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Professor

Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Affiliations

Courtesy Faculty, Department of Physics

Center for Complex Fluids Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2000

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship

M.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 1996

B.S., Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009-2013

Assistant Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering (since 9/08) and Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003-2009

Postdoctoral Fellow in Fluid Dynamics and Complex Fluids, Harvard University, 2001–2003

Senior Research Engineer, Solutia, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts, 2000-2001

Awards and Honors

Honorable Mention, Emerging Female Scientist, Carnegie Science Awards, 2012

Russell V. Trader Career Faculty Fellowship, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, 2011-2013

George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2005-2011

Achievement Award, Solutia, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts, January 2001

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995 to 2000

Richard E. Cutkosky Alumni Award, Dept. of Physics, CMU, 1995

Andrew Carnegie Society Presidential Scholar, 1994 to 1995

Professional Activities

Chair, Fluid Mechanics Programming Committee, Area 01J Fundamentals in Fluid Mechanics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2012 – 2014

Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics, 2015. With Jonathan Posner.

Vice Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics, June 2013. With Jonathan Posner.

Technical Program Organizer, Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA, February 10 – 14, 2013. With Carlos Rinaldi.

Member at Large, Executive Committee, Society of Rheology, 2011-2013

Chair, Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award Selection Committee, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2012 – 2013

Vice Chair, Fluid Mechanics Programming Committee, Area 01J Fundamentals in Fluid Mechanics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2010 – 2012

Chair, Membership Committee, Society of Rheology, 2008-2011

Meeting Program Coordinator, Area 01J Fundamentals in Fluid Mechanics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, for the AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.

Participant, Workshop “Complex Fluids and Complex Flows” at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 12 – 16, 2009 (“Flowing Complex Fluids: Fluid Mechanics-Interaction of Microstructure and Flow”) and December 5 – 12, 2009 (“Microfluidics: Electrokinetic and Interfacial Phenomena”)

Participant, National Academies of Engineering 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, September 18-20, 2008.

Participant, National Science Foundation Workshop for Frontiers in Transport Phenomena Research & Education: Energy Systems, Biological Systems, Security, Information Technology & Nanotechnology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 17-18, 2007.