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Dr. Christine Gilbert (née Ikeda) is an associate professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Gilbert received her PhD from the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering in 2012. Dr. Gilbert was an assistant research professor at the U.S. Naval Academy from 2012 to 2014, an assistant professor at the University of New Orleans from 2014 to 2016, and joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in Fall 2016 as an assistant professor. Dr Gilbert has received both the ONR Young Investigator Award (YIP, 2015) and the NSF CAREER award (2020). Her research interests include experimental fluid-structure interaction near a free surface. She is a member in the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics and the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE).