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Shelley Anna is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Physics and Mechanical Engineering. She joined Carnegie Mellon in 2003 after receiving her B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. Prior to her academic career, Anna worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Solutia Inc. and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Her research interests focus on multiphase microfluidics, interfacial rheology, and microscale transport phenomena. In recognition of her scholarly work, she received the NSF CAREER award in 2005 and the George Tallman Ladd Research Award in 2006 from the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, she was honored with an Honorable Mention for the Carnegie Science Award in 2012 in the Emerging Female Scientist category and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014.
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