معرفی
Fotini Katopodes Chow is the Fred and Claire Sauer Chancellor's Chair in Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She serves as a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, focusing on numerical modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer to advance wind energy, air pollution dispersion, and cloud dynamics.
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2004
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 1999
- B.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 1998
Her research spans Large-Eddy Simulation, Wind Energy, Urban Dispersion, Wildfire Smoke Transport, and Climate Change Mitigation. She develops computational methods to improve regional climate models, atmospheric physics representations, and environmental monitoring technologies.
Her group's work on gray zone simulations addresses numerical stability in high-resolution models, while DRM turbulence closures enable efficient cloud modeling. Projects include IBM implementation for urban flows, landfill methane emissions, and wildfire smoke transport, published in journals like Chen et al. 2024 and Efstathiou et al. 2024.
- UC Berkeley Extraordinary Teaching Award (2021)
- Henry G. Houghton Award (2016)
- Presidential PECASE (2011)
- NSF CAREER Award (2007)
- Hellman Family Faculty Fund (2007)
Chow's research has secured EPA grants for landfill methane mitigation (2023) and supports operational wind energy forecasting. Her group collaborates with institutions like LLNL, University of Delaware, and UC Davis on urban air quality, drone monitoring, and complex terrain flow dynamics.
