Julian Marshall is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of Washington. He is the director of the UW Grand Challenges Impact Lab, and an adjunct professor in Global Health.
Marshall's research is at the intersection of air quality engineering and public health: understanding how much pollution people breathe, and how to reduce those exposures. His specific areas of focus are
(1) Mechanistic and empirical modeling of air pollution, to understand how concentrations vary in space and time, and how concentrations and health impacts would change in response to changes in emissions.
(2) Measuring and modeling air pollution exposures in low-income countries (at present, mainly India), including how engineering models and data can shed light on how to eliminate unjust disparitites.
(3) Exposure disparities: understanding who is more exposed or less exposed to air pollution, how those exposures correlate with demographic attributes such as race and income, and how exposure disparities might shift if emissions from specific sources were to increase or decrease.
Before coming to UW in 2016, Marshall was at University of Minnesota, where he founded the Masters International program in Environmental Engineering and, with Fred Rose, the Acara program in social entrepreneurship. At UW, Marshall founded the Grand Challenges Impact Lab (GCIL). Marshall recently was the dual-PI for the the 5-year $10m EPA-funded Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES). His research has been covered by The Economist, New York Times, National Geographic, Popular Mechanics, Washington Post, Fast Company, PNAS, Science, CNN, Popular Science, Scientific American, and others.
