Shelly Miller

Dr. Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also 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, control of airborne infectious diseases, and development and evaluation of indoor air quality control measures.

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. Dr. Miller has received funding for my 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 the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of Colorado in 1996. In 2000, Dr. Miller received an Environmental Achievement Award from the US EPA Region 8 for her work assessing indoor air quality in schools. She received my 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.