Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental and Earth Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Wooldridge Combustion Laboratory.
[1] Wooldridge majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1989.
She went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1991 and completing her Ph.D. in 1995.
[2] The University of Michigan named Wooldridge as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2009,[3] and as Walter J. Weber, Jr.
[7] She was the 2011 winner of the ASME George Westinghouse Silver Medal,[8] and a 2013 winner of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award of the United States Department of Energy, "for the development and application of novel experimental methods that elucidate critical chemical and physical interactions during ignition, and for advancing understanding in combustion chemistry science impacting engine performance".