Albert Valocchi

B.S. Cornell University

M.S. Stanford University

Ph. D. Stanford University

Albert J. Valocchi has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Evironmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1981. He served as the Associate Head of the Civil Engineering Department a the University of Illinois since 1981. He served as the Associate Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Illinois from 2004 to 2011, and he currently serves as an Abel Bliss Professor.

Dr. Valocchi was a Shell Faculty Career Fellow from 1984 to 1987, and he has been awarded fellowhisps to lecture and conduct research from NATO and the Danish Research Academy. In 2002 he received the Collins Award for Innovateive Teaching from the University of Illinois College of Engineering. He was named an associate fo rthe University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study from 2003-2004 and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009. Dr. Valocchi serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, the chair of the Independent Peer Review Assessment (IPRA) of Advance Simulation Capacity for Environmental Management, and a member of the Peer Review Team for Advance Simulation Capacity for Environmental Management.

He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and does research on modeling the fate and transport of reactive contaminants in the subsurface environment, numerical methods, aquifer remediation, groundwater hydrology, and mathematical applications in environmental and hydrological sciences. Dr. Valocchi has made many great contributions to the industry, but he has made time for his students a priority above all else.