Petia Mladenova Vlahovska[1] (born circa 1973) is a Bulgarian engineer specializing in biophysics and fluid mechanics. A 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society and 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she is a professor at the McCormick School of Engineering Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics.[2]
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| Born | 1972 or 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Occupation | Engineer |
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| Thesis | Dynamics of a surfactant-covered drop and the non-Newtonian rheology of emulsions (2003) |
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Biography
editVlahovska was born in around 1973 to engineer parents.[3] Moving from her native northern Bulgaria,[3] she obtained her MSc (1994) in Chemistry at Sofia University, where she later started her postgraduate studies as a research associate at their Laboratory of Chemical Physics and Engineering.[4] She later moved across the Atlantic Ocean to Yale University, where she obtained her MS in Chemical Engineering (1999), MPhil in Mechanical Engineering (2001), and PhD in Chemical Engineering (2003); her doctoral dissertation Dynamics of a surfactant-covered drop and the non-Newtonian rheology of emulsions was supervised by Jerzy Blawzdziewicz and Michael Loewenberg.[4] She was later a David Crighton Fellow (2004-2005) at the University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.[4]
After visiting positions as an assistant professor at the Brown University School of Engineering (2003-2005) and a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Theory and Bio-systems Department (2005-2006), she moved to Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering in 2006 and became assistant professor.[4] In 2010, she returned to Brown, while retaining an adjunct assistant professor position at the Thayer School of Engineering until 2011 and Dartmouth's department of physics until 2012; she was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor in 2013.[4] She moved to Northwestern University (where she had been a visiting scholar from 2014 to 2015) in 2017 and was promoted there to professor in 2020.[4] At Northwestern, she has also been part of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering.[4]
She and her research group research biological and physical systems through theoretical and experimental models.[5] She teaches classes in fluid mechanics and biophysics, as well as in applied mathematics and vector calculus.[4] In 2016, she was awarded the Humboldt Research Award.[6] In 2019, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for "pioneering work on problems in interfacial flows and soft matter, including the fluid-structure interaction in Stokes flow, the mechanics of biomembranes, and electrohydrodynamics."[7] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024;[8] she intends to use the Fellowship to do research on the use of active fluids in cytological microbotics.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Petia Vlahovska". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Petia Vlahovska". www.mccormick.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ a b "New Faculty Profile: Petia Vlahovska". Brown Engineering News. Brown School of Engineering. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2024 – via Blogger.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Vlahovska, Petia M. "Curriculum vitae". Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Petia Vlahovska – Complex Fluids". sites.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Petia M. Vlahovska". Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Division of Fluid Dynamics Fellowship". American Physical Society. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Petia Vlahovska". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Paul, Marla (15 April 2024). "Six Northwestern faculty named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows". Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 October 2024.