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Shelley L. Anna is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Physics and Mechanical Engineering. Before joining Carnegie Mellon in 2003, she earned her B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2000. Anna has worked as a senior research engineer at Solutia Inc. and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Her research interests include multiphase microfluidics, interfacial rheology, and microscale transport phenomena. She has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2005, the George Tallman Ladd Research Award from the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in 2006, and an Honorable Mention for the Carnegie Science Award in the category of Emerging Female Scientist in 2012. In 2011, she was awarded the Russel V. Trader Career Faculty Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering, and in 2014, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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