Kira Zeider

Kira Zeider is a Tucson native who obtained double bachelor's degrees in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona (UA). She continued into the UA’s Chemical Engineering Graduate Program, where she is a third-year doctoral student. She has been selected as a Herbold Fellow, Richard A. Harvill Fellow, and Superfund Research Training Core Trainee for her multi-disciplinary research in aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions and mining impacts on local communities. Her 2021 citizen-science publication on utilizing plant leaves as low-cost air quality monitors was selected as one of 35 NIEHS Papers of the Year.