Dr. Christopher Tessum

Title of Talk: Reduced-form air quality modeling for improved public health

Short Bio: Dr. Christopher Tessum is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tessum received a B.M.E in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, with a minor in Public Health, from the University of Minnesota. His research assesses air pollution-related effects of human activity, focusing on mechanistic modeling of outdoor air pollution and its health impacts, quantifying inequities in the distribution of those impacts, and proposing and testing solutions. He studies the relationships between emissions, human activities that cause them, and the resulting health impacts, and develops modeling capabilities to enable these types of analyses.