Professor
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
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| Email: | silvina@rutgers.edu |
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Education
Ph. D., Physics ,Northeastern University, Boston, 1998.
Faculty Advisor: Prof. A. Widom
Thesis Topic: "Fundamentals of Friction at the Atomic Level"
M.S., Physics Northeastern University, Boston, 1994.
"Licenciatura'' in Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1992.
Honors
Pfizer Young Faculty Award $35,000, 2006.
NSF IGERT in Nanopharmaceutical, ($3.4MM), 2005.
NSF NIRT, "Environmentally Benign Mixing of Nanoparticles"($1.2MM), PI: R. Dave(NJIT), Co-PI's: S. Tomassone, S. Sundaresan, R. Pfeffer, 2005.
US Army, ($97K), Flow Properties of Energetic Granular Materials", 2005.
Merck Excellence Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Development Award, ($90,000) , 2002.
NSF NER Award, ($100,000), Continuous Manufacturing of Polymer Encapsulated Nanoparticles using FIPI, 2003.
NSF grant, BES 0201788, Title: "Nanoscale engineering of LDL Retentive Substrates", 2002. (in collaboration with P. Moghe(PI), K. Urich and Y. Lu) Amount: $297,000, Duration: 9/1/2002-8/31/2005;.
NSF NIRT, "Bio-Nano Robotic Systems using Viral Protein nano MOtors"($1 Million), Role: Co-PI (PI: C. Mavroidis) $ 1 million
- Duration: 9/1/2003-8/31/2007
2006 Teaching Excellence Award
2005 Rutgers FASIP Award for Research, Teaching and Service.
2005 NSF IGERT Co-Director of the Nanopharmaceutical Program.
2004 Rutgers FASIP Award for Research, Teaching and Service.
2002 Rutgers FASIP Award for Research, Teaching and Service.
SROA Competition, in the Tissue/Biomaterials Engineering area. "Nanosubstrates for Sequestration of Low Density Lipoproteins.", 2002 (in collaboration with P. Moghe, K. Urich,Y. Lu).
1996-1998 Northeastern University Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship