Dvora Perahia

Biography

Dr. Perahia earned her B.Sc. from the Hebrew University in 1981. Her M.Sc. (1984) and Ph.D. (1991), awarded from the Weizmann Institute of Science with Professor Zeev Luz, focused on NMR in soft materials. After graduating she specialized in polymer physics, first with Dr. Jacob Klein at the Weizmann institute (1991-1992), and then with Dr. Sunil K. Sinha at Exxon R&E in New Jersey (1992-1996), focusing on resolving forces and structure of polymers and complex fluids, with X-rays. She spent an additional year at the Physics Department, Princeton University before joining the Chemistry Department, Clemson University in 1997. Dr. Perahia is also a member of the Physics Department, and was awarded an honorary position at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology in Beijing, China. Dr. Perahia became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013.

Research Interest

Dr. Perahia’s research is an interdisciplinary effort to correlate the chemistries of polymers and complex fluids with their structure and dynamics that enable a large range of technologies from drug delivery and bio-sensors to clean energy and nano electronics. The research group has an experimental and computational sub groups with some individuals involved in both.