Albert J. Valocchi received his B.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Cornell University in 1975 and did his graduate studies at Stanford University in the Department of Civil Engineering, receiving his M.S. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1981. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1981, and currently holds the rank of Professor.

Dr. Valocchi teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources engineering, groundwater hydrology and contaminant transport, groundwater modeling and numerical methods, and stochastic analysis of porous media transport.

Dr. Valocchi is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Geophysical Union, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Society for Engineering Education, and Sigma Xi. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), Advances in Water Resources, and the Vadose Zone Journal. He has also served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities.

Dr. Valocchi has received several awards in recognition of his research and teaching accomplishments. He was a Shell Faculty Career Fellow from 1984 to 1987, and he has been awarded fellowships to lecture and conduct research from NATO and the Danish Research Academy. In 2002 he received the Collins Award for Innovative Teaching from the University of Illinois College of Engineering.