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Ivan C. Christov is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where he graduated in 2011, having also earned two master's degrees from Northwestern University and Texas A&M University, as well as a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include soft hydraulics, fluid dynamics, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and particulate multiphase processes. He is also involved in computational data-enabled science and engineering, scientific machine learning, and nonlinear waves. His work focuses on understanding fundamental research areas within solid mechanics as well as biomedical applications of particles and powders. Christov has received several accolades including the Fulbright U.S. Scholar award in 2022 and a Graduate Teaching Award from the School of Mechanical Engineering in the same year. He was also recognized as an Outstanding Engineering Instructor and Outstanding Referee for the American Physical Society in 2020. Additionally, he has held prestigious fellowships such as the Richard P. Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University.
Purdue University • West Lafayette, IN
Teaching and conducting research in Mechanical Engineering.
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