Dan Luchtel, who begins his term as Faculty Senate Chair August 1, 2007, is a professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He teaches courses in toxicology; research interests include mechanisms of toxicity of gaseous and particulate air pollutants.

Professor Luchtel has been a faculty member at the University of Washington for just over 30 years, serving in faculty governance roles as Chair of the Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs and as a two-term senator.