Before Leila Mirzagholi arrived at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to begin her postdoc appointment, she had spent most of her time in academia building cosmological models to detect properties of gravitational waves in the cosmos.
MIT postdoc Leila Mirzagholi is working to understand the effects of environmental changes on global vegetation. Her latest paper shows how global warming effects the timing of autumn leaf senescence.