Demetrios J. Moschandreas, Ph.D.

Director, Environmental Engineering Program
Professor, ENVE

Environmental Engineering Program

Office: Perlstein Hall Room 233
Phone: 312.567.3532
Fax: 312.567.8874
Email: moschandreas@iit.edu
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Expertise

Air Quality Transportt, exposure analysis, risk assessment, indoor air quality, environmental Index theory and application, sustainable environmental development

Education

B.S. from Stetson University (Physics, 1966)
M.S. from University of Kentucky (Math Statistics, 1968)
M.S. from University of Cincinnati (Physics, 1970)
Ph.D. from University of Cincinnati (Atmospheric Physics, 1972)

Research

Air Quality Transport: Modeling of emissions from Line (vehicular) and oddly shaped area, say landfills, sources to receptor sites.

Exposure Analysis: Measurement and estimation of human exposures to multiple pollutants in multiple media by way of multiple routes

Risk Assessment: Estimation of human and ecological risk and associated uncertainties using deterministic and probabilistic methods of estimation

Indoor Air quality: Measurement, analysis and interpretation of indoor air levels and associated occupant health symptoms

Environmental Index theory and application: Development and use of the Indoor Environmental Index and the Total Exposure Index to ascertain office occupant symptoms and risk reduction corrective action performance

Sustainable Environmental Development: Comprehensive comparative studies using of all sustainability criteria between certified sustainable and r conventional buildings.

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

The J.J. Wesolowski Award of the International Society for Exposure Analysis

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

Gulf War and Health: Volume 1: Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Vaccines. The National Academy of Sciences. Committee on Health Effects Associated with Exposures during the Gulf War. 2000, Washington, DC.

Indoor and Outdoor PM 10 and Associated Metals and Pesticides in Arizona. Inhalation Toxicology. 12, (supplement 1) 139-144, 2000. M.D. Lebowitz, M.K. O'Rourke, S. Rogan, J. Reses, P. Van de Water, A. Blackwell, D.J. Moschandreas, S. Gordon, G. Robertson.

Comparison of two-level and three-level classifications of moisture damaged dwellings in relation to health effects. Haverinen U, Husman T, Vahteristo M, Koskinen O, Moschandreas D, Nevalainen A, Pekkanen J. Indoor Air. 11:192-199. 2001.

Behavioral and Personal Exposures to PM 2.5 in EXPOLIS-Helsinki. J, of Atmospheric Environment. 2001. Kimmo J. Koistinen, Otto Hänninen, Tuulia Rotko, Rufus D. Edwards, Demetrios Moschandreas and Matti J. Jantunen. J. Atmos. Environ. 2001, 35(14), 2473-2481

Modeling Exposure to Particulate Matter. D.J. Moschandreas and S. Saksena. Chemosphere, 2002, Vol. 49, 9, pp. 1137-1150.

Scenario-model-parameter: a new method of cumulative risk uncertainty analysis. D.J Moschandreas and S Karuchit. Environment International, 2002, Vol.28 (4) pp.247-261

The Link between Symptoms of Office Building Occupants and In-Office Air Pollution: The Indoor Air Pollution Index. Indoor Air, 13, 332-343. 2003

Formulation and Application of an Empirical Moisture Damage Index. Haverinen U, Vahteristo M, Pekkanen J, Husman T, Nevalainen A, Moschandreas D. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 8, 303-309,2003

The Indoor Environmental Index and Its Relationship with Symptoms of Office Building Occupants. Moschandreas, D. J. and Sofuoglu , S.C. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 54, 1440-1451, 2004.

Knowledge-based and statistically modeled relationships between residential moisture damage and occupant reported health symptoms. Haverinen,U., M.Vahteristo, D. Moschandreas, A. Nevalainen, T. Husman, J. Pekkanen. Atmospheric Environment, 37, 577-585. 2004

Moisture damage in residential buildings as a function of occupant and engineer observations. Haverinen-Shaughnessy, U.,J. Pekkanene , A. Nevalainen, J. Hallo-aho, J. Koivisto, D. Moschandreas. Indoor and Build Environment . 14:2:133-140. 2005.

Risk Uncertainty Matters — an Engineer’s View. Moschandreas, D.J. and S. Karuchit. Invited Paper by International Journal of Risk Assessment Methodologies. Vol. 5, Nos. 2/3/4, 2005