Principle Investigator
Name: Prof. Cari Dutcher
Position: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and 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), IIT ChBE Outstanding Young Alumna Award (2020), SERDP WP Project of the Year (2021), Collegium Helveticum Senior Fellow (2022-2023)
Research Interests: Complex fluids and multiphase flows: Aerosols, emulsions, and suspensions LinkedIn Profile, Google Scholar Profile
Postdoctoral Scholars
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: 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: Musarrat Makhnun
Position: Mechanical Engineering PhD student
Education: BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), graduated in 2022.
Research Interests: Complex fluids and multiphase flow, Microfluidics.
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: Meenal Rathi
Position: Chemical Engineering PhD student
Education: B. Chem. Engg., Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (formerly UDCT)
Research interests: Interfacial rheology, Surfactants and foams, Fluid mechanics.
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
Name: Homayra Tabassum Mumu
Position: Materials Science PhD Student
Education: BSc., Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2022).
Research Interests: Nano Optics and Mechanics