Recent Invited Presentations

The following are examples of invited oral presentations delivered during the past seven years.  This list does not include presentations to sponsors, alumni groups, or classes/student chapters/other groups affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin or Portland State University, of which there have been many.

1. “Indoor Air Quality and Aerosol Transmission Pathways for Viruses,” Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate spring 2020 meeting, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (5/28/20)
2. “Indoor Environmental Chemistry: Importance and Influencing Factors,” AAAS Symposium on Chemistry in Indoor Environments (9/19/19)
3. “Living in a Material World: How the Surfaces Around You Affect What You Breathe,” University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering (4/13/2018)
4. “Living in a Material World: How the Surfaces Around You Affect What You Breathe,” American Institute of Architects, Austin (12/06/2017)
5. “Indoor Atmospheric Chemistry: The Role of Interior Surfaces,” UC Berkeley – Atmospheric Sciences Center (11/29/2017)
6. “Living in a Material World: How the Surfaces Around You Affect What You Breathe,” School of Architecture, University of Oregon (Portland campus) (10/24/2017)
7.  “Living in a Material World: How the Surfaces Around You Affect What You Breathe,” School of Architecture, University of Oregon (Eugene campus) (10/23/2017)
8. “Living in a Material World: How the Surfaces Around You Affect What You Breathe,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington (10/20/2017)
9. “Building Science ∩ Science in Buildings,” Microbiology of the Built Environment Symposium, Washington, D.C. (10/12/2017)
10. “Living in a Material World: How the Surfaces Around You Affect What You Breathe,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis (10/3/2017)
11. “Gaseous Decontamination of Buildings: Why Surface Chemistry Matters,” Department of Environmental Toxicology, UC Davis (10/2/2017)
12. “Challenges in Indoor Air Chemistry Measurements,” Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Sunday River, ME (7/31/2017)
13. “Indoor Surfaces and Their Role in Defining Indoor Exposure to Indoor Pollutants,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University (2/6/2017)
14. “Setting the Stage for Discovery: Chemistry of Indoor Environments,” Colorado State University – Sloan Workshop on Chemistry of Indoor Environments(1/19/2017)
15. “Hidden Connections: Indoor Air Quality and the Unseen and Often Complex Factors that Define It,” Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Portland State University (11/18/2016)
16. “Reactivity of Buildings,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University (4/27/2016) 
17. “Hidden Connections: Building Energy, Reactivity, and Air Quality,” plenary presentation at ISHVAC/COBEE Annual Meeting (7/13/2015)
18.  “Reductions in Ozone Exposure: Activated Carbon Filtration in Buildings,” Tsinghua University (7/11/2015)
19.  “Connect or Stagnate: The Future of Indoor Air Sciences,” plenary presentation, 10^th Annual Meeting of HVAC Professors of China, Beijing University of Technology (7/10/2015)
20.  “Buildings and Indoor Air Quality: The Forgotten Environment,” Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, TX (10/27/2014)
21. “Microbiomes and Built Environments,” presented at the AAAS Symposium – Microbiomes of the Built Environment, Washington, D.C. (3/27/2014)
22.  “Exposure of Children to Air Pollution (Including Factors that Really Matter),” presented at the Houston Initiative & Roundtable Discussion: The Environment Related to Asthma and Respiratory Disease in Pre-School and School-Age Children, Houston TX (11/15/2013).
23. “Building Energy and Reactivity: Complex Interactions, Simple Solutions,” presented at ASHRAE IAQ 2013 – Environmental Health in Low Energy Buildings – Vancouver, BC, Canada (10/17/2013) (keynote)
24.  “Reactivity of Buildings,” presented at the Oskar von Miller Forum, Munich, Germany (5/16/2013).
25. “Buildings as Chemical Reactors,” presented to the Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University (4/15/2013)
26.  “Buildings as Chemical Reactors – And Their Occupants as Inadvertent Alchemists,” presented to the UT Health Science Centers (broadcast via seminar room w/ live audience in Austin) (2/15/2013)