Niki Abbasi is a fourth year graduate student at the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She received her BEng. and MASc. degrees from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. At Princeton, Niki studies fluid mechanics and soft matter.

Bonnie Bassler is the Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intracellular communication, a process called quorum sensing. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2008.

Kathryn Hollar is the Director of Community Engagement and Diversity Outreach for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and English from North Carolina State University. She works with teachers and students of all ages to increase public engagement in science and engineering.

Paul Kaneelil is a fourth year PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University where he studies fluid mechanics. He was born and raised in India. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is passionate about teaching and outreach, and is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton.

Petros Koumoutsakos is Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Faculty Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) and Area Chair of Applied Mathematics at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research interests are on the fundamentals and applications of computing and artificial intelligence to understand, predict and optimize fluid flows in engineering, nanotechnology, and medicine.

Janine Nunes is a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University studying the controlled synthesis and fabrication of microfibers and microspheres using microfluidics. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BS and MSc from Morgan State. Janine is originally from Trinidad and Tobago.

Daniel Rosenberg is part of the talented lecture demonstration team in Harvard's Science Center whose creativity is on display each day in these lecture halls to elucidate the principles of science. Daniel Rosenberg is a 1984 Harvard College graduate and a chemist. Daniel has also applied his passion for science in other venues such as the annual Ig Nobel Ceremony held on campus.

Suin Shim is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in Princeton MAE and her B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from POSTECH (S. Korea). She likes to play piano since age 4 and enjoys finding connections between musical and fluid flows.

Ambika Somasundar is a PCCM postdoctoral fellow at Princeton. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and Bachelors in chemical engineering from the National University of Singapore. At Princeton, Ambika investigates colloidal particle penetration in bacterial biofilms.

Daniel Steinberg is the Director of Education Outreach for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. He received his PhD in Geophysics from Binghamton University in 1992, and has worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where he has remotely steered the Hubble Space Telescope. Dan currently runs many educational programs for students and teachers and the public in materials science.

Howard Stone holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and Caltech. He joined Harvard in 1989 and moved to Princeton University in 2009. His research is in the areas of fluid dynamics, materials science, and applied mathematics. He enjoys teaching and the challenge of thinking about real-world problems.

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Sara Wenzel is the Education and Outreach Programs Coordinator for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She received her MLA in Museum Studies from Harvard University Extension School in 2013 and her BA in Art History from Boston University in 2007.