Principle Investigator
Name: Prof. Cari Dutcher
Position: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Education: NSF-AGS Postdoc, Air Quality Research Center, University of California, Davis, 2009-2013
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2004
Awards: 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2015 – 2017),
ACS-PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award (2016 – 2018),
NSF CAREER (2016 – 2021), McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2017 – 2019), AAAR Kenneth T. Whitby Award (2017), George W Taylor Career Development Award (2019)
Research Interests: Complex fluids and multiphase flows: Aerosols, emulsions, and suspensions LinkedIn Profile, Google Scholar Profile
Postdoctoral Scholars
Name: Dr. Yun Chen
Position: Mechanical Engineering Postdoc Research Associate
Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2017 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China, 2010
Research Interests: Interfacial dynamics, Fluid mechanics, Microfluidics, Drops and bubbles
PhD Students
Name: Rana Bachnak
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD student
Education: M.E. Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2018 B.E. Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2017
Research Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics, Microfluidics
Name: Maggie House
Position: Chemical Engineering PhD student
Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Research Interests: Sea spray aerosols
Name: Shihao Liu
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD student
Education: B.S., Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2017
Research Interests: Microfluidics and modeling of multiphase flows
Name: Iaroslav Makhnenko
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD student
Education: B.S., Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 2018
Research Interests: Microfluidics and experimental fluid dynamics, Fluid interface modeling
Name: Chinmayee Panigrahi
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD Student
Education: B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (2016); MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA (2019)
Research Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Microfluidics
Name: Vishal Panwar
Position: Mechanical Engineering MS Student
Education: B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India 2015
Awards: DAAD Wise Academic Exchange Internship 2014
Research Interests: Fluid Flow, Polyelectrolyte Driven flocculation and Assembly in Taylor Couette flow
Name: Priyatanu Roy
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD student
Education: M.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India 2013
B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 2011
Research Interests: Fluid flow and heat transfer in multiphase systems, Microfluidics
Google Scholar Profile, LinkedIn Profile
Name: Meenal Rathi
Position: Chemical Engineering PhD student
Education: B. Chem. Engg., Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (formerly UDCT)
Research interests: Multiphase flow, Fluid Mechanics, Microfluidics
Name: Nikhil Sethia
Position: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science PhD student
Education: B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (2018)
Research Interests: High throughput microfluidic technologies for biomedical applications
Name: Shu Yang
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD student
Education: B.E. Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2020
Research Interests: Complex fluids and multiphase flow dynamics