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Lydia Bourouiba

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US
Area of research
Computational Mechanics · Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Infection Control and Ventilation, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows.
h-index
31
citations
6,329
works
112
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Candidate transmission survival genome of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Splash on a liquid pool: coupled cavity–sheet unsteady dynamics
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2024cited by 11position: lastdoi
Modelling disease mitigation at mass gatherings: A case study of COVID-19 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup
PLoS Computational Biology 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Modelling Disease Mitigation at Mass Gatherings: A Case Study of COVID-19 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup
medRxiv 2023cited by 1position: middledoi
Practical Indicators for Risk of Airborne Transmission in Shared Indoor Environments and Their Application to COVID-19 Outbreaks
Environmental Science & Technology 2022cited by 197position: middledoi
Estimating social contacts in mass gatherings for disease outbreak prevention and management: case of Hajj pilgrimage
Tropical Diseases Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2022cited by 7position: middledoi
Estimating Social Contacts in Mass Gatherings for Disease Outbreak Prevention and Management (Case of Hajj Pilgrimage)
Research Square 2022cited by 0position: middledoi
Fluid Dynamics of Respiratory Infectious Diseases
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering 2021cited by 133position: firstdoi
Estimating Social Contacts in Mass Gatherings Through Agent-Based Simulation Modeling: Case of Hajj Pilgrimage
Research Square 2021cited by 2position: middledoi
Estimating Social Contacts in Mass Gatherings Through Agent-Based Simulation Modeling: Case of Hajj Pilgrimage
Research Square 2021cited by 1position: middledoi
Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions
JAMA 2020cited by 1,134position: firstdoi
Airborne or Droplet Precautions for Health Workers Treating Coronavirus Disease 2019?
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2020cited by 538position: middledoi
Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?
BMJ 2020cited by 446position: lastdoi
The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 2020cited by 370position: firstdoi
Host-to-host airborne transmission as a multiphase flow problem for science-based social distance guidelines
International Journal of Multiphase Flow 2020cited by 192position: lastdoi
Natural sources and experimental generation of bioaerosols: Challenges and perspectives
Aerosol Science and Technology 2019cited by 78position: middledoi
Ageing and burst of surface bubbles
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018cited by 147position: lastdoi
Universal Rim Thickness in Unsteady Sheet Fragmentation
Physical Review Letters 2018cited by 93position: lastdoi
Unsteady sheet fragmentation: droplet sizes and speeds
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018cited by 91position: lastdoi
Biosurfactants Change the Thinning of Contaminated Bubbles at Bacteria-Laden Water Interfaces
Physical Review Letters 2018cited by 79position: lastdoi
Drop impact on small surfaces: thickness and velocity profiles of the expanding sheet in the air
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017cited by 62position: lastdoi
Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of fluid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets
Experiments in Fluids 2016cited by 306position: lastdoi
A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes
The ISME Journal 2015cited by 271position: middledoi
Fluid fragmentation shapes rain-induced foliar disease transmission
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 2015cited by 131position: lastdoi
An analytic solution for capillary thinning and breakup of FENE-P fluids
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 2015cited by 56position: middledoi
Violent expiratory events: on coughing and sneezing
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014cited by 854position: firstdoi
Rain-induced Ejection of Pathogens from Leaves: Revisiting the Hypothesis of Splash-on-Film using High-speed Visualization
Integrative and Comparative Biology 2014cited by 76position: lastdoi
Moving with Bubbles: A Review of the Interactions between Bubbles and the Microorganisms that Surround them
Integrative and Comparative Biology 2014cited by 69position: lastdoi
Avian Influenza Spread and Transmission Dynamics
Wiley series in probability and statistics 2014cited by 2position: firstdoi

Grants

GRC Fluids and Health 2022: Fluids in Disease Transmission and Contamination
NSF2240769$30,0002022–2023PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: A Workshop on Pre-emergence and the Predictions of Rare Events in Multiscale, Complex, Dynamical Systems
NSF2114529$9,9992021–2022PIRePORTER
RAPID: Multiphase flow physics driving respiratory infectious disease transmission
NSF2026225$200,0002020–2022PIRePORTER
Fluids and Health 2019 Conference
NSF1940251$20,0002019–2020PIRePORTER
EAGER: Evaporation of mucosalivary fluid in the context of disease transmission
NSF1546990$119,5542015–2017PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Edward W. Thommes · York University6 papers (2021–2024)Nicola Luigi Bragazzi · University of Parma6 papers (2021–2024) · 6 papers (2021–2024)Zachary McCarthy · York University6 papers (2021–2024) · 6 papers (2021–2024)Mohammadali Tofighi · York University6 papers (2021–2024)Martin Grunnill · York University4 papers (2022–2024)Ghassem Tofighi · York University4 papers (2021–2022)Julien Arino · York University4 papers (2022–2024)Mahdi M. Najafabadi · York University4 papers (2021–2022)Md. Ashrafur Rahman · University of Warwick4 papers (2021–2022)Y. Wang · New York University3 papers (2017–2018)Stéphane Poulain · Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 papers (2018–2018) · 2 papers (2021–2021)Naijian Shen · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2024–2025)Trisha Greenhalgh · University of Oxford2 papers (2020–2022)Tristan Gilet · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2014–2015)John W. M. Bush · New York University2 papers (2014–2016)Linsey C. Marr · Virginia Tech2 papers (2019–2022)Raj Dandekar · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2018–2024)