Postdoctoral associates and senior researchers
Graduate students
- Theodor Ackbarow (link to personal website...)
Intermediate filament proteins and hierarchical protein structures
- Graham Bratzel (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical bioinspired fibers and interfaces
- Steven Cranford (link to personal website...)
Mechanomutable materials, multi-scale modeling and simulation
- Davoud Ebrahimi (link to personal website...)
Atomistic modeling of natural materials
- Andre Garcia (link to personal website...)
Carbon nanotube and graphene nanotechnology
- Sinan Keten (link to personal website...)
Beta-sheet rich protein materials (spider silk, amyloids)
- Denvid Lau (link to personal website...)
Polymer-silica interfaces
- Andrea Nova (link to personal website...)
Molecular simulation of protein materials
- Dipanjan Sen (link to personal website...)
Hierarchical metalic nancomposites, graphene nanotechnology, silicon
- Rouzbeh Shahsavari (jointly advised) (link to personal website...)
First principles simulation of nano/geomaterials
- Chakrapan Tuakta (jointly advised) (link to personal website...)
Interfacial fracture in composites
- Zhao Qin (link to personal website...)
Bottom-up deformation and fracture mechanics of intermediate filament proteins, intermediate filament diseases
- Sebastien Uzel (link to personal website...)
Multi-scale simulation of collagenous tissues and genetic disease
- Elizabeth Wood (jointly advised) (link to personal website...)
De novo protein materials, nanotechnology
Undergraduate students
- Matthew Pireles (UROP)
Amyloid biophysics and mechanics
- Adam Talsma (UROP)
Intermediate filament simulation and experiment
- Stella Schiefer (UROP) (link to personal website...)
Brittle-to-ductile transition in silicon
- Britni Ihle (UROP) (link to personal website...)
Nanomechanics of spider silk
- Daniel D. Jimenez (link to personal website...)
Mesoscale modeling of failure of alpha-helical protein domains
- Joshua Hester (UROP) (link to personal website...)
Mesoscale modeling of failure of alpha-helical protein domains
- J. Fernando Rodriguez (UROP)
Protein nanotubes: structure and mechanics
- Rachel Zucker (UROP) (link to personal website...)
Reactive simulation of shock loading of silica
Group picture
From left to right: First row: Zhiping Xu, Zhao Qin, Dipanjan Sen, Jeremie Bertaud, Rachel Zucker, Christian Thaulow, Andre Garcia, Sinan Keten, Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Steve Cranford, Sebastien Uze. Second row: Raffaella Paparcone, Britni Ihle, Markus Buehler, Lori Ferriss, Stella Schieffer. Third row: Maya Srinivasan, Theodor Ackbarow, Alfonso Gautieri, Joshua Hester, Rhonda Jack.
Group alumni
- Jérémie Bertaud, S.M. '09 (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 NTSU, Norway)
Atomistic simulation of materials failure
Former group members
- Rhonda Jack (MSRP)
- Jessica Duran (MSRP)
- Maya Srinivasan (CMS-REU
- Lori Ferriss (UROP)
- Andre Garcia (undergraduate researcher, MIT Summer Research Program, MSRP)
- Huanan Zhang (Paul E. Gray (1954) 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)
- Ryan King (UROP student)
- Evripides Loukaides (UROP student)
- Gabriel T Bujokas (UROP student)
- Sophie Wong (UROP student)
- Alan Cohen (UROP student)
- 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)
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)
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