Dr. Shelly Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and a faculty member of the interdisciplinary Environmental Engineering Program at CU. Her research interests lie in indoor air quality, urban air pollution, health effects, air pollution mitigation, and development and evaluation of indoor air quality control measures.
Recent contributions to understanding and managing COVID-19:
- Is Singing Together Safe In The Era Of Coronavirus? Not Really, Experts Say
- Your Hot-Weather Guide to Coronavirus, Air-Conditioning and Airflow
- How to use ventilation and air filtration to prevent the spread of coronavirus indoors
Her current 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 into mechanically ventilated buildings, understanding the microbiology of the built environment, studying how HVAC systems play a role in infectious disease transmission, and identifying sources of air toxics and noxious odors in urban communities. She has received funding for her research program from the US EPA, HUD, CDC, NIOSH, NSF, NIH, ASHRAE, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and various private foundations and industry sponsors.
She received her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.