People
Petia M. Vlahovska
Associate professor of engineering
Email: petia.vlahovska@northwestern.edu
Phone: +1 847 491 8782
CV
Short bio: Petia M. Vlahovska received a PhD in chemical engineering from Yale (2003) and MS in chemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria (1994). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Membrane Biophysics Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. She spent ten years on the faculty at Dartmouth College and Brown University, before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 2017. Her research interests are in fluid dynamics, membrane biophysics, and soft matter. Dr. Vlahovska is the recipient of NSF Career Award, the David Crighton Fellowship from DAMPT, University of Cambridge (UK), and a Humboldt Fellowship.
Associate professor of engineering
Email: petia.vlahovska@northwestern.edu
Phone: +1 847 491 8782
CV
Short bio: Petia M. Vlahovska received a PhD in chemical engineering from Yale (2003) and MS in chemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria (1994). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Membrane Biophysics Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. She spent ten years on the faculty at Dartmouth College and Brown University, before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 2017. Her research interests are in fluid dynamics, membrane biophysics, and soft matter. Dr. Vlahovska is the recipient of NSF Career Award, the David Crighton Fellowship from DAMPT, University of Cambridge (UK), and a Humboldt Fellowship.
Current members
Gerardo Pradillo
PhD student
Electrohydrodynamics
PhD student
Electrohydrodynamics
Hammad Faizi
PhD student
Electromechanics of biomembranes
PhD student
Electromechanics of biomembranes
Cody Reeves
PhD student
Active fluids
PhD student
Active fluids
Jeremy Koch
Post-doct
Electrohydrodynamics, particles at interfaces
Post-doct
Electrohydrodynamics, particles at interfaces
Hamid Karani
Post-doc
Electrohydrodynamics
Post-doc
Electrohydrodynamics