Claribel Acevedo-Velez

Dr. Claribel Acevedo-Vélez is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas L. Abbott. Prior to her academic position at UPRM, Dr. Acevedo-Vélez worked as an associate research scientist and project leader within the R&D organization of The Dow Chemical Company, where she specialized in surfactant formulation development for multiple applications, including consumer products and crude oil recovery. Her research interests revolve around colloids and interfacial phenomena, with a focus on the study of the interactions and assembly of surface-active materials and chemically tailored nanoparticles at interfaces to generate knowledge that can be useful for the design and development of functional materials.