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Christov Associate Professor & Fulbright U.S. Scholar , Academic Year ’22-23School of Mechanical Engineering , Purdue University Affilate of Computational Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (CIGP) Center for Particulate Products and Processes (CP 3 ) Cooling Technologies Research Center (CTRC) Institute for a Sustainable Future ( A note to prospective students. ) PhD in Applied Mathematics (June 2011) Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics , Northwestern University MS in Mathematics (May 2007) Department of Mathematics , Texas A&M University SB in Mathematics (Applied Option) (June 2005) Department of Mathematics , Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyShort bio: Dr. Christov received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 2011. Subsequently, he was awarded a highly selective NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and spent two years with the Complex Fluids Group at Princeton University. In 2013, Dr. Christov was selected as the Richard P. Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Theory and Computing at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2016, he became an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, being promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) in 2022. His leadership and contributions to society were recognized by a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2022–2023 academic year. At Purdue, Dr. Christov directs the Transport: Modeling, Numerics & Theory laboratory , where advanced mathematics is combined with state-of-the-art simulations to make progress on fundamental questions at the interface of engineering, mathematics, and physics. In 2017, Dr. Christov was named a Doctoral New Investigator by the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund . His research has also been continuously supported by the National Science Foundation . Impact: Dr. Christov’s detailed mathematical analyses of complex engineering flow problems has yielded new predictive theories and rationalized poorly understood experiments across several areas of science and engineering, ranging from rheology and mixing of complex fluids, to microscale fluid–structure interactions (pioneering the field of soft hydraulics ), to interfacial instabilities , and nonlinear mechanical waves . He publishes and disseminates his work widely: 92 journal articles (56 while at Purdue). His works have made significant impact on the scientific community, as demonstrated by their rate of citation (see Google Scholar ). In 2020, Dr. Christov was recognized by the American Physical Society as an Outstanding Referee (a lifetime achievement award), becoming only the fifth Purdue faculty to ever receive this honor. Dr. Christov’s impact as a teacher-scholar is also evidenced by the success of his mentees and group alumni , who nominated him for the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students in Mechanical Engineering award for which he was selected in 2021 . Aside from being named on the College of Engineering’s "Outstanding Engineering Teachers" list multiple times, Dr. Christov’s excellence in classroom instruction earned him the School of Mechanical Engineering’s Graduate Teaching Award in 2022. For example, his theory of the diffusion of granular materials (supported by the National Science Foundation ) resolved a paradox in soft condensed matter physics. His detailed models of microscale flow-induced deformation of soft matter (also supported by the National Science Foundation ) provided new predictive models for use in microfluidic device fabrication/design; it also led to a new micromechanical measurement technique for the elastic properties of thin films. His group has also predicted the existence of a new type of nonlinear periodic wave on the surface of ferrofluid droplets (also supported by the National Science Foundation ), making it possible to create microscopic spinning gears with controllable speed (non-invasively via an external magnetic field).Links (databases, profiles, etc.): G o o g l e scholar: profile . ORCiD: 0000-0001-8531-0531 . Web of Science™ ResearcherID: B-9418-2008 .Scopus Author ID: 23007883200 . Mathematical Reviews (MR) Author ID: 805473 . Collaboration distances (source: MathSciNet ): Erdős number ≤ 4. Feynman number ≤ 4. Batchelor number ≤ 4.GitHub: github.com/ichristov . nanoHUB: nanohub.org/members/187912 . This web page was designed and created under the latest macOS and tested with cross-platform standards-compliant browsers. If for some reason the web page is not displaying correctly, consider a W3C Standards-compliant browser such as Mozilla Firefox ® . 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