KLAUS WILLEKE, Ph.D., CIH
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Professor Emeritus and Consultant in Aerosol Science and Technology (University of Cincinnati)
Center for Health Related Aerosol Studies

 

Klaus Willeke, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
21 Donald Drive
Orinda, CA 94563
Tel/Fax (925) 258-9707

- Email - Klaus.Willeke@uc.edu


In January 2003, Klaus Willeke became Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health and Industrial Engineering at the University of Cincinnati and moved with his wife Audrone (who became Professor Emerita at Miami University of Ohio) back to California, where both had received their Ph.D.’s in the 1960’s. During his education phase, Klaus Willeke had studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire (B.S. 1963), Fluid Dynamics at the von Kármán Institute in Belgium (Diploma 1966), and Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University in California (M.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1969). From 1969 to 1970 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max‑Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching, Germany. In 1970 he became a faculty member and joined the Particle Technology Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In 1976 he joined the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati where he created and developed the Aerosol Research and Exposure Assessment Laboratory. From 1986 to 1988 he directed the Industrial and Environmental Hygiene Graduate Education Programs at the University of Cincinnati.

His research interests are fundamental and applied research on the sampling and analysis of airborne particles and microorganisms, and the characterization of their physical and biological components; the development of new aerosol measurement devices; the development of new respiratory protection techniques; deposition of inhaled aerosols in the human respiratory system; therapeutic drug delivery by aerosol means; and dynamic measurement of industrial and environmental aerosols. He has authored or co-authored over 185 peer-reviewed publications, and has published one book on aerosol measurement and one on aerosol generation.  The expanded second edition of the aerosol measurement book was published in September 2001. Several of the concepts generated by him have been incorporated into commercially available instruments. About 30 scholars have spent a year or more working with him and his group colleagues. He has graduated over 25 Ph.D.s and about the same number of M.S. students.  His co-authors represent 26 different nationalities. He is certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, and is a consultant to major U.S. companies.  Institutions and professional organizations in North America, Europe and Asia have frequently sponsored him to present his work.  His research and education efforts have been recognized by four annual “Outstanding Aerosol Paper” awards, one annual “Best Poster” awards, two annual “John White Respiratory Protection” awards, the Richard Akeson Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Cincinnati, and the “International Aerosol Fellow Award” which is given every two years by the International Aerosol Research Assembly, the umbrella organization of all national and discipline-specific aerosol societies.


More about Dr. Klaus Willeke:
wb01612_.gif (1079 bytes) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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wb01612_.gif (1079 bytes) BOOK: Aerosol Measurements:Principles, Techniques and Applications