| Tiina
Reponen received her M.S. degree in Environmental Hygiene in 1985 and her
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences in 1994 from the University of Kuopio in
Finland. Since starting her
research career in 1985, she has studied a diversity of indoor air
particles, such as fungal spores, bacteria and total dust, and gases, such
as formaldehyde and radon. During
1990-94, she was involved in several large-scale projects dealing with
fungal spore exposure and the consequent health effects in homes, day-care
centers, hospitals and several occupational environments.
The
studies involved microbiologists, epidemiologists, medical doctors and
civil engineers. Since 1987, she has published her findings in various
national and international journals and presented them at national and
international conferences in Finland, Sweden, England, France, Germany, Italy,
Hungary, China, Australia and
the USA. While employed by
the University of Kuopio as a researcher and lecturer, she participated in
the teaching of the graduate courses in the Department of Environmental
Sciences. After completing her Ph.D., she joined the University of
Cincinnati in January 1995 as a Visiting Scholar. She was appointed as Associate Professor (1997) and Full
Professor (2005) in
the Department of Environmental Health in the University of Cincinnati. Her research efforts are now focused on the exposure assessment of
biological and non-biological particles in indoor and industrial
environments, physical and microbiological characterization of airborne
actinomycete and fungal spores, the dispersion of bioaerosols under
natural and laboratory conditions, and the control of airborne
microorganisms by filtration. She
is leading the exposure assessment team of a 5-year project on the
interaction between traffic pollution and bioaerosols in the development
of children’s atopy. Her
long-term goal is to contribute towards better understanding and
preventing the adverse health effects of bioaerosols.
She is also involved in the teaching of graduate courses, and the
research guidance of several M.S. and Ph.D. students and postdoctoral
fellows.
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