Tony Liss
I am delighted to announce that, following a nationwide search, Interim Dean Alexander Couzis is now the permanent Dean of the Grove School of Engineering.
Dr. Alex Couzis came to CCNY in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. He rose through the ranks to Full Professor in 2004, when he became the Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Chemical Engineering. He served as Department Chair from 2008-2013. In January of 2013, Alex went on leave from the College for five years to assume the role of Chief Technical Officer of Urban Electric Power, a NY-based clean energy company start-up that spun off from CCNY. In 2014 he was appointed CEO of UEP by its Board of Directors. Alex returned to CCNY in January of 2018, but UEP is going strong and two years ago turned its production to hand sanitizer to help with the coronavirus crisis. On July 1, 2020, Professor Couzis was appointed as Interim Dean of the Grove School, replacing Dean Barabino who left the College to become President of Olin College.
It has been my great pleasure to work closely with Dean Couzis these past seventeen months. He has shown great leadership in the Grove School, important strategic thinking about how best to deploy our scarce resources, and fresh ideas about how to advance the goals of the Grove School of Engineering. It comes as no surprise that he was very strongly supported by his engineering colleagues for the permanent deanship. Personally, I am very much looking forward to continuing to work with him.
Please join me in congratulating Dean Alex Couzis.