proficiency Standards in Pulmonary Function Testing. Her research focuses on the effect of environmental influences on underlying obstructive lung disease—specifically air pollution, diet, and obesity influences on COPD and asthma. She has been funded by the NIEHS and the EPA to conduct environmental cohort studies to understand the effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution on children and adults with underlying respiratory disease. Her work is largely focused in Baltimore City but has included rural areas of the State of Washington, Appalachia, and the Caribbean. Dr. McCormack earned an MD from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and an MHS from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

William Nazaroff, PhD, is the Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research, focused on the physics and chemistry of air pollutants in proximity to people, especially in indoor environments, involved exposure science, stressing the development and application of methods to better understand mechanistically the relationship between emission sources and human exposure to pollutants. Prior to his retirement, Dr. Nazaroff was editor in chief of Indoor Air; president of the Academy of Fellows in the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate; and president of the American Association for Aerosol Research. He is coauthor of Environmental Engineering Science and has served on the National Academies Committee on the Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health. Dr. Nazaroff received his master’s in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a PhD in environmental engineering sciences from California Institute of Technology.

Jeffrey Siegel, PhD – Dr. Siegel’s biographic sketch is listed with the planning committee members above.

Brett C. Singer, PhD, is a staff scientist, leader of the Indoor Environment Group, and principal investigator in the Energy Technologies Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has conceived, conducted, and led research projects related to air pollutant emissions and physical-chemical processes in both outdoor and indoor environments, aiming to understand real-world processes and systems that affect air pollutant exposures. A major focus of his work has been indoor environmental quality and risk reduction in high-performance homes, with the goal of accelerating adoption of indoor air quality, comfort, durability, and sustainability measures into new homes and retrofits of existing homes. Key focus areas of this work are low-energy systems for filtration, smart ventilation, and mitigation approaches to indoor pollutant sources, including cooking. Dr. Singer codeveloped the population impact assessment modeling framework (PIAMF). He earned a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Brent Stephens, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He is an expert in the fate and transport of indoor pollutants, building energy and environmental measurements, HVAC filtration, human exposure assessment, building energy simulation, and energy-efficient building design. Dr. Stephens runs the Built Environment Research Group at IIT, in which undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers conduct research on energy efficiency and indoor air quality in buildings. His recent research projects include improving and applying methods to measure the infiltration of outdoor particulate matter and reactive gases into homes; measuring gas and particle emissions from desktop three-dimensional printers and evaluating emission control devices; measuring the in situ particle removal efficiency of HVAC filters in real environments; developing inexpensive, open source devices based on the Arduino platform for measuring and recording long-term indoor environmental and building operational data; and characterizing the energy and air quality impacts of higher-efficiency HVAC filters in central residential air conditioning systems. Dr. Stephens earned an MSE in environmental and water resources engineering and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Marina Vance, PhD – Dr. Vance’s biographic sketch is listed with the planning committee members above.

Michael Waring, PhD, is a professor and department head of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering at Drexel University. His research exists at the intersection of environmental and architectural engineering. It focuses on indoor air quality and exposure, indoor aerosol and chemical modeling, and sustainable buildings. He believes that making buildings function more effectively is imperative to solving many societal challenges. Dr. Waring has received the NSF CAREER Award as well as the New Investigator Award from the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He earned a BA in English and economics, a BS in architectural engineering, an MS in environmental and water resources engineering, and a PhD in civil engineering, all from the University of Texas at Austin.

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