Faculty Directory
Michael J. Miksis

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Director of MS Studies for Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech M462
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-3345Email Michael Miksis

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Departments

Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Affiliations

Mechanical Engineering

Education

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, New York University, New York, NY

M.S. Applied Mathematics, New York University, New York, NY

B.S. Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA


Research Interests

Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, materials science and biology, and in particular, microfluidics, electrohydrodynamics, and soft matter theory. Asymptotic and perturbation methods, and computational methods


Significant Recognition

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Significant Professional Service

  • SIAM Vice President for Publications, 2014-2019
  • Editor-in-Chief, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2009-2014
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Associate Editor, 2000-2003

Selected Publications

  • Reboucas, Rodrigo B.; Faizi, Hammad A.; Miksis, Michael J.; Vlahovska, Petia M., Stationary shapes of axisymmetric vesicles beyond lowest-energy configurations, Soft Matter (2024).
  • Miksis, Michael J.; Neitzel, G. Paul; Voorhees, Peter W., Interfacial Dynamics Pioneer Stephen H. Davis (1939–2021), Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (2024).
  • Wang, Zhanwen; Miksis, Michael J.; Vlahovska, Petia M., Electrostatic force on a spherical particle confined between two planar surfaces, Soft Matter (2023).
  • Zhou, Zhi; Vlahovska, Petia M.; Miksis, Michael J., Drag force on spherical particles trapped at a liquid interface, Physical Review Fluids (2022).
  • Firouznia, Mohammadhossein; Miksis, Michael J.; Vlahovska, Petia M.; Saintillan, David, Instability of a planar fluid interface under a tangential electric field in a stagnation point flow, Journal of fluid Mechanics (2022).
  • Anastasia, Irene; Ilacqua, Nicolò; Raimondi, Andrea; Lemieux, Philippe; Ghandehari-Alavijeh, Rana; Faure, Guilhem; Mekhedov, Sergei L.; Williams, Kevin J.; Caicci, Federico; Valle, Giorgio; Giacomello, Marta; Quiroga, Ariel D.; Lehner, Richard; Miksis, Michael J.; Toth, Katalin; de Aguiar Vallim, Thomas Q.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Scorrano, Luca; Pellegrini, Luca, Mitochondria-rough-ER contacts in the liver regulate systemic lipid homeostasis, Cell reports 34(11) (2021).
  • Hu, Yi; Vlahovska, Petia M.; Miksis, Michael J., Electrohydrodynamic assembly of colloidal particles on a drop interface, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 18(3):2357-2371 (2021).
  • Young, Y. N.; Mori, Yoichiro; Miksis, Michael J., Slightly deformable Darcy drop in linear flows, Physical Review Fluids 4(6) (2019).