#27 - Charles Weschler: Unpacking the Impact of Ozone on Indoor Air Quality and Health

Send us a textA converation with Charles WeschlerAfter completing his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Chicago, Dr. Weschler did postdoctoral studies with Prof. Fred Basolo at Northwestern University. In 1975 he joined Bell Laboratories as a  research scientist in the Physical Chemistry Division. He conducted research at Bell Labs and its successor institutions until 2001 being named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (1986). In 2001 he retired  from Bellcore/Telcordia and accepted positions at the Environmental & Occupational Health Science  Institute, Rutgers University, and the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical  University of Denmark. He has continued in those positions through the present. In 2010 he joined the  faculty of the Building Science department at Tsinghua University (Beijing) as an ongoing Visiting  Professor. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Rutgers School of Public Health. He was a Member of  the Committee on Air Quality in Passenger Cabins in Commercial Aircraft, National Academy of Sciences,  2000-2001; Advisor on Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed US Forces, National Academy of  Sciences, 1998-2000; Member of the Committee to Review the Structure and Performance of the Health  Effects Institute, National Academy of Sciences, 1991-1993; And Member of the Committee on Advances  in Assessing Human Exposure to Airborne Pollutants, National Academy of Sciences, 1987-1990. From  1999-2005 he served on the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board, and from 2012-2023 was an advisor for  the Sloan Foundation’s Chemistry of Indoor Environments program. He was elected to the International  Academy of Indoor Air Sciences in 1999 and received the Pettenkofer Award, its highest honor, in 2014.  He has been conferred the 2017 Haagen-Smit Prize from Atmospheric Environment; “Distinguished  Visiting Professor” at Tsinghua University (2018); “Doctor Technices Honoris Causa” from the Technical  University of Denmark (2018); and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the  Advancement of Science (2020, AAAS). We spoke about Ozone, it impacts on human health and the air chemistry in our indoor environments.And needless to say, if you go looking for information and papers on Ozone Charles Weschler if not an author will be cited somewhere. So it was a pleasuSupport the showCheck out the Air Quality Matters website for more information, updates and more. And the YouTube Channel The Air Quality Matters Podcast is brought to you in partnership with. Eurovent Farmwood Aereco Aico Ultra Protect Zehnder Group The One Take Podcast is brought to you in partnership with. SafeTraces & InBiot All great companies that share the podcast's passion for better air quality in the built environment. Supporting them helps support the show.