Arezoo Ardekani - Member at large

Arezoo Ardekani is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and Associate Head of Faculty Affairs. Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama, Arezoo has also received an NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology, the Society of Engineering Science (SES) Young Investigator Medal, the Sigma Xi Mid-career Research Award, and is named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar. A Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Arezoo has also received the College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards for Graduate Student Mentorship and Early Career Research, the Amelia Earhart Award, and the Society of Women Engineers Award. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine in 2009 and was a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. Her research focuses on the suspensions of particles and swimmers as well as complex fluids. Arezoo is an Associate Editor of Physical Review Fluids, an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow and the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. She was a co-chair of the 2022 APS-DFD meeting held in Indianapolis. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ComplexFlowLab/