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Academy Evgeniy Boyko In My Free Time I was born in Siberia,
so I naturally love winter sports such as
Head of the Complex Flows ice skating and skiing. In winter I try to
and Non-Newtonian ski every chance I get. There is no better
Fluids Research Lab experience than standing at the top of a
snowy mountain, breathing in the fresh air
Where I Come From I joined and enjoying the endless white landscape
around me.
the faculty in December 2022 Inspiration The most important figure
who inspires me in life is my 90-year-old
following two and a half years of grandmother, who experienced the horrors
of war but remained optimistic and kept
post-doctoral studies in the United believing in people. From my supervisors
and other academics I met along the way, I
States: I started out at Princeton learned two important things: that anyone
who wants to be a researcher must be
University’s Department of Mechanical “sharp”; and that despite the difficulties
in research, you must always keep moving
and Aerospace Engineering; and after a forward.
year I began a second post-doc at Purdue Leeya Engel
University, with a double appointment at Head of the Bio-MEMS Lab
the schools of mechanical and chemical Where I Come From I joined the faculty
after seven years in Silicon Valley, where
engineering. I studied non-Newtonian fluid I was a visiting student researcher at UC
Berkeley and then a post-doctoral fellow at
mechanics at both institutions. Stanford University. At UC Berkeley I worked
on integrating electroactive polymers
Position I am setting up a new lab in in microfluidics. At Stanford University
I entered the fields of bio-solvents and
the faculty to research complex flows and mechanobiology.
Position I am setting
New non-Newtonian fluids. Anyone who has up the faculty’s first
Brains ever used toothpaste or struggled with bio-MEMS lab. Our
getting ketchup out of a squeeze interdisciplinary
bottle can appreciate the challenges research combines
associated with the flow of such microdevice
fluids. Our group researches the engineering and
flow and transitional phenomena of cell biology, which
fluids like these in a range of natural will allow us to conduct
situations and industrial applications innovative mechanobiology
research. We will also incorporate innovative
by using analytical modeling, numerical microscopy techniques to bring together the
cell’s microenvironment and its nanometer
simulations and quantitative comparison substructures.
Journey A year after immigrating to
of experiments. We aspire to bridge the gap Israel from New York, I began studying
physics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I
between fluid mechanics and polymer continued to a direct PhD track in materials
engineering and nanotechnologies at Tel
They’re brilliant, science, thus improving existing Aviv University, where I fell in love with
industrial applications and paving the field of solvents. Working with my
creative, swimming in the way toward new ones.
academic recognition– Journey I was born in Siberia
and immigrated to Israel with my
and eager to research family at age 12. After serving
and teach. Meet our four in the IDF as an infantry soldier,
I entered the faculty’s Reamim
new faculty members – Research and Development
program, where I graduated
magna cum laude. In the last year
of my BSc, I concurrently began
studying for my MSc, where I researched
interactions between viscous fluids,
electrical forces and elastic medium. After
one semester, I entered the direct PhD track
and was awarded the Adams Fellowship
from the Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities. I was also awarded four
scholarships for post-doctoral programs,
including the Rothschild Fellowship and the
Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholarship.
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