Deb Niemeier

Deb A. Niemeier is an American transportation engineer known for her work on measuring vehicle emissions and its impact on the air quality in nearby neighborhoods, on the effects of carbon dioxide on climate change,[1] on gender differences in commuting behavior, and on the quantification of transport accessibility. She is James & Alice B. Clark Distinguished Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Deb Niemeier, 2014

Education and career

Niemeier is originally from Texas,[2] and majored in civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1982.[3] After working as a consultant in Maine,[2] she returned to graduate school at the University of Washington, where she completed a Ph.D. in 1994[4] under the supervision of Scott Rutherford.[2]

She became a faculty member in civil engineering at the University of California, Davis, where her service included terms as department chair, Director of the John Muir Institute, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and editor-in-chief for the journals Sustainable Cities and Society and Transportation Research Part A.[4] She moved from Davis to the University of Maryland as Clark Professor in 2019.[5]

Recognition

Niemeier was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.[5] In 2017, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for developing groundbreaking tools to characterize the impact of transportation emissions on air quality and environmental justice".[2][6] In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[7]

References
  1. "A bumpy shift from ice house to greenhouse", Phys.org, 4 January 2007, retrieved 2022-05-21
  2. Alumna Deb Niemeier Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, University of Washington Civil & Environmental Engineering, 8 March 2017, retrieved 2020-12-10
  3. "Deb A. Niemeier", Academy of Distinguished Alumni, University of Texas at Austin Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
  4. Biography, University of California, Davis, retrieved 2020-12-10
  5. UMD Names Deb Niemeier as Inaugural Clark Distinguished Chair, University of Maryland, College Park, retrieved 2020-12-10
  6. "Professor Deb A. Niemeier", Members, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2020-12-10
  7. "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2021", Blog, American Philosophical Society, 7 May 2021
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