Zahra Niroobakhsh is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (primary) and chemistry and biomedical engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Her current research interests focus on the dynamics, structure, and rheology of soft materials with a focus on the interfacial liquid-liquid systems by exploring phase diagrams, structure-properties relation, and fabrication of new (bio)materials via bottom-up self-assembly, 3D printing, and polymerization. Dr. Niroobakhsh has received several awards and grants, including ACS-PRF and two recent NSF grants. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, working with Professor Andrew Belmonte in the W. G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratories. Her Ph.D. research was about experimental investigations on the dynamics of non-Newtonian flows containing surfactants. Before her Ph.D., she obtained her M.Sc. in Mechanical and Process Engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, emphasizing Computational Fluid Mechanics. She received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran.