Virtual Open House
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Niaz Abdolrahim: Multiscale Modeling and Simulations of Nanoscale Materials
Other Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulation |
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Hussein Aluie – Laboratory for Laser Energetics: Complex and Turbulent Flows in Fusion, Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Engineering
Other Interests: Turbulence; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Compressible Flows; Magnetohydrodynamics; Hydrodynamic Instabilities |
Associate Dean, Education, and New Initiatives Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor, Materials Science | Professor Paul D. Funkenbusch: Biomaterials and Biomechanics
Other Interests: Microstructure, properties, and processing of materials; Variability in materials and processing especially as related to biomaterials and mechanics; Experimental design/robust design |
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Douglas H. Kelley – Mixing Lab: Fluid Dynamics of Brain Cerebrospinal Fluid and Liquid Metal Technologies
Other Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing |
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor, Materials Science Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) Materials Science Graduate Recruiting Committee | Professor John C. Lambropoulos: Optical Manufacturing and Optomechanics
Other Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth |
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering | Professor Jong-Hoon Nam – Nam Lab: Capturing the Moment of the Inner Ear Mechanotransduction
Other Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell and tissue mechanics |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Andrea Pickel – Pickel Group: Nanoscale Thermal Transport
Other Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; luminescence nanothermometry; single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy; high-temperature thermal metrology; electrothermal measurements |
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor, Department of Physics Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Chuang Ren: Group of Plasma Simulation (GPS)
Other Interests: High energy density physics (HEDP); Plasma astrophysics; High-performance computing |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor, Department of Physics Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Adam Sefkow – The TriForce Center for Multiphysics Modeling
Other Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; magneto-inertial fusion; high energy density physics; laser-plasma interaction; computational physics; magnetohydrodynamics; particle-in-cell simulations |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | Professor Jessica Shang – Hydrodynamics Lab
Other Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics; biological fluid systems; fluid-structure interactions; vortex dynamics; HED hydrodynamics and transport |
