Cila Herman

Cila V. Herman is an American thermal engineer from the former Yugoslavia.^[1][2] Her research has concerned heat transfer,^[1][2] the use of thermal imaging to diagnose skin cancer,^[3] refrigeration using thermoacoustic heat engines,^[1] and the electromagnetic control of bubbles in boiling liquids.^[4][2] She is retired as a professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Mechanical Engineering,^[5] where she formerly directed the Heat Transfer Lab.^[4]

Despite hoping to become a physician like her mother, Herman was pushed by her family to become an electrical engineering student at the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia.^[1] She completed a doctorate in mechanical engineering in 1992 at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, and in the same year joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty.^[1][2] After receiving a National Science Foundation CAREER Award,^[2] Herman was a 1997 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.^[1] She retired as a professor emerita in 2017.^[5]