Professor Anette (Peko) Hosoi has been an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (Cambridge, US) since 2006. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1997 and first came to MIT as an Applied Mathematics Instructor from 1998 until 2000. She joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2002. Hosoi is a specialist in free surface flows, surface tension, and the fluid dynamics of complex fluids. From 2004 until 2006 she was the Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the Ruth and Joel S. Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2010 MIT selected her to be a MacVicar Fellow.