THOMAS LEARY



CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

U.S. Air Force

PAST POSITION

Post-doctoral researcher.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

    B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, 2004
    M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 2007
    Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, City University of New York, 2014

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • Visiting Scientist, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, June 2011-September 2013

RESEARCH PROJECT

    My research investigates hydrodynamic and mass transport of droplets and bubbles in confined geometries. The ability of microfluidics to generate, manipulate and observe individual droplets and bubbles enables precise information about interfacial properties such as surface tension and hydrodynamic slip to be interrogated by coupling experimental observations with simple theory.

    In the Ramachandran lab, I am currently using the boundary integral method to understand the dynamics of the dissolution of a train of bubbles flowing in a tube.

PUBLICATIONS

    T.F. Leary, S. Manafirasi and C. Maldarelli. "Mass transfer in the biomolecular binding of a target against probe molecules on the surface of microbeads sequestered in wells in a microfluidic cell," Lab Chip, 2015, 15, 459-477

CONFERENCES

  • T. Leary, M. Yeganeh and C. Maldarelli. "Understanding Electrocoalescence of a Two-Dimensional Arrangement of Water Droplets," International Conference on Colloids & Complex Fluids, Paris, France, October 2012.
  • T. Leary and C. Maldarelli. "Understanding Electrocoalescence of Water Droplets via Hydrodynamics," AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2012.
  • T. Leary, X. Chen, A. Couzis and C. Maldarelli. "Microfluidic Bead-Based Microarrays as a Platform to Measure Ligand-Receptor Binding Kinetics," APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 2011.
  • T. Leary, A. Couzis and C. Maldarelli. "Bead Arrays in PDMS Wells for Multiplexed Screening Assays," AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.


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