Hosein Foroutan
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Emissions, Transport, and Fate of Emerging Pollutants in the Atmosphere
Air Quality and Human Health
Microplastics and Nanoplastics
Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Mechanics
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (minor in Computational Science), Penn State, 2015
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2009
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2006
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2023-present
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019-2023
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, 2017-2019
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), 2015-2017
- NSF CAREER Award, 2022
- Junior Fellow Award, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, 2022
- The Early Career Research Award, European Association for the Science of Air Pollution, 2016
- The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2014
- Hydro Research Foundation (HRF) / U.S. Department of Energy Fellowship Award, 2013