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Education

PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech 
MS, Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 
BS, Sanitation and Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Work Experience

2023 – present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
2016 – present, Program Faculty, Environmental Engineering Program, Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
2016 – 2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
2014 – 2016, Research Scientist, Institute for Critical Science and Applied Technology, Virginia Tech.
2013 – 2014, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Critical Science and Applied Technology, Virginia Tech.
2008 – 2012, PhD Graduate Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech.
2007 – 2008, MS Graduate Research Assistant, Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil).
2004 – 2007, Lead Engineering Consultant, Laboratório de Controle da Qualidade do Ar, Brazil.
2003 – 2003, Honor's Thesis Engineering Intern, Odotech, Inc. Montreal, Canada.
2001 – 2002, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Environmental Engineering, UFSC (Brazil).

Awards (selected)

2023, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (Indonesia, 2023 – 2024).
2022, Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research, CO-Labs, Pathfinding Partnerships Category.
2022, Healthy Community Award, HomeSOS research team, Boulder County Public Health.
2022, Outstanding Research Award, Mechanical Engineering Department, CU Boulder.
2021, NSF CAREER Award.
2021, EPA STAR Early Career Award.
2019 – present, McLagan Family Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering, CU Boulder.
2018, Outstanding Young Alumni, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech.
2016, US EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA), Level III.
2012, Academic Excellence and Leadership Honor Society of Graduate Students.
2011, Interdisciplinary Research Honor Society, Founding Member.
2003, Outstanding Undergraduate Student Researcher. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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Prof. Marina (Nina) Vance is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder and she is also program faculty and Associate Director for Graduate Education in the Environmental Engineering Program at CU. Prof. Vance's research is focused on applying engineering tools to understand airborne particulate matter emitted from everyday activities with the ultimate goal to reduce human exposure. Her research group works in the laboratory and in the field to quantify aerosol sources, describe their transport and fate, and to design and evaluate mitigation strategies.  

Prof. Vance has been working with air quality for over 20 years, since 2003. She was born and raised in Florianópolis, an island in southern Brazil. After earning her ²ú²¹³¦³ó±ð±ô´Ç°ù’s degree in Environmental Engineering in Brazil, she spent 3 years working as an environmental engineering consultant, collecting and analyzing samples of odorous industrial emissions from over a dozen industries in southern Brazil (oil refineries, a paper mill, a flavor and aroma manufacurer, among others). She went back to graduate school, earning a master's degree in Environmental Engineering from her alma mater and then moved to the United States to pursue a PhD in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, where she investigated consumer products that had been enhanced with silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial properties. As a postdoc and research scientist, she was the associate director of  and the deputy director of . She then joined the faculty at CU Boulder in 2016.

When she is not at work, Nina is spending time with her two young children, her husband Eric, and their dog ABBA (like the band). She enjoys gardening, baking sourdough bread, hiking and camping in the Colorado mountains and on annual trips to Yosemite National Park, and traveling to warm places around the world.