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 fourth-year doctoral student. She has been selected as a Herbold Fellow, Richard A. Harvill Fellow, a Superfund Research Training Core Trainee, Carson Scholar, and the 2023-2024 Thomas G. Chapman Memorial Fellow 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. Her follow-up publication that investigated plant characteristics for efficient dust collection was accepted for publication in 2023.