Shelly L. Miller, PhD, is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Environmental Engineering Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. As a part of her dedication to improving environmental quality, she consults and teaches internationally along with developing art-based engineering courses. She also leads middle and high school outreach programs that connect underrepresented groups with higher education opportunities.

Shelly's research interests lie in indoor air quality, health effects and exposure to particulate air pollution, and development and evaluation of indoor air quality control measures. Dr. Miller’s current research projects include engineering controls for reducing exposures to infectious diseases, source apportionment of ambient PM2.5 and association with health effects, characterization of environmental conditions in immigrant housing, characterizing ultrafine particles that penetrate into mechanically ventilated buildings, and studying pollutants from prescribed burns and forest fires. Dr. Miller has received funding for her research program from the US EPA, CDC, NIOSH, NSF, NIH, and various private foundations and industry sponsors. 

Dr. Miller received the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of Colorado in 1996. In 2000, she received an Environmental Achievement Award from the US EPA Region 8 for her work assessing indoor air quality in schools.  Dr. Miller received her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.