CURRICULUM VITAE

Michael A. Rother
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota-Duluth
1303 Ordean Court
176 Engineering Building
Duluth, MN 55812-3025
(218) 726-6154 voice; (218) 726-6907 fax
mrother@d.umn.edu

 

Education:
B.A., Classics (Greek and Latin), University of Minnesota, December 1985
B.S., Mathematics (with high distinction), University of Minnesota, August 1991
B.S., Chemical Engineering (with high distinction), University of Minnesota, August 1991
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, December 1999
        Advisor: Robert H. Davis
        Dissertation: The Effect of Interfacial Deformation on Droplet Interactions in Viscous Flows

Professional Experience:
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota-Duluth, August 2004 – Present
Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, January 2000 – July 2004
Instructor, Departments of Applied Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, and Physics, University of Colorado, August 2002 – July 2004
Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, August 2000 – February 2001
        Advisor: Victor H. Barocas
GK-12 Fellow, Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder, September 1999 – July 2000
REU Participant, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Summer 1994
United States Peace Corps Volunteer, Kingdom of Tonga, November 1991 – February 1994
Summer Undergraduate Intern, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, 1991
Summer Undergraduate Research Participant, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1990

Selected Awards and Honors:
3M National Merit Scholarship, 1980-84
CRC Press Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, 1981
Selmer Birkelo Scholarship in Classical Studies, University of Minnesota, 1985
Charles Mann Award, outstanding junior in chemical engineering, University of Minnesota, 1990
Commencement Speaker on behalf of University of Minnesota IT graduating class, 1991
University Fellowship, University of Colorado, 1994
NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined), 1995
NASA GSRP Fellowship, 1995-98
Beverly Sears Dean's Small Grant Award, University of Colorado, 1998
Graduate Student Research and Creative Work Award, University of Colorado, 1998-99
Department of Education GAANN Fellowship, 1998-99

Selected Presentations and Conference Proceedings (out of 13 total):
Rother, M. A., Kushner, J., and Davis, R. H. 1999 Experiments on buoyancy-driven interactions of deformable glycerol/water drops in castor oil. APS Meeting.

Davis, R. H., Rother, M. A., and Zinchenko, A. Z. 2000 Thermocapillary-induced phase separation with coalescence. Proceedings Fifth Microgravity Fluids Conference (NASA Publication).

Agoram, B., Rother, M. A., and Barocas, V. H. 2001 Coupled macroscopic and microscopic modeling of tissue equivalents: incorporation of orientational information into the model. ASME Bioengineering Conference.

Rother, M. A., Zinchenko, A. Z., and Davis, R. H. 2003 Surfactant effects on buoyancy-driven viscous interactions of deformable drops. AIChE Annual Meeting.

Rother, M. A., Zinchenko, A. Z., and Davis, R. H. 2004 Surfactant effects on buoyancy-driven coalescence of spherical drops. International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Publications:
Zinchenko, A. Z., Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. A novel boundary-integral algorithm for viscous interaction of deformable drops. Phys. Fluids 9, 1493-1511 (1997).

Rother, M. A., Zinchenko, A. Z., and Davis, R. H. Buoyancy-driven coalescence of slightly deformable drops. J. Fluid Mech. 346, 117-148 (1997).

Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. The effect of slight deformation on thermocapillary-driven droplet coalescence and growth. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 214, 297-318 (1999).

Zinchenko, A. Z., Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. Cusping, capture, and breakup of interacting drops by a curvatureless boundary-integral algorithm. J. Fluid Mech. 391, 249-292 (1999).

Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. The effect of slight deformation on droplet coalescence in linear flows. Phys. Fluids 13, 1178-1190 (2001).

Kushner, J., Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. Buoyancy-driven interactions of viscous drops with deforming interfaces. J. Fluid Mech. 446, 253-269 (2001).

Burkhart, B. E., Gopalkrishnan, P. V., Hudson, S. D., Jamieson, A. M., Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. Droplet growth by coalescence in binary fluid mixtures. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 098304 (2001).

Rother, M. A., Zinchenko, A. Z., and Davis, R. H. A three-dimensional boundary-integral algorithm for thermocapillary motion of deformable drops. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 245, 356-364 (2002).

Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. A simplified model for droplet growth in shear flow. AIChE J. 49, 546-548 (2003).

Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. Gravity-induced coalescence of spherical drops covered with incompressible surfactant at arbitrary Peclet number. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 270, 205-220 (2004).

Rother, M. A., and Davis, R. H. Breakup and capture of two sedimenting drops in a temperature gradient. Phys. Fluids 17, 032103 (2005).