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Hosein Foroutan

Associate Professor
Hosein Foroutan, Assistant Professor
417 Durham Hall
1145 Perry St. (0246)
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Program Area : Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Personal Homepage : https://www.airflows.cee.vt.edu/

Area of Interest

·         Emissions, Transport, and Fate of Emerging Pollutants in the Atmosphere
·         Air Quality and Human Health
·         Atmospheric Science and Climate Dynamics
·         Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Mechanics

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (minor in Computational Science), Penn State, 2015
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2009
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2006
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2023-present
  • Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019-2023
  • Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, 2017-2019
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), 2015-2017
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2022
  • Junior Fellow Award, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, 2022
  • The Early Career Research Award, European Association for the Science of Air Pollution, 2016
  • The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2014
  • Hydro Research Foundation (HRF) / U.S. Department of Energy Fellowship Award, 2013