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David Allen Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering allen@che.utexas.edu |
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| Office: CPE 3.462 Phone: (512) 471-0049 Fax: UT Mail: C0400 |
Interests
Dr. David Allen is the Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of six books and over 170 papers in areas ranging from coal liquefaction and heavy oil chemistry to the chemistry of urban atmospheres. For the past decade, his work has focused primarily on urban air quality and the development of materials for environmental education. Dr. Allen was a lead investigator for the first and second Texas Air Quality Studies, which involved hundreds of researchers drawn from around the world, and which have had a substantial impact on the direction of air quality policies in Texas. He has also developed environmental educational materials for engineering curricula and for the University’s core curriculum. The quality of his work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation (through the Presidential Young Investigator Award), the AT&T Foundation (through an Industrial Ecology Fellowship), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (through the Cecil Award for contributions to environmental engineering), and the State of Texas (through the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award). He has won teaching awards at the University of Texas and UCLA.
Dr. Allen received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1979. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering were awarded by the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1983. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Energy.
Education
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983
Representative PublicationsFTIR Analysis of Aerosol Formed in the Photooxidation of Isoprene and ß-Pinene" Atmospheric Environment, 26A: 1239-1251 (1992) (with E.J. Palen, S.N. Pandis, S.E. Paulson, J.H. Seinfeld and R.C. Flagan)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of Size Segregated Aerosol", Aerosol Science and Technology, 21: 325-342 (1994) (with E.J. Palen, S.V. Hering and J.R. Young)
Loadings, Size Distributions and Sources of Compound Classes in Los Angeles Aerosol", Inhalation Toxicology, 7: 723-734 (1995)
FTIR Analysis of Aerosol Formed in the Photooxidation of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene', submitted to Aerosol Science and Technology (1996) (with A. Holes, A. Eusebi, and D. Grosjean)
Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes", Wiley (1996) (with K. Rosselot)
