Adjunct Professor - Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Alberto has 30 years of professional experience, having spent the last two decades
as a technocrat directing air quality management, conducting policy-relevant research,
and being involved in the development of some of California's most widely recognized
air quality and climate change policies. He is a mechanical engineer with B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Davis and author/co-author
of more than 160 refereed publications and reports, including several regulatory
statements of reasons supporting California’s leading clean and zero emission vehicle
regulations. Alberto is Executive Director and Air Pollution Control Officer of
the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District and former Deputy Executive
Officer of the California Air Resources Board. He served on the Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering faculty at West Virginia University, where he still holds
an adjunct faculty appointment. His private sector experience includes work as
a Design Engineer for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical and internships with General Electric’s
Corporate Research Center, the California Energy Commission, and the UC Davis’s
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory.
He is a contributing author to the book "Ambient Combustion Ultrafine Particles
and Health" and author of the upcoming book “3 Forks in the Road. Dieselgate: the
Volkswagen cheating scandal.” Due to his role bringing VW to justice, he
appears in Germany’s recent Arte Thema #Dieselgate documentary; in the Hard NOx
first episode of the Netflix documentary Dirty Money; in Engine Trouble, the season
2 episode of the PBS series Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work; in many TV media
reports in Germany and elsewhere; and is featured in Jack Ewing’s book Faster,
Higher, Farther, The Volkswagen Scandal.
Education
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis 1997
M.S.E. Engineering, University of California, Davis 1993
B.Sc. Aeronautical Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis 1991