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Laura Sunberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV. 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 University, 2023
• MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2019
• BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
• BA, English, University of California, Berkeley, 2017

Interests

• Environmental fluid mechanics
• Particle transport
• Coastal oceanography