Philip Hopke
Dr. Philip K. Hopke is the Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor at Clarkson University and the Director of the Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science. Dr. Hopke is the past Chair of the CASAC, and also chaired the CASAC Ambient Air Monitoring and Methods (AAMM) Subcommittee. In addition, he has served as an Science Advisory Board (SAB) Member. Professor Hopke is a Past President of the American Association for Aerosol Research, and was a member of the National Research Council’s Congressionally-mandated Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter and the Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States. He has served on eight other NRC committees including the Committee on Risk Assessment of Exposure to Radon in Drinking Water. Professor Hopke received his B.S. in Chemistry from Trinity College (Hartford) and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Princeton University. After a post-doctoral appointment at M.I.T., he spent four years as an assistant professor at the State University College at Fredonia, NY. Dr. Hopke then joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, rising to the rank of professor of environmental chemistry, and subsequently came to Clarkson in 1989 as the first Robert A. Plane Professor with a principal appointment in the Department of Chemistry. He has served as Dean of the Graduate School, Chair of the Department of Chemistry, and Head of the Division of Chemical and Physical Sciences before he moved his principal appointment to the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed to his current positions at Clarkson. During the 2008-09 academic year, he served as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.