Gabriel Juarez

For More Information

• Juarez Research Group webpage

Education

• PhD, Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2009
• MS, Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2006
• BA, Physics, Cornell University, 2004

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2016 - date
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2012 - August 2015
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Jan 2010 - May 2012

Research Interests

• Engineering coral reef recovery
• Experimental soft matter
• Low Reynolds number fluid mechanics
• Microbial oil degradation
• Microfluidic rheology of complex fluids

Chapters in Books

• Fernandez, V. I., Stocker, R., and Juarez, G., "Modeling the impact of dilution on the microbial degradation time of dispersed oil in marine environments", Oilfield Microbiology, CRC Press, 215-232, (2019)

Selected Articles in Journals

• Langeslay, B. and Juarez, G. "Strain rate controls alignment in growing bacterial monolayers", Soft Matter, 20, 8468-8479 (2024)
• Langeslay, B., Fahy, W., and Juarez, G. "Stress and Alignment Response to Curved Obstacles in Growing Bacterial Monolayers", Physical Review E, 109, 054608 (2024)
• Vishwanathan, G. and Juarez, G. "Synchronous oscillatory electro-inertial focusing for microparticle manipulation", Biomicrofluidics, 17, 064105 (2023)
• Quinlan et al., "Coral larval settlement induction using tissue-associated and exuded coralline algae metabolites and the identification of putative chemical cues", Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290, 20231476 (2023)
• Hickl, V., Pamu, H., and Juarez, G. "Hydrodynamic Treadmill Reveals Reduced Rising Speeds of Oil Droplets Deformed by Marine Bacteria", Environmental Science and Technology, 57, 37, 14082–14089 (2023)
• Langeslay, B. and Juarez, G., "Microdomains and Stress Distributions in Bacterial Monolayers on Curved Interfaces", Soft Matter, 19, 3605-3613 (2023)
• Kwok, J. J., Vishwanathan, G., Park, K. S., Patel, B. B., Zhao, D., Juarez, G., and Diao, Y., "Understanding the aggregation and flow response of donor-acceptor conjugated polymers", Macromolecules, 55, 10153 - 10166 (2022)
• Hickl, V. and Juarez, G., "Tubulation and dispersion of oil by bacterial growth on droplets", Soft Matter, 18, 7217-7228 (2022)
• Levenstein, M. A., Gysbers, D. J., Marhaver, K. L., Kattom, S., Quinlan, Z. A., Tholen, H. M., Tichy, L., Kelley, L. W., Vermeij, M. A., Wagoner Johnson, A. J., and Juarez, G., "Millimeter-scale topography facilitates coral larval settlement in wave-driven oscillatory flow", PLoS ONE, 17, e0274088 (2022)
• Bhosale, Y., Vishwanathan, G., Upadhyay, G., Parthasarathy, T., Juarez, G., and Gazzola, M., "Multi-curvature viscous streaming: flow topology and particle manipulation", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2120538119 (2022)
• Hickl, V. and Juarez, G., "Effect of dispersants on the bacterial colonization of oil droplets: a microfluidic approach", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 178, 113645 (2022)
• Sharif, M. Hickl, V., Juarez, G., Di, X., Kerns, K., Sutovsky, P., Bovin, N., and Miller, D. J., "Hyperactivation is sufficient to release porcine sperm from immobilized oviduct glycans", Scientific Reports, 12, 6446 (2022)
• Fernandez, V. I., Stocker, R., and Juarez, G., "A tradeoff between encounters and bacterial consumption determines an optimal droplet size for degradation", Scientific Reports, 12, 4734 (2022)
• Levenstein, M. A., Marhaver, K. L., Quinlan, Z. A., Tholen, H. M., Tichy, L., Yus, J., Lightcap, I., Kelley, L. W., Juarez, G., Vermeij, M. J. A., and Wagoner Johnson, A. J., "Composite Substrates Reveal Inorganic Material Cues for Coral Larval Settlement", ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 10, 12, 3960-3971 (2022)
• Vishwanathan, G. and Juarez, G., "Assembly and characterization of an external driver for the generation of sub-kilohertz oscillatory flows in microchannels", Journal of Visualized Experiments (179) e63294 (2022)
• Vishwanathan, G. and Juarez, G., "Inertial focusing in planar pulsatile flows", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 921, R1 (2021)
• Vishwanathan, G. and Juarez, G., "Generation and application of sub-kilohertz oscillatory flows in microchannels", Microfluidics Nanofluidics, 24, 69 (2020)
• Vishwanathan, G. and Juarez, G., "Steady streaming flows in viscoelastic liquids", Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 271, 104143 (2019)
• Vishwanathan, G. and Juarez, G., "Steady streaming viscometry of Newtonian liquids in microfluidic devices", Phys. Fluids 31, 041701 (2019)
• Juarez, G., T. Gastopoulos, Y. Zhang, M.L. Siegel, and P.E. Arratia, "Splash control of drop impacts with geometric targets", Phys. Rev. E 85, 026319 (2012)
• Juarez, G. and P.E. Arratia, "Extensional rheology of DNA suspensions in microfluidic devices", Soft Matter, 7, 9444-9452 (2011)
• Juarez, G., K. Lu, J. Sznitman, and P.E. Arratia, "Motility of small nematodes in wet granular media", EPL 92 44002 (2010)
• Juarez, G., R.M. Lueptow, J.M. Ottino, R. Sturman, and S. Wiggins, "Mixing by cutting and shuffling", EPL 91 20003 (2010)

Honors

• Engineering Council Outstanding Advisor (AY22-23)
• Milton Van Dyke Award, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (2011)

Teaching Honors

• UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (SP24)
• UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (SP23)
• UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (SP21)
• UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (SP19)
• UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (SP18)

Recent Courses Taught

• ME 310 AE1 (ME 310 AE2, ME 310 AE3, ME 310 AL1, ME 310 OE1, ME 310 OL1) - Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics
• TAM 210 - Introduction to Statics
• TAM 211 - Statics
• TAM 537 - Experimental Fluid Mechanics