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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

Postdoc, 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)

[Personal Homepage]

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Denis Terwagne - Postdoctocal Associate
Email: D.Terwagne(at)mit(dot)edu


Fulbright Fellow (2011-2012)
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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Miha Brojan - Postdoctocal  Fulbright Fellow
Email: mbrojan(at)mit(dot)edu


Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.



[Personal Homepage]

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Tianxiang Su - Postdoctocal Associate
Email: su(dot)tianxiang(at)gmail(dot)com

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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Romain Lagrange - Instructor in Applied Mathematics
Email: romain(dot)g(dot)lagrange(at)gmail(dot)com

Postdoc, Postdoctoral Associate, IFPEN, Lyon, France (2010-2011)
Teaching Assistant, Université Paul Cézanne, Marseille, France (2007-2009)
Ph.D.,  Aix-Marseille Université, France (2009)
M.Sc., Aix-Marseille Université, France (2006)
M.Eng., Centrale Marseille, France (2006)

[Personal Homepage]

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James Miller - Graduate Student (CEE)
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  (MechE)
Email: anasto(at)mit(dot)edu

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

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Khalid Jawed - Graduate Student (MechE)
Email: khalidjm(at)mit(dot)edu

B.S.E. Aerospace Eng. and Engineering Physics, University of Michigan (2012).

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Noor Khouri - Undergraduate Student  (UROP)
Email: nkkhouri(at)mit(dot)edu

MIT Class of 2015 (Course 1: Civil and Environmental Engineering).

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Carmen Cataños - Undergraduate Student  (UROP)
Email: ccastano(at)mit(dot)edu

MIT Class of 2015 (Course 1: Civil and Environmental Engineering).

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Ryan McDermott - Undergraduate Student  (UROP)
Email: mcdryan(at)mit(dot)edu

MIT Class of 2015 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering).

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Joao Lopes - Structural Engineer  (CERN)
Email: Joao(dot)Carlos(dot)Batista(dot)Lopes(at)cern(dot)ch

Visiting on Sabbatical from
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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Adrien Bresson - Visiting Student
Email: adrien(dot)bresson(at)polytechnique(dot)edu


École Polytechnique, France

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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:

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Matthew Santer
Senior Lecturer
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London, UK
Sabbatical visit 2012-13


Matt Metlitz
Undergraduate Student, UROP (Summer 2012)
MIT Class of 2014 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering).




Sarah Southerland
Undergraduate Student, UROP (Summer 2012)
MIT Class of 2013 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering and Course 4: Architecture).




Tommy Tran
High-School Student Intern (Summer 2012)
Malden High School (2012)
Summer Internship in partnership with Summer Search Boston and NSF.
now at Brown University (undergraduate).


Nicolas Bravo
Undergraduate Student, UROP (Spring 2012)
MIT Class of 2015 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering).



Miho Kitagawa
Undergraduate Student, UROP (Spring 2012)
MIT Class of 2014 (Course 2A: Mechanical Engineering).




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).