About Dr. Steinemann


Dr. Anne Steinemann is an internationally recognized expert on pollutant exposures and associated health effects, including topics of indoor air quality, consumer product testing and evaluation, exposure assessment, and healthy homes and communities.

Dr. Steinemann was most recently Professor of Civil Engineering, and Chair of Sustainable Cities, at the University of Melbourne, Australia; and Professor of Engineering, and Chair of Sustainable Infrastructure, at James Cook University, Australia. She now serves as Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering at both universities. She was previously Program Manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.C. San Diego; and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. She was also a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a visiting professor at Stanford University, Florida Institute of Technology, and Linköping University in Sweden. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Steinemann serves as adviser to governments and industries around the world, and has directed more than $24 million in competitive research funding. Her work has resulted in new federal and state legislation, agency policies, and industry practices. An interdisciplinary scholar, she has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals in engineering, sciences, policy, and public health, and is acclaimed as the highest cited scholar in her research field of fragranced consumer products, internationally.  Dr. Steinemann has received teaching awards at the college, university, and national levels, and has published two textbooks: Microeconomics for Public Decisions, and Exposure Analysis.


Dr. Steinemann has been named each year in Stanford University’s list of the "top 2% of scientists and engineers, worldwide."

In addition to academic recognition, Dr. Steinemann's research has received national and international media attention spanning six continents and more than 2,000 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and web-based outlets, including The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Public Radio, Time Magazine, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, Scientific American, U.S. News & World Report, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, SBS Australia National Public Television, Prevention Magazine, Reader's Digest, Boston Globe, MSN.com, Hindustan Times, Singapore Radio, U.K. Daily Mail, and WebMD, with a global reach exceeding 600 million people.

Dr. Steinemann cares deeply about helping people and providing scientific information to reduce exposures to potentially hazardous and often hidden pollutants, and to improve health. If you would like to support Dr. Steinemann's research, please contact her at dr.anne.steinemann@gmail.com. Thank you. 



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Steinemann CV