{"id":2411,"date":"2023-05-11T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2023-05-11T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:23:47","slug":"congratulations-dr-kotb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/news\/2023\/congratulations-dr-kotb\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. Kotb!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our final year group member\u00a0Yosra Kotb\u00a0successfully defended her PhD dissertation on \u201cColloidal Stability and Adhesivity of Safe and Sustainable Polymer and Biopolymer Films\u201d.\u00a0Throughout her PhD, Yosra\u00a0achieved significant milestones by working on several projects and collaborated extensively with various industries. Additionally, she effectively represented the Velev group at several national and international conferences and symposiums and mentored many undergraduate and MS students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Yosra\u00a0starts her new corporate journey with Solvay, we wish her the very best in all her future endeavors.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.18.12-886x800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2413\" width=\"720\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.18.12-886x800.png 886w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.18.12-600x542.png 600w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.18.12-768x694.png 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.18.12-1536x1387.png 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.18.12.png 1714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Yosra with her committee members after the defense. <br>From L to R: Dr. Saad Khan, Dr. Lilian Hsiao, Dr. Yosra Kotb, Dr. Orlin D. Velev and  Dr. Jan Genzer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.17.53-1067x800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2412\" width=\"723\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.17.53-1067x800.png 1067w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.17.53-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.17.53-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.17.53-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-11-at-23.17.53-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption>Yosra and Dr. Velev after her defense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our final year group member\u00a0Yosra Kotb\u00a0successfully defended her PhD dissertation on \u201cColloidal Stability and Adhesivity of Safe and Sustainable Polymer and Biopolymer Films\u201d.\u00a0Throughout her PhD,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"first_name":[],"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}