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Petia Vlahovska

  • 1666 Citations
19962021
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Research Interests

Mathematical modeling of physical and biological systems. Currently I work on problems in membrane biophysics (biomembrane electromechanics and stability, thermal shape fluctuations), complex systems and soft matter (emergent phenomena and self-organization in active matter, directed assembly, nonlinear particle dynamics). I also direct the Applied Math Lab.

Education/Academic qualification

Chemical Engineering, PhD, Yale University

… → 2003

Mechanical Engineering, MPhil, Yale University

… → 2001

MSc, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

… → 1996

ChemistrY, MSc, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

… → 1994

Chemical Engineering, MS, Yale University

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Grants 2017 2021

Joint appointment-Argonne funding for Gasper Kokot

Vlahovska, P.

UChicago Argonne, LLC, Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy

1/3/19 → 1/2/21

Project: Research project

Appointments and Schedules
Joints

Collaborative Research: Electrorotational fluid instabilities

Miksis, M. J. & Vlahovska, P.

National Science Foundation

9/1/17 → 8/31/20

Project: Research project

fluids
electrohydrodynamics
electric fields
engineering
students

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Analysis of Liposome Deformation at Nanoscale Using Resistive Pulse Sensing in Solid State Nanopores

Vlahovska, P.

National Science Foundation

7/1/17 → 8/31/20

Project: Research project

Nanopores
Liposomes
Chemical analysis
Membranes
Viruses

Collective dynamics of particles at fluid interfaces

Chopp, D. L., Miksis, M. J. & Vlahovska, P.

National Science Foundation

7/1/17 → 6/30/20

Project: Research project

fluids
proposals
trapped particles
free boundaries
students

Electromechanical Properties and Deformation of Biomembranes

Vlahovska, P.

National Science Foundation

6/1/17 → 8/31/20

Project: Research project

membranes
electric potential
cells
electric fields
biomimetics

Research Output 1996 2019

4 Citations (Scopus)

A 3D boundary integral method for the electrohydrodynamics of surfactant-covered drops

Sorgentone, C., Tornberg, A. K. & Vlahovska, P. M., Jul 15 2019, In : Journal of Computational Physics. 389, p. 111-127 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

boundary integral method
Electrohydrodynamics
Boundary Integral Method
electrohydrodynamics
Surfactant
3 Citations (Scopus)

A selective membrane-targeting repurposed antibiotic with activity against persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Kim, W., Zou, G., Hari, T. P. A., Wilt, I. K., Zhu, W., Galle, N., Faizi, H. A., Hendricks, G. L., Tori, K., Pan, W., Huang, X., Steele, A. D., Csatary, E. E., Dekarske, M. M., Rosen, J. L., De Queiroz Ribeiro, N., Lee, K., Port, J., Fuchs, B. B., Vlahovska, P. M. & 4 others, Wuest, W. M., Gao, H., Ausubel, F. M. & Mylonakis, E., Jan 1 2019, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 33, p. 16529-16534 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
Bithionol
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Staphylococcus aureus
Membranes
1 Citation (Scopus)

Bending rigidity of charged lipid bilayer membranes

Faizi, H. A., Frey, S. L., Steinkühler, J., Dimova, R. & Vlahovska, P. M., Jan 1 2019, In : Soft Matter. 15, 29, p. 6006-6013 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
Lipid bilayers
Membrane Lipids
rigidity
Rigidity
lipids

Correction: Interfacial effects on droplet dynamics in Poiseuille flow (Soft Matter (2011) 7 (7797-7804) DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05144)

Schwalbe, J. T., Phelan, F. R., Vlahovska, P. & Hudson, S. D., Jan 1 2019, In : Soft Matter. 15, 18, p. 3835-3836 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Open Access
laminar flow

Dielectric spherical particle on an interface in an applied electric field

Hu, Y., Vlahovska, P. & Miksis, M. J., Jan 1 2019, In : SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 79, 3, p. 850-875 26 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Electric Field
Electric fields
Integral equations
Contact angle
Permittivity