Petia Vlahovska

Petia M. Vlahovska is a Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University. She received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Yale University (2003) and MS in Chemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria (1994). Prior to joining Northwestern University, she was faculty at Dartmouth College and Brown University. Her research encompasses fluid dynamics, membrane biophysics, and soft matter. Prof. Vlahovska is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2019); she is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009), the David Crighton Fellowship from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK (2004), and a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to visit the Membrane Biophysics Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (2016).