Prof. Valeria Garbin

Valeria Garbin's research focuses on colloid and interface science, microscale transport phenomena, soft and biological materials -- with the ultimate goal to help develop innovative solutions for sustainable processes and products, drug delivery, bioprocessing, and advanced materials.

Academic background

Valeria Garbin is Professor of Flow and Dynamics of Soft Matter at Delft University of Technology, and head of the section Transport Phenomena. Her research focuses on microscale transport phenomena, soft and biological materials, colloid and interface science; with the overarching goal to help develop innovative solutions for sustainable processes and products. Valeria did her MSc in Physics (2003) at the University of Padova and her PhD (2007) at the University of Trieste in Italy. She was a Rubicon fellow in the Physics of Fluids group at the University of Twente (2007-2009), and a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania (2009-2012), before starting her research group at Imperial College London in 2012. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at TU Delft in 2019. Valeria has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2015), and ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2022) and an NWO Vici grant (2022), was the 2018 recipient of the McBain medal (RSC/SCI), and the 2020 recipient of the Soft Matter Lectureship (RSC).