About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich working in the Coletti Group. Before coming to Zurich, I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2022 at Princeton University working in the Deike Lab, and I earned my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in 2016.

I’ve enjoyed internships at Volvo Group Trucks Technology (2015), the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories (2016), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2017).

You can download my full CV here.

Awards & funding

2023 American Physical Society Divison of Fluid Dynamics François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, awarded for our experimental and numerical work identifying the role of capillary instabilities in bubble break-up, which was detailed in Rivière, A., Ruth, D. J., Mostert, W., Deike, L., & Perrard, S. (2022). Capillary driven fragmentation of large gas bubbles in turbulence. Physical Review Fluids, 7(8), 083602.
2020 School of Engineering and Applied Science Award for Excellence, awarded to School of Engineering and Applied Science advanced graduate students who have “performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers”
2020 Princeton University Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Day First Prize, awarded by a panel of faculty and students to one MAE graduate student for a research presentation during the annual Research Day event
2020 Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Award funding to purchase laboratory equipment to measure dissolved oxygen concentrations in multiphase turbulent flows
2015 John P. Karidis Department Head’s Award for Research, awarded by the Penn State Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering to the Mechanical Engineering student “who has made the most important contribution in forwarding the research in his or her selected area of study”