Professor
Northwestern University
Vlahovska received a PhD in chemical engineering from Yale (2003) and MS in chemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria (1994). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Membrane Biophysics Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and spent ten years on the faculty at Dartmouth
College and Brown University, before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 2017. Her research is in fluid dynamics, membrane biophysics, and soft matter. Dr. Vlahovska is the recipient of David Crighton Fellowship (2005), NSF Career Award (2009) and a Humboldt Fellowship (2016). In 2019, she was elected fellow of the American Physical Society.