Linsey C. Marr
University Distinguished Professor
Biography
Linsey Marr is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research group studies pollutants in indoor and outdoor air. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, she was one of a small number of researchers who studied viruses in the air. She is especially interested in the aerosolization of pathogens, their fate and transport in the environment, and engineering interventions to reduce airborne transmission. Marr is a MacArthur Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Areas of Interest
- Transformation and fate of pollutants in the atmosphere
- Transmission of infectious disease via aerosols
- Viruses in the built environment
- B.S. Engineering Science, Harvard, Summa cum laude, 1996
- Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2002
- Postdoctoral training in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 2002-2003
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2013-present
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2008-2013
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2003-2008
- Postdoctoral Associate, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 2002-2003
- Visiting Scientist, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology, National Center for Atmospheric Research, summer 1995 and 1996
- MacArthur Fellow, 2023
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2023
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2022
- American Geophysical Union Jacob Bjerknes Lecture, 2022
- Walter J. Weber, Jr. AEESP Frontier in Research Award, 2022
- Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2022
- UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni, 2021
- Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research, 2021
- Susanne Hering Award, American Association for Aerosol Research, 2021
- Virginia Tech Ut Prosim Scholar Award (highest honor for faculty), 2021
- Excellence in Teaching Award from the Virginia Tech Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2019
- Fellow of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, 2018
- Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan, 2017-2018
- NIH Director's New Innovator Award, 2013
- Virginia Tech Innovator Award, 2014
- Virginia Tech Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 2014
- Virginia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Board Teaching Award, 2010
- Virginia Tech Engineering Faculty Fellow, 2007
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006
- Virginia Tech Outstanding New Assistant Professor, 2006
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1996-1999
- US Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Research Fellowship, 1999-2002
- CEE 3104: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- CEE 4144: Air Resources Engineering
- CEE 5154: Air Pollution Transport and Chemistry
- CEE 5264G: Advanced Air Resources Engineering
- CEE 6114: Advanced Topics in Air Quality Engineering
- Please see my research group's homepage at http://www.air.cee.vt.edu for a more complete description of research interests and publications.
- Please see a complete list of publications at Google Scholar