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Linsey C. Marr

Charles P. Lunsford Professor and University Distinguished Professor

Linsey C. Marr

Linsey C. Marr, Charles P. Lunsford Professor and University Distinguished Professor

411 Durham Hall (0246)
Blacksburg, VA, USA 24061



Program Area : Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Personal Homepage : http://air.cee.vt.edu

Biography

Linsey Marr is a University Distinguished Professor and the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. She leads the Applied Interdisciplinary Research in Air Laboratory, which applies an interdisciplinary approach to study pollutants in indoor and outdoor air. She is especially interested in emerging or non-traditional aerosols such as microorganisms and engineered nanomaterials and how they are transformed in the environment. Prior to the pandemic, she was one of a small number of scientists who studied viruses in the air. Currently, her research focuses on achieving a mechanistic understanding of influenza transmission and virus inactivation in the environment. She 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
  • Environmental and health impacts of engineered nanoparticles

  • 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
  • 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.