Members

C. Cem Tasan
Thomas B. King Associate Professor of MetallurgyBSc. MSc. METU/Turkey, 2005
PhD. Eindhoven University of Technology/Netherlands, 2010
Postdoc and group leader, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung/Germany, 2016
Cem started his academic journey in Ankara, in the beautiful campus of METU, moved to rainy Eindhoven for a Ph.D. degree on micro-mechanics of damage, and to classy Dusseldorf for more fun in alloy design. These days he is training to be a professional chess player, while spending his free time at MIT supervising a bunch of amazing researchers.

Kathy Simons
Administrative Assistant

Johanna M. Wilcox
Financial Coordinator

Jinwoo Kim
Postdoctoral AssociateBSc. PhD. Seoul National University/South Korea, 2016
Jinwoo has been working on investigation of microstructural change and mechanical behavior of materials in hydrogen environment. He loves design, machining and fabrication of devices. He is very good at taking jump photos in an ‘emergency exit’ pose.

Hyunseok Oh
Postdoctoral AssociateBSc. PhD. Seoul National University/South Korea, 2018
Hyunseok has been working on developing new alloys. Hyunseok likes playing games. He also likes betting on the properties of new alloys.

Onur Guvenc
Postdoctoral Associate
BSc. METU/Turkey, 2002
MSc. PhD RWTH-Aachen/Germany, 2019
Onur is working on new alloys and processing routes for easier reuse, reform and remanufacture extending material’s lifecycle. In his spare time, he trys to figure out the best viewing order for Star Wars.

Benjamin Cameron
Graduate StudentBE. in Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury/New Zealand 2013.
Ben is working on data driven optimization of metallic microstructure morphologies to improve mechanical performance. He conducts in-situ SEM deformation experiments in order to train various models. While his models are running, Ben also likes to run around outside in order to feel productive.

Menglei Jiang
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Tsinghua University/China, 2015
M.Sc. MIT/USA,2018
Menglei is working on healable metal alloy design and trying to apply this metallic coating at a functional coating layer to detect and heal damages to increase materials lifetime.

Jackie Cho
Graduate Student
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/USA 2014.
M.S. in Materials Science and Technology, MIT/USA 2017
Jackie is working on developing alloys with self-resetting microstructures to heal damage as it happens. While she has been freezing living in the north in the winter, she enjoys getting to play football and volleyball in warmer weather.

Jiyun Kang
Graduate StduentBSc./MSc Pohang University of Science and Technology/South Korea, 2013
Jiyun has been very enthusiastic in investigating plasticity and damage mechanisms of titanium alloys under the different and complex strain paths. She travels regularly, and her favorite place these days is a reciprocal space.

Haoxue Yan
Graduate Student
BSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/USA, 2017
Haoxue’s research focuses on understanding hydrogen-defect interactions by developing in-situ electron microscopy methods. She grew up in China but found multiple home-away-from-home within the United States. Haoxue enjoys playing board games, climbing fake rocks, and spinning on ice.

Gianluca Roscioli
Graduate StudentB.Sc. Politecnico di Milano/Italy, 2014
M.Sc. Double degree Politecnico di Milano & Politecnico di Torino/Italy, 2016
Gianluca has been building new setups to be used inside a Scanning Electron Microscope to uncover how metals wear down. His goal is to find the constitutive laws of this process and use them to design new wear-resistant alloys. Originally from Rome, Italy, Gianluca enjoys sailing and raising tropical fish in his 55 gallon aquarium.

Shaolou Wei
Graduate Student B. Eng. Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, Harbin Institute of Technology/China, 2017
Shaolou is working on microstructural evolution and phase transformations for advanced complex concentrated alloys development. He enjoys swimming, reading, and listening to classical music in his spare time.

Krista Biggs
Graduate Student
BSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/ USA, 2018
Krista works on in situ tests of sheet steels used for automotive applications. This has given her the opportunity to spend many hours focusing on sample preparation and testing in the SEM- focus that, in her spare time, translates to rowing marathons on the rowing machine!

Maria Ronchi
Graduate Student
BSc. in Materials Engineering, Brown University/ USA, 2019
Maria is investigating high-throughput casting methods to better design high entropy alloys, one goal being to improve the problem of hydrogen embrittlement. She takes every chance she can get to explore the outdoors, but also loves reading fantasy novels and playing board games.

Julian Rackwitz
Graduate Student
B.S. in Engineering Science, Technical University of Berlin, 2017
M.S. in Engineering Science, Technical University of Berlin, 2020
Julian works on novel approaches to characterize the damping and fatigue properties of alloys. His goal is to design a high-strength high-damping steel. He centers his day around coffee and loves exploring different cultures.”

Tim Fountain
Graduate Student
B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology / USA, 2014.
Tim is studying the design of alloys whose mechanical properties are enhanced through strain-induced phase transformation. In his free time Tim loves to be outdoors, stay active, and attend concerts of any musical genre, but his favorite is heavy metal!

Daniel Moriarty
Graduate Student
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 2020
Dan’s research investigates properties of novel alloys. He enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, and training for triathlons!
Previous Members

Gaoming Zhu
Visiting Graduate Student
B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology/ China, 2016

Decheng Kong
Visting Graduate Student
B.S. and M.S., University of Science and Technology Beijing/China 2017

Isao Arai
Visting Scientist
BSc. Tokyo Institute of Technology/Japan, 2007
MSc. University of Tokyo/Japan, 2009

Sergio A Arenas
UROP
BSc. DMSE MIT

Dylan Hall
Exchange Student / Visiting Meng Student
MEng. Imperial College/ U.K., 2020

Matej Repka
Undergraduate Exchange Student
MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering
Imperial College London/ U.K. (ongoing)

Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi
Postdoctoral Associate
BSc. MSc. SUT, Tehran/Iran, 2008
PhD. EPFL, Lausanne/Switzerland, 2015
Post-doc, Brown University, Providence/USA, 2017

Megan Cooper
UROP
BSc. DMSE MIT

Ikuho Nakahata
Visiting Graduate Student
BE. Tokyo Institute of Technology/Japan 2018

Killian Sheriff
Visiting Undergraduate Student
BSc. McGill University/Canada (ongoing)

Sabrina Hernandez
UROP
BSc. MIT, DMSE
Topic: Advanced Co-based alloys.

Ella V. Richards
UROP
BSc. MIT, DMSE
Topic: The effect of grain size on hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of nickel.

Nisal Ovitigala
UROP
BSc. MIT
Topic: Effective shearing of metals.

Federico Lucchini
Visiting Graduate Student
BSc. Politecnico di Milano
Topic: SLM multi-material graded samples.

Riccardo Rossi
Visiting Graduate Student
BSc. Politecnico di Milano
Topic: SLM multi-material graded samples.

Feng He
Visiting Graduate Student
BSc, MSc, Northwestern Polytechnical University/China, 2016
Topic: High entropy alloys, phase transformation, TEM.

Dr. Atieh Moridi
Postdoctoral Fellow
BSc. MSc. Sharif University of Technology/Iran, 2011
PhD. Polytechnic University of Milan/Italy, 2015
Topic: Surface engineering, Additive manufacturing, Carbon nanomaterials.

Dr. Daixiu Wei
Visiting Reesearcher
PhD. Tohoku University/Japan, 2016
Assistant professor, Tohoku University/Japan, 2016
Topic: Cobalt alloys for biomedical applications.

Shao-Shi Rui
Visiting Graduate Student
BSc. University of Science and Technology Beijing/China, 2014
Topic: EBSD misorientation mapping, crystal plasticity characterization, metallic failure analysis, fatigue and creep.

Maxim Vreeswijk
IROP
MEng. Imperial College London, 2019
Topic: In-situ characterisation of damage mechanisms.

Jaehoon Kim
High School Student
Topic: reformability of Ti alloys.

Jacqueline Ahrens
UROP
BSc. MIT
Topic: Resetting pearlitic steel.

Matt Coupin
UROP
BSc. MIT
Topic: Steel forming limit.

Rebecca Wang
Exchange student/Visiting MEng sudent
MEng. Oxford University, 2018
Topic: Self-healing alloys, in-situ characterization, fatigue.

Sophia Kioulaphides
UROP
BSc. MIT, DMSE
Topic: Design of self-healing alloys

Dr. Emeric Plancher
Postdoctoral Associate
BSc.MSc. MINES St. Etienne/France, 2011
PhD. ParisTech/France, 2015
Topic: EBSD, ECCI, DIC, Crystal plasticity, multi-field mapping, in-situ micro-mechanical testing.

Ke Qu
Visiting Graduate Student
BSc. Lanzhou University/China, 2013
Grad student Lanzhou University/China
Topic: Nanomanipulation and nanofabrication, nanowelding, in-situ SEM/TEM.

Dr. Zhiyuan Liang
Visiting Researcher
BSc. Shanghai Jiao Tong University/China, 2012
PhD. The University of Hong Kong/China, 2016
Topic: Deformation
mechanisms in advanced high strength
steels, Small-scale mechanics.

Prof. Zhiyong Liu
Visiting Researcher
BSc. PhD. USTB/China, 2009
Post-doc. University of Calgary/Canada, 2009
Associate Professor, USTB/China, 2012
Topic: Corrosion initiation, nano scale corrosion-deformation co-play, EBSD, ECCI, TEM, APT.

Tomoki Mizoguchi
Visiting Graduate Student
BSc. Kyushu University/Japan, 2016
Graduate student Kyushu University/Japan
Topic: Fatigue crack propagation, In-situ SEM, Hydrogen embrittlement, EBSD, FIB.

Gabriel M Scimeme
UROP
BSc. MIT, DME
Topic: Sheet metal deformations in complex strain path, in-situ micro-mechanical testing.

Anshul Kamboj
Visiting Undergraduate Student
BSc.Tech-Indian Institute of Technology (ongoing)
Topic: Coatings to prevent Hydrogen Embrittlement.

Felipe Radovitzky
UROP
BSc. MIT, DME
Topic: Gradient materials.

Jessica Lin
High School Student
Topic: surface wear of metals

Stacy-Michelle Reid (Weybrant)
RET
BSE Arizona State University, Construction, 1999
MEd Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2010
Chemistry & Environmental Science Teacher, Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Boston MA
Topic: Materials testing curriculum for high school students.

Marol Escajeda
UROP
BSc. MIT, DME
Topic: Design of self-healing alloys.

Luke R. Bordonaro
UROP
BSc. MIT, DMSE
Topic: Absolute elastic strain measurement with HR-EBSD

Dr. Meimei Wang
Visiting researcher
BSc. USTB/China, 2009
MSc. RWTH Aachen/Germany, 2011
PhD. Max-Planck Institut fur
Eisenforschung/Germany, 2016
Topic: Metastable steel design, mechanically-induced martensitic transformation, calphad based modelling, EBSD, TEM.

Dr. Jiali Zhang
Visiting Researcher
BSc. USTB/China, 2009
MSc. RWTH Aachen/Germany, 2011
PhD. Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung/Germany, 2016
Topic: Self-healing alloy design, cracks microstructure interactions, recrystallization, ECCI, EBSD, TEM.

Felipe de Quesada
UROP
BSc. MIT, DMSE
Topic: Crack propagation through martensitic boundaries.

Niels Vonk
Visiting MSc. Student (TU/e)
BSc. Eindhoven University of Technology, 2015
Topic: Design of a bulge test for quasi-in-situ testing of sheet metal in complex strain paths.

Tijmen Vermeij
Visiting MSc. Student (TU/e)
BSc. Eindhoven University of Technology, 2015
Topic: Microscopic investigation of residual stresses in steel by focused ion beam milling

Chen Wang
UROP
BSc. MIT, DMSE
Topic: Ag decoration for hydrogen mapping

Robin de Meyere
IROP
MSc. Imperial College London
Topic: Mechanical behavior of crumpled Al foils

Qilong Cheng
Visiting BSc. Student
BSc. Tsinghua University (ongoing)
Topic: Design of in-situ micro-deformation stages.