Prof. Lydia Bourouiba

Professor Bourouiba directs a Biological Safety Level 2+ Laboratory with unique capabilities of control of airflow, moisture, and temperature conditions. The laboratory joins uniquely physical interfacial flows and microbiology to understand and develop new methods of control of contamination at various scales.

The laboratory specializes in developing innovative imaging techniques to elucidate fundamental mechanisms shaping interfacial flows, fluid-fragmentation and sprays, fluid-surface interactions and wetting, multiphase and complex flows and transport, including of biological organisms in a range of contexts as they pertain to health and contamination.

Professor Bourouiba is interested in a range of applications, spanning a range of industries, involving both modeling and data and experimental projects involving spray, atomization, drug delivery and monitoring, and health and decontamination or contamination mitigation solutions.