Technical Program & Organizers

The Society of Rheology 96th Annual Meeting will have thirteen thematic sessions, a mini session featuring Future of Rheology speakers, a poster session (which includes the annual Student/Post-doc Poster Competition), and the Gallery of Rheology Contests for Images and Videos. The plenary lectures will be given by Amy Shen (Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Department of Physics, Harvard University) and the 2025 Bingham Medalist. A presentation will also be given by the 2025 Metzner Awardee.

Authors should submit an abstract by Friday 16 May 2025 using the SoR Abstract Submission Web App. The planned sessions and the corresponding chairs are given below.

Colloidal Suspensions and Granular Materials

James Gilchrist
Lehigh University
Email James Gilchrist

Abhinendra Singh
Case Western Reserve University
Email Abhinendra Singh

Shravan Pradeep
University of Pennsylvania
Email Shravan Pradeep

Self-assemblies, Gels and Networks

Thibaut Divoux
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Email Thibaut Divoux

Katie Weigandt
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Email Katie Weigandt

Ria Corder
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Email Ria Corder

Polymer Solutions, Melts and Blends

Amanda Marciel
Rice University
Email Amanda Marciel

Ben Yavitt
University of Cincinnati
Email Ben Yavitt

Piyush Singh
Dow Chemical Company
Email Piyush Singh

Interfacial Rheology, Surfactants, Foams and Emulsions

Manolis Chatzigiannakis
Eindhoven University of Technology
Email Manolis Chatzigiannakis

Carlos Martinez
Purdue University
Email Carlos Martinez

Biomaterials, Bio-fluid Dynamics and Biorheology

Rae Robertson-Anderson
University of San Diego
Email Rae Robertson-Anderson

Travis W. Walker
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Email Travis W. Walker

Jairo Diaz
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email Jairo Diaz

Flow-Induced Instabilities and Non-Newtonian Fluids

Hadi Mohammadigoushki
Florida A&M University-Florida State University
Email Hadi Mohammadigoushki

Fardin Khabaz
The University of Akron
Email Fardin Khabaz

Chenxian Xu
North Carolina State University
Email Chenxian Xu

Techniques and Methods: Rheometry, Tribometry, Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Sara Hashmi
Northeastern University
Email Sara Hashmi

Jeffrey Richards
Northwestern University
Email Jeffrey Richards

Qi Li
GSK
Email Qi Li

Additive and Advanced Manufacturing

Anthony Kotula
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Email Anthony Kotula

Xiaoyu Tang
Northeastern University
Email Xiaoyu Tang

AI and ML in Rheology

Vikram Jadhao
Indiana University
Email Vikram Jadhao

Shamsheer Mahammad
Kraft Heinz Company
Email Shamsheer Mahammad

Hassan Pouraria
General Motors
Email Hassan Pouraria

Rheology and Sustainability for Energy and Production

Rekha Rao
Sandia National Lab
Email Rekha Rao

Joseph Samaniuk
Colorado School of Mines
Email Joseph Samaniuk

Phillip Irace
ISS National Lab
Email Phillip Irace

Applied Rheology for Industrial Applications

Hammad A. Faizi
Dow Chemical Company
Email Hammad A. Faizi

Antonio Perazzo
Protegera & Novaflux
Email Antonio Perazzo

Rheology for Soft Robotics and Use of Field-Responsive Materials

Laurel Kroo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Email Laurel Kroo

Ryan Poling-Skutvik
University of Rhode Island
Email Ryan Poling-Skutvik

Bhuvnesh Bharti
Louisiana State University
Email Bhuvnesh Bharti


Special Session: Rheology in Geoscience (Invited)

Sujit Datta
California Institute of Technology
Email Sujit Datta

Meng Meng
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Email Meng Meng

Stephan Kolzenburg
University at Buffalo
Email Stephan Kolzenburg


Special Session: Future of Rheology Speakers (Mini Session)

The organizers are:

Matt Helgeson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email Matt Helgeson

Elise Chen
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email Elise Chen

Arshiya Bhadu
Pennsylvania State University
Email Arshiya Bhadu


Poster Session

Prospective presenters must submit abstracts online by Friday 15 August 2025. Poster presenters will have an area of ? inches tall by ? inches wide to attach each poster to; push pins will be provided.

Participants of the Student/Post-Doc Poster Competition must upload the PDF files of their posters by Friday 12 September 2025.

Upload File

The organizers are:

Reza Foudazi
University of Oklahoma
Email Reza Foudazi

Joe Peterson
University of California Los Angeles
Email Joe Peterson

Travis Thornell
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Email Travis Thornell


Gallery of Rheology Contests

Prospective presenters of the Gallery of Rheology Contests must first submit abstracts online by Friday 15 August 2025 and then upload the files of their posters or videos at the corresponding upload sites by the deadlines specified below..

Image Session

Presenters should upload the PDF files of their posters by Friday 10 October 2025. See the Submission Guidelines tab of the Gallery of Rheology Contests page for file specifictions.

Upload Image File

The organizers for the Image Session are:

Lilian Hsiao
North Carolina State University
Email Lilian Hsiao

Kendra Erk
Purdue University
Email Kendra Erk

Seth Lindberg
Procter and Gamble
Email Seth Lindberg

Video Session

Presenters should upload the MP4 files of their videos by Friday 3 October 2025. See the Submission Guidelines tab of the Gallery of Rheology Contests page for file specifictions.

Upload Video File

The organizers for the Video Session are:

Randy Ewoldt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email Randy Ewoldt

Michelle Calabrese
University of Minnesota
Email Michelle Calabrese

Ryan Murphy
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Email Ryan Murphy