Rodrigo Rebouças, PhD
2023 B2F Scholar
Chemical Engineering
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About
Rodrigo Rebouças will be joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at UIC in the Fall of 2023. Prior to UIC he was a postdoctoral associate at Northwestern University in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM), where his research in the group of Professor Vlahovska and Professor Miksis focused on the complex morphology of synthetic cells in response to external fields motivated by the rich dynamics of biological membranes. Rodrigo earned his PhD from Yale University where he worked with Professor Loewenberg on the flow-induced structuring of particle suspensions. Prior to Yale, Rodrigo received his MA in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro working in Professor Marcio Carvalho’s group on the dynamics of particle interactions in slot coating flows; Rodrigo received his bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Brasilia under the guidance of Professor Taygoara F. Oliveira where he conducted numerical studies on the non-Newtonian behavior of emulsion flows.
At UIC, Rodrigo’s research will aim at developing theoretical and computational models of complex fluids and soft interfaces to guide the rational design of bioinspired engineering systems. Complex fluids and soft materials comprise a broad class of passive and active systems characterized by microscopic time and length scales that dictate emergent macroscopic behavior. Applications range from nanoscale bioinspired engineering devices, e.g., self-propelled particles used as “microrobots” in targeted drug delivery, to the design of responsive materials which fall in the realm of materials science, engineering, and biophysics. Aside from research, Rodrigo is also passionate about teaching and mentoring directed to novel strategies of learning, and he is equally interested in outreach activities aimed at fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion across the field of chemical engineering and within the scientific community.