November, 2019 Petia M. Vlahovska Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208, USA email: [email protected] web: http://people.esam.northwestern.edu/~vlahovska Tel. /office/ +1 (847) 491-8782 Research Interests: fluid-structure interaction in Stokes flow, interfacial flows, electrohydrodynamics, active fluids, soft matter, rheology, mechanics of biomembranes. 1 Education 8/03 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Yale University. Thesis: “Dynamics of a surfactant-covered drop and the non-Newtonian rheology of emulsions” Advisors: Prof. Michael Loewenberg and Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz 2001 M.Phil. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University 1999 M.S. Chemical Engineering, Yale University 6/96 M.Sc. Post-graduate program in “Separation processes in the industry and environmental protection” Laboratory of Chemical Physics and Engineering (renamed to Department of Chemical Engineering), University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria Thesis: “Modeling the drying of solvent coatings on continuous webs” Advisors: Dr. Richard Aust and Prof. Franz Durst (LSTM, University of Erlangen, Germany), Prof. Krassimir Danov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) 6/94 M.Sc. Chemistry, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria) Concentration: chemical physics and theoretical chemistry Thesis: “Diffusion-controlled adsorption kinetics in micellar surfactant solutions” Advisor: Prof. Krassimir Danov 2 Professional appointments 07/17-present Associate Professor, Engineering Science and Applied Math and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering, Faculty member of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics graduate program, Northwestern University 07/13-06/17 Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Fluids and Thermal Sciences Group, Brown University 09/14-08/15 Visiting Scholar, ESAM, Northwestern University 08/10-06/13 Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Fluids and Thermal Sciences Group, Brown University 08/10-08/11 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College 08/10-08/12 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Dartmouth College 1 November, 2019 08/06-08/10 Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College 09/05-08/06 Visiting Scientist, Membrane Biophysics Group, Theory and Bio-systems Department, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany 08/03-06/05 Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University 06/96-06/97 Research Associate, Laboratory of Chemical Physics and Engineering, University of Sofia, Bulgaria 3 Honors and awards 2019 Fellow, American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics) “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” 2016 Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) 2015 Invitation to the National Academy of Engineering German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2012 Richard. B. Salomon research award, Brown University 2010 Dartmouth College nominee for the Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 2009 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, NSF 2004 David Crighton Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge (UK) 2002 Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, for outstanding performance and promise as a teacher 4. Publications 4.1 Chapters in books 1. P. M. Vlahovska “Non-equilibrium lipid membranes: stability and deformation in electric fields" in Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, Eds. Iglic and Tien, Vol 12, pp. 101-146, Elsevier 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-381266-7.00005-5 2. P. M. Vlahovska “Dynamics of membrane bound particles: capsules and vesicles” Chapter in “Low-Reynolds-Number Flows: Fluid-Structure Interactions” Eds. C. Duprat and H.A. Stone, Royal Society of Chemistry’s Series RSC Soft Matter, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781782628491-00313 3. P. M. Vlahovska and C. Misbah “Theory of vesicle dynamics in flow and electric fields” Chapter 7 in “The giant vesicle book”, Eds. R. Dimova and C. Marques, in press http://www.giantvesicles.com/ DOI 10.1201/9781315152516 4.2 Refereed journal articles 1. K. Danov, P. M. Vlahovska, T. Horozov, P. Kralchevsky, C. Dushkin, A. Mehreteab and G. Broze, “Adsorption in micellar surfactant solutions: nonlinear theory and experiment”, J. Coll. Int. Sci. 183:223-235 (1996) http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jcis.1996.0537 2 November, 2019 2. P. M. Vlahovska, K. Danov, A. Mehreteab and G. Broze, “Adsorption kinetics of ionic surfactants with detailed account for the electrostatic interactions:1. No added electrolyte”, J. Coll. Int. Sci. 192: 194-206 (1997) http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jcis.1997.4919 3. K. Danov, P. M. Vlahovska, P. Kralchevsky, A. Mehreteab and G. Broze, “Adsorption kinetics of ionic surfactants with detailed account for the electrostatic interactions: 2. Effect of the presence of electrolyte”, Colloids Surfaces A 156: 389-411 (1999) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0927-7757(99)00099-0 4. J. Blawzdziewicz, P. Vlahovska and M. Loewenberg, “Rheology of a dilute emulsion of surfactant covered spherical drops” Physica A 276: 50-85 (2000) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437199003660 5. P. Vlahovska, J. Blawzdziewicz and M. Loewenberg “Nonlinear rheology of a dilute emulsion of surfactant-covered spherical drops in time-dependent flows”, J Fluid Mech. 463: 1-24 (2002) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002008571 6. P. M. Vlahovska, J. Blawzdziewicz and M. Loewenberg “Deformation of a surfactant- covered drop in a linear flow”, Physics of Fluids 17: 103103 (2005) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2112727 7. P.M.Vlahovska and R.S.Gracia “Dynamics of a viscous vesicle in linear flows”, Physical Review E 75:016313 (2007) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.016313 8. P. M. Vlahovska, J. Blawzdziewicz and M. Loewenberg “Small-deformation theory for a surfactant-covered drop in linear flows”, J. Fluid Mech. 624:293-337 (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112008005417 9. R. Dimova, N. Bezlyepkina, M. D. Jordö, R. L. Knorr, K. A. Riske, M. Staykova, P.M.Vlahovska, T. Yamamoto, P. Yang, and R. Lipowsky “Vesicles in electric fields: some novel aspects of membrane response” Soft Matter 5:3201-3212 (2009) (review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b901963d 10. G. Danker, P. M. Vlahovska and C. Misbah, “Vesicles in Poiseuille flow” Physical Review Letters, 102 148102 (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.148102 11. P. M. Vlahovska, R. S. Gracia, S. Aranda and R. Dimova, “Electrohydrodynamic model of vesicle deformation in alternating electric fields “, Biophysical Journal, 96:4789-4803 (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.054 12. P. M. Vlahovska, T. Podgorski and C. Misbah “Vesicles and red blood cells: from individual dynamics to rheology” Comptes Rendus Physique 10:775–789 (2009) (invited review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2009.10.001 13. J. Hanna and P. M. Vlahovska “Surfactant-induced migration of a spherical drop in Stokes flow” Physics of Fluids 22: 013102 (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3277665 14. J. T. Schwalbe, P. M. Vlahovska and M. Miksis “Monolayer slip effects on the dynamics of a lipid bilayer vesicle in a viscous flow”, J. Fluid Mech. 647: 403-419 (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002211200999320X 15. P. F. Salipante and P. M. Vlahovska "Electrohydrodynamics of drops in strong uniform DC electric fields" Physics of Fluids 22: 112110 (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3507919 16. J. T. Schwalbe, F. R. Phelan Jr., P. M. Vlahovska, and S. D. Hudson “Interfacial effects on droplet dynamics in Poiseuille flow” Soft Matter 7:7797-7804 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1sm05144j correction 15:3835 – 3836 (2019) 3 November, 2019 17. P. M. Vlahovska “On the rheology of a dilute emulsion in an uniform electric field”, J. Fluid Mech. 670:481-503 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112010005379 18. J. T. Schwalbe, P. M. Vlahovska and M. J. Miksis “Lipid membrane instability and poration driven by capacitive charging” Physics of Fluids 23: 041701 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3567276 19. S. Veerapaneni, Yuan-nan Young, P. M. Vlahovska, and J. Blawzdziewicz “Dynamics of a compound vesicle” Physical Review Letters 105: 158103 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.158103 20. J.T. Schwalbe, P. M. Vlahovska and M. J. Miksis “Vesicle electrohydrodynamics” Physical Review E 83:046309 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.046309 21. P. M. Vlahovska, Y.-n.Young, G. Danker and C. Misbah, “Dynamics of a non-spherical microcapsule with incompressible interface in a shear flow” J. Fluid Mech. 678:221-247 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2011.108 22. P. F. Salipante, R. Knorr, R. Dimova, P. M. Vlahovska “Electrodeformation method for measuring the capacitance of bilayer membranes”, Soft Matter, 8:3810 - 3816 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2sm07105c 23. J. Seiwert, M.J. Miksis, and P. M. Vlahovska “Stability of biomimetic membranes in DC electric fields”, J. Fluid Mechanics, 706: 58-70 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.211 24. X. Li, P.M. Vlahovska, G. Em Karniadakis “Continuum- and particle-based modeling of shapes and dynamics of red blood cell in health and disease “, Soft Matter, 9:28 - 37 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2sm26891d 25. J. Seiwert and P. M. Vlahovska “Instability of a fluctuating membrane driven by an AC electric field”, Physical Review E, 87: 022713 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022713 26. H. He, P. F. Salipante, and P. M. Vlahovska “Electrorotation of a droplet in a uniform DC electric field”, Physics of Fluids, 25:032106 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4795021 27. L. C. McConnell, P. M. Vlahovska, M. J. Miksis “Vesicle electrohydrodynamics in DC electric fields” IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 78:797-817 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxt023 28.