Professor Tina Chow Joins CEE Faculty

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes Fotini (Tina) Katopodes Chow, who joins the faculty in July 2005 as Assistant Professor. Professor Chow will contribute to the department's Environmental Engineering program with her research and teaching expertise in environmental fluid mechanics.

Tina Chow received a B.S. (1998) in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and an M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology from Stanford University.

In 2004-2005, Professor Chow was a postdoctoral researcher in the atmospheric science division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she worked primarily on contaminant dispersion simulations for urban environments.

Professor Chow's main research area is computational fluid dynamics for large-eddy simulation. Her research addresses numerical methods for environmental applications such as atmospheric boundary layer flow over complex terrain, urban boundary layer flow, and coupled land-atmosphere interactions.

In fall 2005, Professor Chow will teach CE 100, Elementary Fluid Mechanics. In spring 2006, she will teach CE 200B, Numerical Modeling of Environmental Flows, in which she will cover numerical methods and various environmental applications.