Members

Members

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 February 2022

Professor

Eliot Fried

 

Staff Scientist

 

 

Stoffel Janssens

I’m Belgian and I obtained a Master in Physical Chemistry at the Free University of Brussels. Later I obtained a PhD in Physics at Hasselt University in Belgium where I also did a two year postdoc. During my PhD and first postdoc I specialized in diamond growth, device fabrication and electronic measurements. After obtaining a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship I worked two years as a postdoc in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba where I more deeply investigated diamond growth. In November 2015 I started working in the Fried Unit. Since then, I set up a lab to grow and investigate thin polycrystalline diamond films. In parallel, I worked on Marangoni propulsion and on non-coalescent droplets that hover on liquid substrates. Currently, I'm fabricating arrays of through glass vias that are sealed with suspended diamond.

 

Postdoctoral Scholar

 

Vishesh Bhat

I am from Bengaluru, India where I completed my Ph D in Mathematics, with a broad focus in the area of differential geometry. I am interested in exploring geometric narratives that underlie the working of certain physical phenomena.  I am currently looking at ways to use differential geometric notions for the understanding and analysis of problems in mechanics.

 

Vikash Chaurasia

I completed my Undergraduate and Masters degree in Department of Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India in 2012. Later, I received my PhD from University of Houston in August, 2018 on Variational Mechanics of Charged Curves. During my PhD, I also worked with Professor Fried at OIST as a special research student. My core interest lies in continuum mechanics, variational calculus and Hamiltonian dynamics. I am keenly interested in studying interesting biological phenomena from mathematical perspective.

 

 

 

Smriti

I completed my PhD from IIT Delhi, India, in 2020. During the PhD, I have worked on the application of Irving-Kirkwood-Noll procedure specific to nanorods from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Also, in thermodynamic equilibrium, I have employed the derivatives of Helmholtz free energy to obtain the microscopic expressions of different continuum fields. I have also worked in collaboration with Prof. Paul Steinmann, FAU, Germany, on a direct theory to model the elastoplasticity within the framework of special cosserat rod theory. I joined the MMMU in July 2020 to work on the mechanics of unstretchable two dimensional materials. I am closely interested in the mathematical modeling of real life physical problems.

 

 

Research Technician

David Vazquez Cortes

I received my PhD in Applied Physics from the University of San Luis Potosi in Mexico, where I studied the self-assembly of semiconductor nanostructures in III-V systems, by molecular beam epitaxy technique, and its application to semiconductor devices.
I also have experience in the machining of high precision parts, by using the machines in the workshop.In general, I like to use machines. As a Research Technician in the Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit at OIST
, I have the opportunity to learn a very wide variety of exciting experimental techniques, and I am also supporting the researchers of the unit in the performance and set up of experiments.

 

 

Michael Grunwald

 

 

Ph.D. Student

 

Ali Rahmani

I received my Master and Bachelor in chemical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and Isfahan University of Technology, respectively. By the end of my Master I found that transport phenomena and surface sciences are my main interests in science, so I decided to join MMMU to look at an interesting engineering problem from both theoretical and experimental viewpoints.

 

 

Akyl Shakir

I received my BSc degree in Mathematics from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan in 2019. During my bachelor’s thesis, I’ve worked on the investigation of the solution of a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) problem, used to model the oscillations of a thin metallic plate in a capacitor by applying singularity analysis in complex time.
I joined MMMU in September 2020 and interested in studying mathematical modeling of fluid mechanics problems.

 

 

Geoffrey Acoba Garcia

 

 

Visiting Researcher

 

Research Internship Student

 

 

 

Alumni

Darius Diogo Barreto, Postdoctral Scholar (August, 2022 - December, 2022)

Mona Kanso, Research Intern (Septmenber, 2022 - October, 2022)

Alexandru Mihai, PhD Student (August, 2018 – August, 2022)

Dmitrii Koldaev, PhD Student (August, 2019 – August, 2022)

Rakhmetolla Rakhmanov, Research Intern (June, 2022 – August, 2022)

Shreyas Samudra, Research Intern (May, 2022 – August, 2022)

Joel Meier, Research Intern(April, 2022 - October, 2022)

Burhannudin Sutisna, Postdoctoral Scholar (August, 2018 – August, 2022)

Johannes Schönke, Staff Scientist (April, 2015 – June, 2022)

Genki Oyafuso, Research Intern (September, 2021 – February, 2022 )

Louie John Gozun, Remote Research Intern (November, 2021 – March, 2022 )

Yuki Odo, Research Intern (April – December, 2021)

James Kwiecinski, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (September, 2019 – May, 2021)

Sandeep Rajendra Kumar, PhD Student (May, 2020 – May, 2021)

Sutashu Tomonaga, Research Intern
(August, 2019. February – March, 2020. November, 2020 – April, 2021)

Adel Ferrnando Sarmiento Rodriguez (February, 2018 – March, 2021)

Alessandro Giussani (January , 2018 – January 2021)

Aliyah Osman, Research Intern (June – July, 2020)

Martín Forsberg Conde, Visiting Research Student (August, 2019 – May, 2020)

Yi-shan Cheng, Research Intern (June – September, 2019)

Nicolas Moreno Chaparro, Postdoctoral Scholar (July, 2016 – December, 2019)

Alice Taylor, Postdoctoral Scholar (October, 2018 – September, 2019),
                   JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (February – August, 2018)

Trinh Truong Duc, Visiting Research Student (June, 2019)

Amanda Ho, Research Intern

Christina Nguyen, Research Intern

Santiago Peña Clavijo, Visiting Research Student (August – October, 2018)

Clair Heffernan, Research Intern (June – July, 2018)

Jake Chambers, Research Intern (May – July, 2018)

Tuan Hoang, Postdoctoral Scholar (2015 – 2018)

Wei Chung Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar (2015 – 2017)

Yoichi Takato, Postdoctoral Scholar (2015 – 2017)

Ryohei Seto, Group Leader (2015 – 2017)

Giulio Giusteri, Postdoctoral Scholar (2015 – 2017)

Abdul Majid, Postdoctoral Scholar (2015 – 2017)

Vincent Chan, Ph.D. Student (2016 – 2017)

Manav, Research Intern (December 2017 – March 2018)

Akira Kawano, Research Intern (February – April, 2018)

Ching-Hsiu Hsu, Research Intern (April – August, 2016)

Antonio Martiniello, Research Intern (July – November, 2016)

Adam Stones, Research Intern (July – August, 2015)

Russell Todres, Staff Scientist (2014 – 2015)

 

                                                                                                                            December 2018