Skip to main content

Nicole C Rockey

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wilkinson 213, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
121 Hudson Hall, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


Environmental persistence of endemic and emerging pathogens, mechanisms of virus inactivation, environmental virology, development and identification of engineering controls to reduce infectious disease burden, detection of microbes in air, water, and on surfaces

Selected Grants


NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027

Establishing The Kinetics Of Environmentally Mediated Avian Influenza Virus Decay

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Agriculture · 2025 - 2027