Postdoctoral associates and senior researchers
- Dr. Shangchao Lin (link to personal website...)
Molecular mechanics of natural and bioisnpired nanomaterials
- Dr. Baptiste Depalle (link to personal website...)
Mineralized collagen and bone: multiscale modeling and experiment
- Dr. Alfonso Gautieri (link to personal website...)
Collagenous tissues and disease, multiscale modeling and nanomechanics
- Dr. Arun Nair (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical protein material mechanics
- Dr. Seunghwa Ryu (link to personal website...)
Multiscale modeling of mechanics of biomaterials (silk, silk-inspired and hierarchical biomimetic structures)
- Dr. Zhao Qin (link to personal website...)
Bottom-up deformation and fracture mechanics of intermediate filament proteins, intermediate filament diseases
Graduate students
- David Adler (link to personal website...)
Molecular mechanics of wood
- Laura Batty (link to personal website...)
Silk - water, structure and mechanics
- Graham Bratzel (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical bioinspired fibers and interfaces
- Dieter Brosnan Brommer (link to personal website...)
Structure and reactive mechanics of cement
- Shu-Wei Chang (link to personal website...)
Collagen materials in extreme conditions and disease
- C.T. Chen (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical assemblies of melanin: Films, bulk and tunable function
- Chia-Ching Chou (link to personal website...)
Intermediate filament protein materials; disulfide bond mechanics.
- Steven Cranford (link to personal website...)
Mechanomutable materials, multi-scale modeling and simulation. Spider web mechanics.
- Leon Dimas (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical mineralized natural and synthetic materials
- Tristan Giesa (link to personal website...)
Mathematics of hierarchical biological systems; category theory, graph theory
- Greta Gronau (link to personal website...)
Structure and mechanics of spider silk
- Denvid Lau (link to personal website...)
Polymer-silica interfaces
- Flavia Libonati (link to personal website...)
Molecular based modeling of bone nanocomposite
- Max Solar (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical structure and mechanics of amyloid protein materials
- Anna Tarakanova (link to personal website...)
Theoretical and computational materials science of biological materials; mechanics of spider webs
- Tuukka Verho (link to personal website...)
Natural and biologically inspired composites: experiment, modeling and simulation
Undergraduate students
- Douglas X. Shattuck (Research Experience for Teachers)
Hierarchical structure and mechanics of wood
- Stephanie Schafer (UROP)
Nanomechanics of adhesives, linking chemistry and mechanics
- Danielle Carrol* (2012 Research Science Institute)
Nanomechanics of elastin
*High school student
Group picture (July 1, 2011)
From left to right: Marygrace Aboudou, Ellie Fini, Denvid Lau, Sophie Weber, Max Solar, Monica Pate, Steven W. Cranford, Greta Gronau, Tristan Giesa, Hadass Inbar, David Spivak, Davoud Ebhrahimi, Markus J. Buehler, Nina Chou, Edgardo L. Vázquez Rodríguez, Shu-Wei Chang, Graham Bratzel, Arun Nair, Zhao Qin
Group alumni
- Jérémie Bertaud, S.M. 2009 (link to personal website...)
Mesoscale modeling of alpha-helical proteins. Graduated wth S.M. in 2009.
- Dr. Alfonso Gautieri (link to personal website...)
Collagenous tissues and disease. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2009.
- Prof. Christian Thaulow (visiting professor from NTNU, Norway)
Atomistic simulation of materials failure.
- Prof. Sinan Keten, Ph.D. 2010 (link to personal website...)
Beta-sheet rich protein materials (spider silk, amyloids). Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010. Now Assistant Professor at Northwestern Univerity.
- Dr. Theodor Ackbarow (link to personal website...)
Intermediate filament proteins and hierarchical protein structures. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010.
- Andrea Nova (link to personal website...)
Molecular simulation of protein materials. Graduated with S.M. in 2010.
- Prof. Zhiping Xu (link to personal website...)
Bioinspired hierarchical thermal and structural materials. Now Associate Professor at Tsinghua University.
- Dr. Raffaella Paparcone (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical amyloid protein materials.
- Prof. Sandra Shefelbine (Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, link to personal website...)
Bone mechanics, remodeling and disease.
- Dr. Dipanjan Sen, Ph.D. 2010 (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical metalic nancomposites, graphene nanotechnology, silicon. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010.
- Prof. Rouzbeh Shahsavari (link to personal website...)
First principles simulation of nano/geomaterials. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010.
- Dr. Melis Arslan (link to personal website...)
Biological and bioinspired fiber materials, spider silk
- Andre Garcia, S.M. 2010 (link to personal website...)
Structure and nanomechanics of diatom algae. Graduated with S.M. in 2010.
- Prof. Elham H. Fini (visiting Professor, North Carolina A&T University)
Molecular modeling of bio-inspired asphalt
- Hadass Inbar* (2011 Research Science Institute)
Protein-particle interactions in bone and other biomaterials
*High school student
Former group members
- Rhonda Jack (MSRP)
- Jessica Duran (MSRP)
- Maya Srinivasan (National Science Foundation REU)
- Lori Ferriss (UROP)
- Andre Garcia (undergraduate researcher, MIT Summer Research Program, MSRP)
- Huanan Zhang (Paul E. Gray (1954) UROP student)
- Andrea Fabre (UROP student)
- Xuefeng Chen (UROP)
- Dr. Nils Brödling (visiting graduate student), now at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
- Harvey Tang (UROP student)
- Cindy X. Wang (UROP student)
- Talal A Al-Mulla (UROP student)
- Ryan King (UROP student)
- Evripides Loukaides (UROP student)
- Gabriel T Bujokas (UROP student)
- Sophie Wong (UROP student)
- Alan Cohen (UROP student)
- Sophie Weber (UROP)
- Lisa S. Wang (UROP student)
- Peg Huben (visiting High School teacher of Somerville High School, MA; MIT's RET program)
- Ken Van Tilburg (UROP)
- Lori Ferris (UROP)
- Joshua Hester (UROP) (link to personal website...)
- Britni Ihle (UROP) (link to personal website...)
- Daniel D. Jimenez
- Rachel Zucker (UROP) (link to personal website...)
- Stella Schiefer (UROP) (link to personal website...). Now graduate student at ETH Zurich.
- Adam Talsma (UROP)
- Matthew Pires (UROP)
- Monica Pate (UROP)
- Chelsea K Lyons (UROP)
- Anna Tarakanova (National Science Foundation REU)
- Ryan Rosario (UROP)
- Anna Tarakanova (REU)
- Ibrahim Mohedas (MSRP)
- Rachel Ellison (UROP)
- Edgardo L. Vázquez Rodríguez (National Science Foundation REU)
Recent visitors
- Dr. Haimin Yao (MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
- Prof. Jan Lammerding (Harvard Medical School)
- Dr. Shyam Sunder (NIST)
- Prof. Adri van Duin (California Institute of Technology)
- Dr. David Stewart (Industrial Research, Ldt., New Zealand)
- Prof. Ulrike Wegst (Drexel University)
- Prof. Harald Herrmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
- Prof. Laurent Kreplak (Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland, now at: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)
- Prof. Michelle Oyen (Cambridge University, U.K.)
- Prof. Jadran Vrabec (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Prof. Zhigang Suo (Harvard University)
- Prof. Alexander Hartmaier (University of Erlangen, Germany)
- Prof. Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University)
- Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH)
- Prof. Nicola Pugno (Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics, Giuseppe Maria Pugno, Department of Structural Engineering - Politecnico di Torino)
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