Dr. Shelly Miller

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I am a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at theÌý.Ìý I am also a faculty member of CU's interdisciplinaryÌýEnvironmental Engineering Program. I study urban air quality and work diligently to understand the impact of air pollution on public health and the environment. I am an expert on indoor air quality, airborne infectious disease transmission, air pollution, and air cleaning technologies, as well as assessing and mitigating urban air pollution exposures in underserved communities.

My research projects include assessing and designing engineering controls such as filtration and ultraviolet germicidal irradiation for improving indoor environmental quality, reducing building energy consumption and improving health, source apportionment of PM2.5 and association with health effects, association of coarse particles with health effects in urban and rural areas, characterization of indoor environmental quality in homes, characterizing ultrafine particles that penetrate mechanically ventilated buildings, understanding the microbiology of the built environment, studying how HVAC systems play a role in infectious disease transmission, identifying sources of air toxins and noxious odors in urban communities.Ìý I have received funding for my research program from the U.S. EPA, HUD, CDC, NIOSH, NSF, NIH, ASHRAE, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and various private foundations and industry sponsors.

I received the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Colorado in 1996. In 2000, I received an Environmental Achievement Award from theÌý for my work assessing indoor air quality in schools.Ìý I received my B.S. in Applied Mathematics fromÌý and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inÌý from theÌý.

I am a member of theÌý of theÌý and also an Executive Editor forÌý. I have published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on air quality including timely papers on COVID-19 transmission and control and am the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation’s Social Justice and Environmental Quality Project in Denver.