William Nazaroff

Chair
310 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3050
nazaroff@ce.berkeley.edu

Office Hours:
W 3-4
Sign up in 310 Barrows or call 510-642-1640

The importance of the Energy and Resources Group as an academic unit is hard to overstate. Its domain of intellectual inquiry includes some of the most pressing issues faced by society. The style of inquiry has enormous practical and symbolic value for the institution of higher education. ERG students and faculty strive to integrate — not just juxtapose — disparate intellectual traditions. This process is needed in other intellectual domains, and the success of ERG serves as an existence proof of the possibilities. Broadly, my goal as chair is to help make ERG a place where each member of its community — especially students, faculty, and staff — feels called upon and capable of doing her or his best work to contribute to ERG’s mission. My favorite aspect of academic life is learning. Because Berkeley students are so extraordinary, teaching on this campus provides enormous opportunities to learn. And of course research is all about learning. A major attraction for me in the position of ERG chair is that it affords a great opportunity to learn from gifted, intellectually diverse, and broadly experienced students and faculty, and to learn about topics that I care about deeply.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Professor Nazaroff joined the Berkeley faculty in 1988, after completing degrees in Physics (BA, UC Berkeley, 1978), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MEng, UC Berkeley, 1980), and Environmental Engineering Science (PhD, Caltech, 1989). He teaches undergraduate courses in environmental engineering and climate-change mitigation. At the graduate level, he offers courses in air quality engineering and air pollutant dynamics. His research group aims to understand the physical and chemical processes that govern air pollutant concentrations and fates. The goal is to develop the information needed to assess and control human health effects from air pollutant exposures. Dr. Nazaroff’s research is conducted through laboratory-scale experiments, numerical and analytical modeling, and information synthesis.

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