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]