Graduate Students

Jack Zhao

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Emily Ryan
Topic: Applying machine learning methods to materials science and engineering

Maddison Morey

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Emily Ryan
Topic: Computational modeling of interfacial phenomena in lithium metal batteries

Emily Ghosh

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Soumendra Basu
Topic: Microstructural Changes in Solid Oxide Cells in SOFC, SOEC and Reversible Operation

Jillian Rix Mulligan

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Soumendra Basu
Topic: Quantitative Microstructural Characterization of Solid Oxide Cells to Understand Microstructure-Property Relationships and Mitigate Cell Degradation

Kaixin Suo

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Soumendra Basu
Topic: Protective Coatings on Metal Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Rohan Soni

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Soumendra Basu
Topic: Deposition of Protective AlN Coatings on Aluminum Alloys

Wenlu Wang

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joerg Werner
Topic: Electrodeposition of polymer electrolyte thin films

Anton Resing

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joerg Werner
Topic: Fabrication and characterization of architected electrodes and batteries

Zhaoyi Zheng

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joerg Werner
Topic: Electrodeposition of functional polymer thin films for carbon capture

Yuanzhi Li

Position: Ph.D. Candidate Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joerg Werner
Topic: Polymer self-assembly and chemical modification for soft templating of functional materials towards energy and sustainability technologies