Elizabeth B. Dussan V.

Dussan completed her undergraduate degree in applied mathematics from Stony Brook University^[5] in 1967. Furthermore, she completed her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1972. Her dissertation, On the Motion of a Line Common to Three Different Materials, was supervised by applied mathematician Stephen H. Davis.^[6], and was a part of her work while studying for her Ph.D.

She is retired as a Scientific Advisor for the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center,^[7][2][3] as well as having taught chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.^[8][6]

Dussan became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984, honoring her for the work and research in "spreading of liquids on solid surfaces".^[8] Following this achievement, she then became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1985 "for her deep insights into the mechanisms and the realistic modeling of phenomena involving fluid-fluid interfaces, particularly in situations in which moving contact lines and mutual fluid displacement occur".^[2]

She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 "for innovative contributions to the wetting of solids and complex flows in porous media".^[3] In 2009, she became one of the inaugural Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for her actions and contributions in wetting and flow in porous media.^[4]

In 1985, Stony Brook University awarded her their Distinguished Alumni Award as a result of her work as a Guggenheim Fellow of the American Physical Society. ^[9]