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Catherine Koshland
Catherine P. Koshland is the Vice Provost of Academic Planning and Facilities at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering. She is a professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and a professor in the Energy and Resources Group. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1984. In 1999, she joined a distinguished group when she presented the Nineteenth Annual Steven Manly Memorial Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara. At Berkeley, during 2002-2003, she was the Chair of the Academic Senate; she served as Vice-Chair from January 2001-July 2002. Professor Koshland graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Haverford College, studied painting at the New York School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and received her M.S. in 1978 and her Ph.D. in 1985 in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. She has served on numerous committees at Berkeley, including the Berkeley Campus Strategic Planning Committee from 2000-2002. A member of the Haverford College Board of Managers since 1994, she has served as Board Co-Chair since 2006. Dr. Koshland’s research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health emphasizing mechanistic approaches as well as a systems perspective. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds to studies of human health. Her combustion research has focused on pollutant formation including chlorinated hydrocarbons and particulates, on the impacts of particulates and nano-particles on human health, and the development of advanced diagnostic tools for non-intrusive monitoring of combustion. She has worked in green manufacturing and industrial ecology, addressing the conception and assessment of environmental and health dimensions to improve energy and manufacturing technologies. Her work includes critical assessments of environmental policy, and social and environmental impacts that result from the implementation of new technology or regulation. From 1994 to 2006, Dr. Koshland was a director of the Combustion Institute. Since 2003, she has served as a member of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Koshland served on the California Air Resources Board Research Screening Committee and currently serves as Associate Director of the University of California, Berkeley Superfund Basic Research Program. |
