Maryam Salehi - Mizzou Engineering

Maryam Salehi

Maryam Salehi

Assistant Professor

E2509 Lafferre Hall

Phone: 573.882.8351

Email: mshfp@missouri.edu

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biography

Maryam Salehi is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri. She applies her expertise in water chemistry, polymers, and surface sciences to investigate plastic pollutants’ fate within the environment and examine the contaminant transport within potable water plumbing systems. She completed her postdoc at Purdue University (2017-2018) and served as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis (2018-2022) before joining the University of Missouri.  Dr. Salehi is an NSF Early CAREER awardee investigating the plastic pollutant fate and heavy metals transport within the urban storm runoff.

Education

PhD from Purdue University
MSc from the University of South Alabama
PhD from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
MSc from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
BSc from Yazd University, Iran

Technical Focus

Contaminant fate and transport

Drinking water quality

Plastic pollution