Lara A. Gundel

Lara Gundel received the Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. She is currently a Staff Scientist with the Environmental Technologies Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a Co-Leader of the Air Microfluidics Group, a collaboration of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, LBNL, and Argonne National Laboratory. At LBNL, she leads interdisciplinary projects that develop new approaches for characterizing air pollutants for public health-related applications. In 2000, she received an R&D 100 Award for a related invention. After establishing proof-of-concept for miniaturization of real-time sensors for mass concentration of fine particulate matter, her team began collaborating with the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center in 2005 to develop microfabricated sensors for airborne particles.