Rate My Professor Petros Koutrakis

Petros Koutrakis is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has served as a professor at Harvard University since 1984. Koutrakis holds an MS and PhD and has over 40 years of experience in environmental health sciences. His research activities focus on the development of human exposure measurement techniques and the investigation of sources, transport, and the fate of air pollutants. In collaboration with colleagues, he has developed ambient particle concentrators and high volume samplers for human and animal inhalation studies, a personal ozone monitor, a continuous fine particle measurement technique, and several other sampling methods for gaseous and particulate air pollutants.

Koutrakis is the Head of the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program and the Director of the EPA/Harvard University Center for Ambient Particle Health Effects. His expertise includes human exposure assessment, ambient and indoor air pollution, environmental analytical chemistry, remote sensing, and environmental radioactivity. He has authored more than 650 peer-reviewed publications and 11 USA patents. In 2018, he received the Excellence in Exposure Science Award from the International Society of Exposure Science. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Koutrakis has shaped curricula and mentored dozens of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.