Winner: Thomas Cubaud

Thomas CubaudAssistant professor

Thomas Cubaud has been selected to receive the Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation for his work combining educational and research activities designed to expand the scientific foundations for new and improved manipulations of highly viscous fluids at the microscale level. Cubaud, who was awarded a five-year grant for about $400,000, is an assistant professor in Stony Brook University's Mechanical Engineering Department. He also overseas Stony Brook's Microfluids and Interfacial Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.