Shima Parsa
Assistant Professor
Shima Parsa
Assistant Professor
Education
PostDoc, Harvard University; Ph.D. Wesleyan University
Bio
Shima Parsa is an assistant professor of Physics at RIT. She is an experimental Soft Matter Physicist and her research spans from the flow of complex fluids in porous media to sedimentation in Marshland. She studies the small-scale dynamics of multi-phase fluids and investigates their impact on large-scale transport, see research website at https://people.rit.edu/spmsps/.
Shima joined RIT in 2019 after her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard in Applied Physics studying Soft Matter physics and microscale phenomena. She completed her Ph.D. in Physics at Wesleyan in 2013.
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In the News
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May 8, 2023
Squishing the barriers of physics
Four RIT faculty members are opening up soft matter physics, sometimes known as “squishy physics,” to a new generation of diverse scholars.
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October 24, 2022
Parsa named Scialog fellow
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October 17, 2022
RIT hosts Upstate NY soft matter workshop
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June 9, 2022
Team publishes article in ‘Fluids’
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January 10, 2022
Izaguirre presents at fluid dynamics meeting