Rate My Professor Thamires Lima

Thamires Lima serves as Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University. She is a member of the Alvarez Lab led by Professor Nicolas Javier Alvarez. Her research centers on the development and enhancement of mechanical properties along with the physicochemical investigation of materials, including recent projects on new drug-delivery systems, additive manufacturing, and self-assembly. Lima earned a BS in Physics from Universidade Federal de Sergipe in 2008, an MS in Physics from Universidade Federal do ABC in 2010, and a PhD in Physics from Universidade Federal do ABC in 2014. She completed postdoctoral positions in Chemistry at Universidade de Sao Paulo from 2014 to 2017, in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2017 to 2018, and in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University from 2019 to 2021. Her research interests encompass drug-delivery systems, physicochemistry, and the thermal and mechanical properties of polymers, foams, glasses, crystals, and complex fluids. Key publications include a 2021 paper on a mechanism for improved talc pleurodesis via foam delivery in Drug Delivery, a 2021 study on the impact of thermal history on glycylalanylglycine ethanol/water gels in the Journal of Peptide Science, a 2020 inelastic neutron scattering study of ionic liquids in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and earlier works on the phase diagram and glass transition of ionic liquids in the Journal of Molecular Structure and the Journal of Chemical Physics. In 2026, Lima contributed to research demonstrating that simple liquids exhibit a breaking point under certain conditions, a finding published in collaboration with colleagues and ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering Company that advances understanding of fluid dynamics. She has held research appointments at multiple institutions in Brazil and the United States, focusing on materials science and engineering applications.