Richard L. Corsi

Dr. Richard L. Corsi received his B.S. in environmental resources engineering from Humboldt State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil (and environmental) engineering from UC Davis. He was instrumental in helping develop a new environmental engineering program at the University of Guelph, and built a research program there that focused on gas-liquid mass transfer and emissions of toxic chemicals from municipal wastewater. He later joined the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).

Throughout his 24 years at UT Austin, Dr. Corsi taught numerous courses related to fluid mechanics, air pollution and indoor air quality. His research was funded by a wide range of federal, industry and non-profit sponsors, and involved several aspects of indoor air quality, including source dynamics, indoor homogeneous chemistry, pollutant-material interactions and passive control technologies for reducing human inhalation exposure to pollutants of both outdoor and indoor origin. Dr. Corsi served as director of a highly-interdisciplinary National Science Foundation's flagship interdisciplinary training program on indoor environmental science and engineering that spawned a generation of faculty engaged in research related to indoor air quality. He was also co-director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the UT School of Architecture, and department chair of CAEE. Dr. Corsi was an endowed research chair and member of UT Austin’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers and is deeply committed to the connection of teaching and research and has strived to make such connections throughout his career.