Position Title
Professor
Position Title
Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
3157 Ghausi
Bio
Dr. Miller is interested in improving the sustainability of the built environment. The Miller group focuses on designing sustainable materials with an emphasis on assessing and improving the performance of infrastructure materials, while minimizing their associated environmental impacts.The laboratory is working to develop means to robustly assess local, regional, and global burdens from materials consumption, to make advancements in alternative material resources, and to pioneer methods to tailor desired material behavior. The team works primarily with cementitious materials, bio-derived materials, and polymeric materials.
Honors and Awards
- 2023 University of California Washington Center (UCDC) "Change the World through Research" Award
- 2022 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering (in partnership with the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering)
- 2022-2027 National Science Foundation Early Career Award (CAREER)
- 2021-2024 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Early Career Scholar
- 2020-2021 University of California, Davis, Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award
- 2019-2020 Course REdesign And Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE) Fellow
- 2018-2019 UC Davis Hellman Fellow
- 2014-2016 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2015 Women in American Concrete Institute Award
- 2014 The Stanford Wood’s Institute Rising Environmental Leaders Program
- 2012-2014 Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship
- 2012-2013 Achievement Rewards for College Students Graduate Fellowship
- 2010-2012 Leavell Graduate Research Fellowship.
Publications
- A review of carbon dioxide removal through concrete carbonation: key parameters and life cycle assessment
Journal Article | Knight, K., Kane, S., Cunningham, P., Reimer, R., Miller, S. Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability, 6, 032001. 10.1088/2634-4505/ae73b3 - Geographically differentiated strategies for limestone calcined clay cement (LC 3 ) deployment rapidly enable low-carbon cement globally
Journal Article | Fan, L., Luo, C., Miller, S., LUO, Q. Environmental Research Letters, 21, 10.1088/1748-9326/ae90c3 - Resource consumption in global concrete production
Journal Article | Kane, S., Reis, D., Miller, S. Nature Sustainability, 9, 1109-1117. 10.1038/s41893-026-01858-z - A framework for ground-up life cycle assessment of novel, carbon-storing building materials
Journal Article | Kane, S., Bose, B., Hendrickson, T., Fan, J., Nordahl, S., Scown, C., Miller, S. Energy & Environmental Science, 18, 9959-9979. 10.1039/d5ee02728d - Balancing the Mechanical Performance and Environmental Sustainability of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
Journal Article | Schultz, C., Cunningham, P., Fan, J., Miller, S. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 37, 04025178. 10.1061/jmcee7.mteng-19454 - See publications and more on Aggie Experts: https://experts.ucdavis.edu/expert/l9NH557K