Linsey C. Marr

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“For the past 12 years I feel like I’ve toiled in total obscurity working on airborne viruses. . . . It’s an interdisciplinary topic that doesn’t fall neatly into one department or field of study. I’ve struggled at times to get funding and to get papers—except now over the period of a couple of months, it became one of the hottest topics around.”

Linsey C. Marr,  “Linsey Marr shares airborne virus knowledge, Covid tips,” Virginia Tech, September 15, 2020,
https://vtx.vt.edu articles/2020/09/Marr-Sands-conversation- tips.html

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Linsey C. Marr (1975) is an engineer and international expert in aerosol science. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the dynamics of pathogens and pollutants in the air. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Marr did groundbreaking research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, calling attention to its airborne transmission. The World Health Organization and public health officials in the United States have drawn on her expertise in developing pandemic protocols. She is particularly interested in non-traditional aerosols such as engineered nanomaterials and viral pathogens, studying how they can be chemically and physically transformed in the environment. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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