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Lydia Bourouiba is a physical applied mathematician concentrating on geophysical problems, hydrodynamic turbulence, and mathematical modeling of population dynamics and disease transmission. She joined the Department of Mathematics at MIT in January 2010 as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Dr. Bourouiba completed her doctorate at McGill University, studying rotating homogeneous turbulence both theoretically and numerically. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, where she continues to focus on problems at the interface of fluid dynamics and disease transmission, elucidating fundamental physical mechanisms that shape the epidemiology and dynamics of disease transmission in human, animal, and plant populations. At MIT, she founded and directs the Fluid Dynamics Disease Transmission Laboratory, which specializes in developing advanced fluid dynamics experiments and applying biophysics and applied mathematics to understand the complex dynamics of fluid fragmentation. Her research addresses key topics in fluid physics and biophysics, including pathogen-fluid interactions, droplet formation leading to air contamination, turbulence in multiphase flows, and health-related disease transmission. Dr. Bourouiba’s work aims to uncover fundamental mechanisms that drive pathogen transmission, particularly in relation to nosocomial, respiratory, and waterborne diseases.