Alina Alexeenko, PhD Purdue University

Alina Alexeenko is a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Alexeenko has been collaborating broadly with industry on design and improvement of lyophilization equipment and processes since 2008 and is a founding co-director of Advanced Lyophilization Technology Hub – LyoHUB established in 2014. Alexeenko received her PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and was a WiSE post-doctoral fellow at University of Southern California from 2004 to 2006. She joined Purdue University faculty as an assistant professor in 2006. Dr. Alexeenko is an associate fellow of AIAA and served as chair of AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee for 2016-2018. She has authored over 180 journal and conference papers and is a co-inventor on 4 patents. Her research expertise is in computational rarefied gas dynamics, kinetic simulation of gases and plasmas, coupled heat and mass transfer analysis in applications to high-altitude aerothermodynamics, micropropulsion and vacuum technology.