John Volckens

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University

Dr. John Volckens is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. He also holds faculty appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and the Colorado School of Public Health. His research interests involve human exposure assessment, aerosol technology, and air pollution-related disease. He earned a BS in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1996 and MS and PhD degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He then went on to a Postdoctoral position in Environmental Chemistry at the U.S. EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC. In 2004 he joined the faculty at Colorado State University, where he pioneered the development of several new sensor technologies – resulting in several recent patent applications. Dr. Volckens is the recipient of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Journal's 'Best Paper' award in 1999, has served two terms as chair of AIHA's Aerosol Technology Committee, and is the former president of the Board of Directors for the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. He has over 15 years of experience and has published over 50 manuscripts related to exposure science and air pollution. He is a co-founder of Access Sensor Technologies, a spinout company started through his research collaborations at Colorado State University.

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