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Back row (frow left to right): Yuxi Zhang, Jun Mo Kim, Matthew Mannarino, David Nicholson, Alexander Flores, Sang Il Han, Alexander Bourque, Linda Mousseau Front row (from left to right): Keith Forward, Gregory Rutledge, Salvador Cervantes, Simon Choong, Jason Lee |
Current Group Members
(Click on name to retrieve full address and email, and on topic for project description)
| Name |
Research Topic | Indrani Bhattacharyya Postdoctoral Associate |
Electrospinning for continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals | Alexander Bourque Graduate Student |
Discovery and Design of Additives for Novel Polymer Morphology and Performance | Saptarshi Chattopadhyay Post-doctoral Associate |
Carbon Micro- and Nanofibers as Adsorbents in Filter Media | Simon Choong Graduate Student |
Application of Electrospinning in Desalination Membrane Technology |
| Predrag Dragutin Djuranovic Graduate Student |
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crystallization from Oriented Polymer Melts | Fei Guo Post-doctoral Associate |
TBD |
| Sang Il Han Post-doctoral Associate |
Responsive Membranes for Gas Permeation |
| Jun Mo Kim Post-doctoral Associate |
Molecular Modeling of Semicrystalline Polymer: Plastic Deformation |
| Jason Lee Post-doctoral Associate |
Electrospinning of High Performance Fibers |
| Matthew Mannarino Graduate Student |
Novel Composite Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications |
| Xianwen Mao Graduate Student |
Electrochemical Control of Redox-Responsive Gels for Organics-Water Separation | David Nicholson Graduate Student |
TBD |
| Wenda Tian Graduate Student |
TBD |
| Peng Yi Postdoctoral Associate |
Molecular simulation study of homogeneous crystal nucleation in melts of chain molecules |
| Yuxi Zhang Graduate Student |
Electrospun Nanofibers with Tunable Electrical Conductivity |
| Administrative Assistants | |
| Linda L. Mousseau |
Alumni/ae
| Erik Allen | Ph.D. 2008, Thesis: A Novel Algorithm for Creating Density Dependent, Coarse-Grained Models for Simulation of Surfactant Systems.
Present position: Svaya Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| Miguel Amat | Post-doctoral Associate. Molecular simulation of surface properties.
Present Position: Department of Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA |
| Sudhakar Balijepali |
Post-doctoral Associate, Present position: Dow Chemical Company, Midland MI |
| Mark Bathe (www) |
Ph.D. 2004, Thesis: Inverse Monte Carlo simulation of biomolecular conformation and coarse-grained molecular modeling of chondroitin sulfate conformation, titration, and osmotic pressure Present position: Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering Department, MIT. |
| Frederick E. Bernardin |
Ph. D. 2007, Thesis: "Application of Semi-Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (SGMC) Methods to Describe Non-Equilibrium Polymer Systems". Present Position: Bolt Beranek and Newman Technologies, Cambridge, MA |
| Pradipto Bhattacharjee | Post-doctoral Associate. Fundamental studies on electrospinning of polymeric nanofibers.
Present position: Monash University, Australia |
| Sezen Buell | Ph.D. 2010, Thesis: Multiscale Modeling and Analysis of Nanofibers and Nonwoven Materials. (Program in Polymer Science and Technology).
Present position: Proctor and Gamble |
| Franco Capaldi (www) | Ph.D. 2005, Thesis: "Atomistic simulations of octacyclopentyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane polyethylene nanocomposites". Present Position: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA |
| Jeffrey D. Carbeck |
Ph.D. 1996, Thesis: "Temperature-Dependent Structure and
Properties of Crystalline Poly(vinylidene fluoride) from Molecular Simulation". Present position: MC10, Waltham, MA |
| Liang Chen | Ph.D. 2009, Thesis: Next Generation of Electrospun Textiles for Chemical and Biological Protection and Air Filtration.
Present position: KiOR, Inc., Pasadena, TX |
| Frederick L. Colhoun |
Ph.D 2000. Thesis: Relaxaion of Processing Induced Orientation in
Polymer Melts. Present position: Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN. |
| Neha Datta | Visiting Scholar, Electrospun nonwovens for photochemical tissue bonding. |
| Keith Forward | Postdoctoral Associate. Electrospinning for Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals.
Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA |
| Steven H. Foulger |
Ph.D. 1996, Thesis: "Molecular Simulation of Liquid Crystalline Polyesters". Present position: Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University. |
| Sergey V. Fridrikh |
Visiting Scientist. Research topic: Electrohydrodynamic Theory Present Position: Nuance Communications, Burlington, MA |
| Sumit Gautam |
M.S. 2000. Thesis: The Role of Chain Tilt in Semi-Crystalline Polymer
Interphases, Studied Through Molecular Simulation. Present position: McKinsey and Co., CA |
| Anil Gopala |
M.S.CEP 1995, Present position: Charles River Associates, Cambridge, MA. |
| Markus Hütter (email) |
Post-doctoral Associate, 2004 Research Topic: Polymer Crystallization: Coupling of Solid and Liquid Phase Present Position: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherland |
| Ahmed E. Ismail |
Ph.D. 2005, Thesis: "Multiresolution methods for materials modeling via coarse-graining". Present position: Junior Professor, Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
| Amrit Kalra |
Post-doctoral Associate, 2004 Present position: Shell International B.V., Houston, TX. |
| Anjali A. Khare |
Post-doctoral Associate. Present position: Technology Strategy, Inc., Cambridge, MA. |
| Min Jae Ko |
Post-doctoral Associate, 2004 Present position: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). |
Vikram K. Kuppa |
Post-doctoral Associate, 2008 Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati. |
| Daniel J. Lacks |
Post-doctoral Associate. Present position: Case Western Reserve University, Chemical Engineering Department, C. Benson Branch Professor. |
| Marc Lavine | Post-doctoral Associate. Present position: American Associate for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC., Associate Editor |
| Jung Ah Lee | Post-doctoral Associate. Surface active multifunctional electrospun silicone nanofiber membranes.
Present position: General Electric Co. |
| Sanghun Lee |
Post-doctoral Associate. Present position: Samsung, Korea |
| Yong Li | Graduate student, Technology and Policy Program. Present position: MIT TPP. |
| Ming-Yuan Liao |
Post-doctoral Associate. Present position: Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Biomedicine and Biomedical Technology, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan. |
| Joe Lowery | Ph.D. 2010, Thesis: Characterization and Modification of Porosity in Electrospun Polymeric Materials for Tissue Engineering Applications.
Present position: DuPont Advanced Fibers, Richmond, VA |
| Minglin Ma (www) | Ph.D. 2008 Present position: MIT, Cambridge, MA |
| Ateeque Malani | Postdoctoral Associate. Molecular Modeling of Three-Phase Contact.
Present position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India |
| Oleg Manevitch |
Post-doctoral Associate. Research Topic: Molecular simulation of
polymer nanocomposites. Present position: Russian Academy of Sciences. |
| Shawn W. Mowry | Ph.D. 2002 Thesis: Atomistic simulation of the alpha_c relaxation in semicrystalline polyethylene. Present position: ExxonMobil, Baton Rouge, LA. |
| Paola B. Nasser | M.Eng. 2002 Thesis: Remote Microscope for Polymer Crystallization WebLab. Present position: |
| Peter H. Nelson |
Ph.D. 1998 Thesis: "Simulation of Self-Assembled Polymer and
Surfactant Systems". Present position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Benedictine University. |
| David C. Oda | Ph.D., 1998, Thesis: "Determination of Orientation in Aromatic Polyesters". Present position: OSI Software, Inc., San Leandro, CA |
| Chia-Ling Pai | Ph.D. 2011, Thesis: Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Polymeric Fibers and Their Nonwoven Fabrics.
Present position: Applied Materials, CA |
| Derik A. Pridmore |
M.S. 2005, Thesis: Online polymer crystallization experiment" Present Position: McKinsey, New York, NY |
| Wei-Ning Shen | Visiting Scholar. Present position: University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Chemical Engineering, graduate student. |
| Y. Michael Shin |
Ph.D. 2000. Thesis: "Formation of polymer nanofibers from electrified fluid jets" Present position: Orteq Bioengineering, Groningen, The Netherlands. |
| Daniel Talavera | M.Eng. 2003 Thesis: "On-Line Laboratory for Remote Polymer Crystallization Experiments Using Optical Microscopy". |
| Kirill Titievsky | Ph.D. 2009, Thesis: Physical Interpretation of Coarse-Grained Bead-Spring Models of Complex Fluids.
Present position: Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
| Pieter in 't Veld |
Post-doctoral Associate. Research Topic: Molecular simulation of polymer interphases. Present Position: BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany. |
| Numan Waheed |
Ph.D. 2005, Thesis: "Molecular simulation of crystal growth in alkane and polyethylene melts". Present Position: Bain and Co., Atlanta, GA. |
| Mao Wang | Post-doctoral Associate, 2005 Research Topic: Electrospinning Present position: Chicago Kent School of Law, Chicago, IL |
| John L. Wilhelmi |
M.S. 1996, Thesis: "Study of the Structure and Properties of the Polymer Crystalline Surface" Present position: Eastern Research Group, Lexington, MA. |
| Ying Yang | Post-doctoral Associate. Functional responsive nanofiber membranes for environmental, chemical and biological processing.
Present position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| Jian H. Yu |
Ph. D. 2007, Thesis: "Electrospinning of Polymeric Nanofiber Materials: Process Characterization and Unique Applications". Present Position: United States Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD |