Congratulations for bringing together a fabulous team… congratulations to all involved, especially my former colleague and forever inspiring Belinda Akpa MADBio Lab (Dr. Belinda Akpa)

Advait developed this innovative technology in his graduate research. Join us in supporting this solution to reduce CO2 emissions and drive sustainable aviation! 🌍✈️ activate.org/praio #TechInnovation #SustainableAviation #Praio #uclasamueli #ucla #activate (2/2)

Two collaborative PhD projects available, joint with Eleonora Secchi ETH Zurich - part of the BIOMAC-BP consortium, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions DN HORIZON-MSCA-2023. For more information : jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Digital pathology & AI, led by my brother & friend Renato Umeton, Ph.D. & team. Quoting them “delve deeper into the nuances of LLMs and the challenges they might present, especially when applied to niche scientific domains requiring specialised knowledge.”

The Liquid Matter Prize 2024 of the European Physical Society for outstanding contributions to the science of liquid matter is awarded to Professor Julia Yeomans FRS, University of Oxford, UK. Congratulations!

We are incredibly excited to say Omolola “Lola” Eniola-Adefeso Prof. Lola Eniola-Adefeso has been named dean of the College of Engineering, effective Oct 16. Eniola-Adefeso is coming to UIC from the University of Michigan. Learn more about her career and journey to UIC: shorturl.at/4DItM

Looking forward to two weeks IES Cargese Excited to be among this phenomenal line-up of lecturers & have picturesque opportunity to learn from the maestros of #FoodAsSoftMatter #everythingflows #polymerphysics #InterfacialScience

Yet another splendid day IES Cargese with lectures from Gareth McKinley (MIT MechE), Peter Olmsted (Georgetown University), M.A. Fardin (Institut Jacques Monod) & L. Ramos (Labo Charles Coulomb) on #polymers, #rheometry, scaling laws & light scattering techniques! #everythingflows cc CNRS 🌍 CNRS Physique

Today IES Cargese was all devoted to Interfacial rheology, #foams & #emulsions with lectures from Jan, A. Saint-Jalmes & Vivek Sharma’s Soft Matter! The afternoon saw the first poster session... and salt-water taffy cooking with Gareth McKinley. It doesn't get any better than this! CNRS 🌍

... the day ended with V. Sharma Vivek Sharma’s Soft Matter (UIC Chem Engineering) leading a #food demo on tears & legs of #wine with great help from Laurel Kroo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)). The perfect way to start the second week of our summer school on #SoftMatter & foodstuffs! cc CNRS 🌍 CNRS Physique Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon, CNRS #everythingflows

Exciting and remarkably pedagogical lectures today IES Cargese on #Polysaccharides by R. Auzély (Cermav - UPR5301) and extensional #rheometry by V. Sharma (Vivek Sharma’s Soft Matter) this morning, followed by a lively outdoor poster session the whole afternoon! cc CNRS 🌍 CNRS Physique Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon, CNRS

All the participants were engaged in taking videos of extensional flows of various complex fluids in 3D printed devices made by Laurel Kroo to measure the neck thinning dynamics! This last food demo was run by Laurel Kroo, Gareth McKinley, & Vivek Sharma’s Soft Matter! cc CNRS 🌍 CNRS Physique

Announcing a short course on Automated Rheology and Multi-Methods Measurements, to be held in Austin, TX before the SoR Annual Meeting. Options are also available for virtual participants. Instructors are the knowledgeable Jeffrey Richards and Thibaut Divoux Thibaut Divoux.

The application for PhD IITB-Monash Research Academy is open. Along with Prof. Ravi Jagadeeshan from Monash, I have floated a project on modeling of active polymers (IMURA1198). The student will be at Monash for 1 yr. If interested Pls apply @ shorturl.at/J2so4 by 25/8. RTs appreciated.

Our latest paper, with Gareth McKinley 🙌 Well done Konstantinos Zinelis! 😀👏 #FluidDynamics of a #viscoelastic fluid dripping onto a substrate 🔗online in Soft Matter tinyurl.com/jzm4ueau #Simulations #CFD Collab: Thomas Abadie (ChemEng Bham) Imperial ChemEng MIT MechE

Beautiful work by Shravan Pradeep showing continuous transition from brittle to ductile yielding in model earth suspensions. With research spouse Doug Jerolmack . Check it out at nature.com/articles/s4146…

For high resolution 3D printing, control of the voxel (3-dimensional “pixel”) in the Z-axis is a challenge. We solve this issue using flow of naturally oxygenated (inhibited) resin through the negative space while we print, called Injection CLIP (iCLIP) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…