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Pedro M. Reis - Principal Investigator
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor
of Mechanical Engineering and
Civil and Environmental Engineering

email:  preis(at)mit(dot)edu
 
Room 1-330
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
  
Phone Office: +1 617-324-3325
Phone Lab: +1  617-715-4780
Office: 1-330
        
        Instructor, MIT, USA (2007-2010)
        CNRS Post-doc, ESPCI, Paris, France (2005-2007)
        Research Assistant, City College of New York, USA (2004-2005)

        Ph.D., Physics, Univ. of Manchester, UK (2004)
        CASM (Part III), Mathematics, Univ. of Cambridge, UK (2000)
        B. Sc. Physics, Univ. of Manchester, UK (1999)

A more detailed Curriculum Vitae can be found [here].

Link to departmental website in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Link to departmental website in Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Mechanics of Materials, Elasticity of Thin Elastic Objects, Fracture, Adhesion, Solid Foams, Granular Materials, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics.

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Arnaud Lazarus - Postdoctoral Associate (Battelle-MIT Fellow)
Email: alazarus(at)mit(dot)edu

Posdoc, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France (2009-2010)
Postdoc, LADHYX, École Polytechnique (2008-2009)
Ph.D., École Polytechnique, France (2008)
Master M2, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France (2005)
Master M1, Université Bordeaux I. France (2004)
B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Université Bordeaux I. France (2003)

A more detailed Curriculum Vitae can be found [here].

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Denis Terwagne - Postdoctocal Afiliate (Fulbright Fellow)
Email: D.Terwagne(at)mit(dot)edu


Ph.D.,  Physics, University of Liège, Belgium.
M.Sc., Physics, University of Liège, Belgium.
B.Sc.,  Physics, University of Liège, Belgium.

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Tianxiang Su - Postdoctocal Associate

Co-supervised with Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University)

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.
B.Sc., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Peking University, China.

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James Miller - Graduate Student
Email: flymile(at)mit(dot)edu

M.Sc. Civil Engineering, MIT (2008).
B.Sc. Aeronautics nad Astronautics, MIT (2006).

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Alice Nasto - Graduate Student
Email: anasto(at)mit(dot)edu

B.Sc. Physics, University of Chicago (2011).

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Miho Kitagawa - Undergraduate Student  (UROP)
Email: mkitagaw(at)mit(dot)edu

MIT Class of 2014 (Course 2A: Mechanical Engineering).

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Amy McGuire - Administrative Assistant

email:  amymcg(at)mit(dot)edu
Phone: +1 617-715-4663
Office: 1-353

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Past Lab Members:


Breanna Berry
Undergraduate Student, UROP (Summer, Fall 2011)
MIT Class of 2012 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering)




Bastiaan Florijn
Visiting Graduate Student (Spring 2011)
Master 2 Leiden University, Netherlands
now at Leiden University (Ph.D.)



Aurelie Fargette
Visiting Graduate Student (Spring 2011)
Master 1  from École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France




Jibo Wen
Undergraduate Student, UROP (Spring 2011)
MIT Class of 2013 (Course 1: Civil & Environmental Engineering)




Joséphine Mannent: 
Visiting Graduate Student, (Fall 2010)
École des Mines de Paris, France




Joel Marthelot: 
Visiting Graduate Student, (Spring 2010)
Master 2 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
now at ESPCI (Ph.D.)



Claude Perdigou:
Visiting Graduate Student, (Spring 2010)
Master 1  from École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
now at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (Ph.D.)



Owusu Ansah: Undergraduate UROP (Spring 2010).

Trevor Shannon: Undergraduate UROP (Spring 2010).