Invited Speakers

Anke Lindner

Anke Lindner is a professor of physics at University Paris Cité, France and performs her research at the PMMH laboratory of the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie (ESPCI), Paris. She obtained her PhD from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris in 2000 working on interfacial instabilities in complex fluids. She has then worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, in Zurich, Switzerland and as a Post-Doctoral fellow at ESPCI. Her current research activities concern the flow of complex fluids, ranging from active matter, to suspensions and biofluids and her experimental group uses original microfabrication, microflow and particle tracking techniques to investigate fluid-structure interactions in viscous flows. She has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant in 2015 and became a fellow of the APS-DFD in November 2019. She is the Maurice Couette award winner of the French Society of Rheology 2019 and received the silver medal of the CNRS in 2021.

Randy Ewoldt

Randy H. Ewoldt is the Alexander Rankin Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He conducts fundamental research in fluid mechanics, rheology, and soft matter. This includes yield stress fluids, polymer gels, biological materials, new measurement methods, data computation, and techniques for avoiding bad data in rheology. He is the winner of numerous awards for science and teaching accomplishments including the PECASE award from the US White House and the Metzner Award from the Society of Rheology. He regularly lectures at rheology short courses in the USA and Europe.

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