Dr. Howard Stone

Biography

Professor Howard Stone received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1988. He spent a postdoctoral year in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he became the Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. In 2009, he moved to Princeton University as the Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Professor Stone’s research interests focus on fluid dynamics, particularly in applications involving interface engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. He has developed original research directions using experiments, theory, and simulations to study areas such as microfluidics, multiphase flows, and flows involving bacteria biofilms. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, among other honors. He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and is currently on the editorial advisory boards of several prominent journals. He has been recognized with multiple prestigious awards and has been elected to several national and international academies for his contributions to engineering and sciences.

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