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Laura Sunberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder. Her research investigates the transport of particles such as microplastics and firebrands in environmental flows through laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. Prior to beginning her faculty position, Sunberg was a postdoctoral scholar supported by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at CU Boulder.

Education

• PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 2023
• MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 2019
• BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Berkeley, 2017
• BA, English, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Berkeley, 2017

Interests

• Environmental fluid mechanics
• Particle transport
• Coastal oceanography