Thin-film flows: From similarity solutions to new insights in molecular biology

Professor Howard A. Stone received a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1982 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Caltech in 1988. Following a postdoctoral year at the University of Cambridge, in 1989 he joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. In July 2009 he moved to Princeton University where he is Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Professor Stone's research interests lie at the interface of engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. He uses experiments, theory, and simulations in microfluidics, multiphase flows, electrokinetics, flows involving bacteria and biofilms. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and is past Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS. He is editor of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and serves on the editorial or advisory boards of Physical Review Fluids, Langmuir, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Soft Matter. Professor Stone received the G.K. Batchelor Prize in Fluid Dynamics in 2008 and the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the APS in 2016. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.