Lori Tunstall​

Lori E. Tunstall is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines. She earned a joint Ph.D. in Materials Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2016 and continued as a postdoctoral researcher for an additional year. Princeton distinguished Prof. Tunstall with two awards during her graduate program, the Wu Graduate Fellowship in Engineering and Princeton’s Emerging Alumni Scholars Award for 2015 – 2016.

 

Following her postdoctoral position, Prof. Tunstall joined Honeywell FM&T as a chemical engineer from 2017 to 2019, where she received the 2017 Defense Programs Award of Excellence for her contributions in solving a critical manufacturing issue. She is also the recipient of a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the NSF's most prestigious award for early-career faculty.

 

Dr. Tunstall is a leading expert in the field of biochar concrete and is chairing ASTM subcommittee C09.08, which will develop a specification for biochar use in concrete. In 2024, Dr. Tunstall founded ZeroTwelve to commercialize her university research targeted at reducing concrete’s carbon footprint. To support these efforts, Mines honored Dr. Tunstall with the first Mines Entrepreneurial Professorship in 2025.