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.

[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.

[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".