Arezoo Ardekani
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Arezoo Motavalizadeh Ardekani | |
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 Ardekani in 2019 | |
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| Alma mater | Sharif University of Technology University of California, Irvine |
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Purdue University |
| Thesis | Particle interaction, deformation, and collision in viscous and viscoelastic fluids (2009) |
Arezoo M. Ardekani is an Iranian-American physicist who is a professor at Purdue University. Her research considers the flow of complex fluids. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.
Ardekani is from Iran. She was born in Isfahan, and was strongly passionate about becoming a scientist even from early childhood.[1] She moved to Tehran for her undergraduate studies, where she earned a bachelor's degree at the Sharif University of Technology[2] in 2003. Ardekani then attended the University of California, Irvine where she earned her master's degree in 2005 and her PhD in 2009. During her time there, Ardekani focused on particle interaction, deformation, and collision in viscous and viscoelastic fluids.[3] She joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow, where she worked with Gareth H. McKinley on the dynamics of bead formation, filament thinning, and breakup in viscoelastic jets.[1]
Career and research
Ardekani started her independent career at the University of Notre Dame in 2011.[4] She moved to Purdue University in 2014, where she leads the Complex Flow Lab.[5] She investigates complex fluids and particle transport. She combines theoretical analyses with computational simulations to understand fluid flow.
Ardekani studied the microbes that accumulate at oil spills. She identified that microbes initially move due to chemotaxis (they are attracted to the chemical trail of a food source), but subsequently hydrodynamic interaction with drops can be important.[6] Ardekani's research currently focuses on biological flows, suspension of particles and complex fluids. She is an Associate Editor of Physical Review Fluids, an Editorial Advisory Board Member of International Journal Multiphase Flow and the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.[7] In 2022, Ardekani was a co-chair of the 2022 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting held in Indianapolis. She has also served on many other committees, such as the APS Stanley Corrsin and SOR Metzner award committees.[8]
