Christodoulatos appointed director of Stevens' Center for Environmental Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology recently announced the appointment of Dr. Christos Christodoulatos as director of the Center for Environmental Engineering (CEE) in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering at Stevens. He succeeds Dr. George Korfiatis, who was appointed dean of the Schaefer School Oct 1.

Christodoulatos has been involved with the CEE since its founding in 1989.

"Christos has contributed enormously to the success of the CEE," said Korfiatis.

"He has served the center in various important capacities, including Director of Operations at the James C. Nicoll, Jr. Environmental Laboratory and Associate Director of the center."

"As a professor," said Stevens president, Dr. Hal Raveche, "Christos has made significant contributions in innovative teaching, including the areas of project-based learning and assessment, institutional service and scholarly works."

Christodoulatos' area of expertise is biological and physiochemical process for environmental control. Over the past four years, he has contributed significantly to new intellectual property development, in the spirit of Stevens' educational environment, Technogenesis®, in which students, faculty, and partners in industry and government jointly nurture new technologies from innovation to marketplace implementation. He was among the original group of faculty and administrators who propounded the Technogenesis concept; he is also a co-founder of, and advisor to, the Stevens Technogenesis spin-out companies HydroGlobe and PlasmaSol.

Christodoulatos has pursued environmental technology research supported by agencies and industries such as NASA, the US Department of Defense, Brookhaven National Labs, and Exxon Corporation.

He holds a doctorate in Environmental Engineering (1991) from Stevens Institute of Technology and a master's degree in Chemical Engineering (1985) from the City College of the City University of New York. He is a member of the International Association on Water Quality and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

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