James L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Environmnetal Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champion
Dr. Ana P. Barros is the Donald Biggar Willett Chair of Engineering and Professor and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Duke University. Her primary research interests are in Hydrology, Hydrometeorology and Environmental Physics. Her research relies on intensive field and laboratory experiments, satellite-based remote sensing, computational modeling, and environmental informatics. Dr. Barros is the past President of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union, she was Chair of Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences of AAAS, and she served in the Council of the American Meteorological Society. She served as Chief Editor of the Journal of Hydrometeorology, and she is an Editor of AGU Advances and PNAS NEXUS. Prof. Barros was elected to the UCAR Board of Trustees in 2022 and she serves in the ASCE Industry Leadership Council. She is a Fellow of AGU, AMS, ASCE and AAAS, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2019.
Academic Positions:
Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC 2021- Present
Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Prof.of Civil and Env. Eng., Duke University, 2018
James L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Env. Engineering, Duke University, 2015 - 2018
Professor, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environ., Duke University, 2013 - 2021
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT