Jordan L. Peccia is an American engineer and Professor of Environmental Engineering at Yale University. He was born in Cut Bank,MT. Since 2005,Peccia has been a member of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering faculty at Yale University,where he holds the Thomas E. Golden endowed professorship., [1] and serves as the department's Chair. [2] He is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. [3] In 2023,Peccia was named Head of Yale’s Benjamin Franklin College. [4]
Peccia’s academic work integrates the problem-solving aspects of environmental engineering with microbial genetics and public health. Contributions include determining the infectious risks associated with the land application of sewage sludge, [5] advancing exposure science on the beneficial health impacts of the indoor microbiome, [6] [7] and inventing DNA sequence-based tools for classifying the mold status of a building. [8] [9] Early in the COVID-19 pandemic,Peccia’s lab at Yale demonstrated how SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in domestic wastewater could be a leading indicator (over clinical case monitoring) of COVID-19 outbreaks. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Peccia is a member of a group of international scientists that advocated for recognizing the airborne route of transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. [15] [16] He is the founding chair of the Gordon Research Conference of the Microbiology of the Built Environment [17]
His brother is James D. Peccia III,Major General (retired),United States Air Force.
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