LauraÌýSunberg

  • Assistant Professor
  • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
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Laura Sunberg will be joining INSTAAR and CEAE as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025

Environmental fluid mechanics • Coastal oceanography • Particle transport

Influence of environmentally induced changes on the transport and fate of microplastics at a regional scale.

Sunberg was recently a postdoctoral researcher at INSTAAR, during which she investigated microplastic transport and biofouling using numerical modeling.ÌýShe is an expert in environmental fluid mechanics – her novel laboratory experiments in microplastic transport through waves and currents and firebrand transport in canopy-plume systems have yielded important results.

In her new faculty role at INSTAAR, Sunberg will grow her research program in environmental particle transport, contribute to the Directorate, teach courses in CEAE, and participate in local outreach activities.Ìý

Education

  • PhD (Environmental Engineering): Stanford University, 2023
  • BS (Civil & Environmental Engineering): University of California, Berkeley, 2017
  • BA (English): University of California, Berkeley, 2017Ìý

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