Group alumni

• Prof. Zhao Qin (link to personal website...)
  Develop multiscale computational tools to reveal the nanoscopic mechanisms in governing the large scale behavior of biological materials, specifically for their multiple advanced material functions (e.g., thermal, electromagnetic, biological, optical, tunable mechanics and acoustic) over engineering materials.
  Now: Assistant Professor at Syracuse University

• Dr. Steve Palkovic

• Prof. Shengjie Ling (link to personal website...)
  Natural Structural Materials，Material Biology, Biomateriomics.
  Now: Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University

• Prof. Jinjie Jeo (link to personal website...)
  Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biological and Nano Materials.
  Now: Assistant Professor at Cornell University

• Prof. Grace Gu (link to personal website...)
  Numerical methods with additive manufacturing to fabricate and study bio-inspired optimized multi-phase composites, enhanced impact resistant microstructures, and hierarchically toughened synthetic bio-composites.
  Now: Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

• Dr. GangSeob Jung
  Multiscale modeling for nano and biomaterials.

• Dr. Diego López Barreiro
  Adhesive technology and waste valorization for biomaterials production, using computational techniques such as Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics.

• Dr. Davoud Ebrahimi (link to personal website...)
  Bioinspired design, biotechnology, natural materials such as clay and shale, engineered materials such as cement paste, graphene, and protein based polymers.

• Dr. Chun-Teh Chen
  Understanding the mechanics of deformation and failure of materials at the atomic level, as well as understanding their structure-property relationships.

• Prof. Anna Tarakanova (link to personal website...)
  Molecular models to study the structure, mechanics and implications of disease in biological and bio-inspired materials, including silk and elastin protein polymers.
  Now: Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut.

• Dr. Francisco Martin-Martinez (link to personal website...)
  Bio-inspiration, nanotechnology, multi-scale modeling and process engineering
  Now: Lecturer at Swansea University.

• Dr. Nina Dinjaski

• Talal Al-Mulla    

• Leon Dimas

• Carly Sanker

• Dr. Tristan Giesa
  Multiscale materials, silk fibers, and hierarchical optimization. Graduated with PhD in 2015.
  Now: Postdctoral scholar at MIT.

• Dr. Chia-Ching Chou (link to personal website...)
  Intermediate filament protein materials; disulfide bond mechanics. Graduated with PhD in 2015.

• Maryse Vachon (link to personal website...)
  Mechanics of advanced composites in structural engineering. Graduated with MEng. in 2015.

• Prof. Shu-Wei Chang (link to personal website...)
  Collagen materials in extreme conditions and disease. Graduated with PhD in 2015.
  Now: Professor at NTNU, Taiwan

• Dr. Olena Tokareva (link to personal website...)
  Spider silk gene delivery systems: modeling and experiment

• Prof. Reza Mirzaeifar (link to personal website...)
  Hierarchical mechanics of materials, multiscale modeling
  Now: Professor at Virginia Tech

• Dr. Max Solar (link to personal website...)
  Hierarchical structure and mechanics of amyloid protein materials

• Prof. Shangchao Lin (link to website...)
  Molecular mechanics of natural and bioisnpired nanomaterials
  Now: Assistant Professor at Florida State University

• Prof. Carole Perry
  Modeling and experiment of silk-like materials

• Prof. Steven Cranford
  Mechanomutable materials, multi-scale modeling and simulation. Spider web mechanics. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2012.
  Now: Assistant Professor at Northeastern University.

• Prof. Arun Nair (link to personal website...)
  Hierarchical protein material mechanics.
  Now: Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas.

• Prof. Denvid Lau (link to personal website...)
  Polymer-silica interfaces.
  Now: Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong.

• Prof. Flavia Libonati (link to personal website...)
  Molecular based modeling of bone nanocomposite.
  Now: Assistant Porofessor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

• David Adler (link to personal website...)
  Molecular mechanics of wood. Graduated with S.M. in 2013.

• Laura Batty (link to personal website...)
  Silk - water, structure and mechanics. Graduated with M.Eng. in 2013.

• Greta Gronau (link to personal website...)
  Structure and mechanics of spider silk.

• Graham Bratzel (link to personal website...)
  Hierarchical bioinspired fibers and interfaces. Graduated with S.M. in 2012.

• Jérémie Bertaud, S.M. 2009 (link to personal website...)
  Mesoscale modeling of alpha-helical proteins. Graduated wth S.M. in 2009.

• Dr. Alfonso Gautieri (link to personal website...)
  Collagenous tissues and disease. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2009.

• Prof. Christian Thaulow (visiting professor from NTNU, Norway)
  Atomistic simulation of materials failure.

• Prof. Sinan Keten, Ph.D. 2010 (link to personal website...)
  Beta-sheet rich protein materials (spider silk, amyloids). Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010. Now Assistant Professor at Northwestern Univerity.

• Dr. Theodor Ackbarow (link to personal website...)
  Intermediate filament proteins and hierarchical protein structures. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010.

• Andrea Nova (link to personal website...)
  Molecular simulation of protein materials. Graduated with S.M. in 2010.

• Prof. Zhiping Xu (link to personal website...)
  Bioinspired hierarchical thermal and structural materials. Now Associate Professor at Tsinghua University.

• Dr. Raffaella Paparcone (link to personal website...)
  Hierarchical amyloid protein materials.

• Prof. Sandra Shefelbine (Northeastern University, link to personal website...)
  Bone mechanics, remodeling and disease.

• Dr. Dipanjan Sen, Ph.D. 2010 (link to personal website...)
  Hierarchical metalic nancomposites, graphene nanotechnology, silicon. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010.

• Prof. Rouzbeh Shahsavari (link to personal website...)
  First principles simulation of nano/geomaterials. Graduated with Ph.D. in 2010.
  Now: Assistant Professor, Rice University

• Dr. Melis Arslan (link to personal website...)
  Biological and bioinspired fiber materials, spider silk

• Andre Garcia, S.M. 2010 (link to personal website...)
  Structure and nanomechanics of diatom algae. Graduated with S.M. in 2010.

• Prof. Elham H. Fini (visiting Professor, North Carolina A&T University)
  Molecular modeling of bio-inspired asphalt

• Hadass Inbar* (2011 Research Science Institute)
  Protein-particle interactions in bone and other biomaterials
  *High school student

• Prof. Seunghwa Ryu (link to personal website...)
  Multiscale modeling of mechanics of biomaterials (silk, silk-inspired and hierarchical biomimetic structures).
  Now: Assistant Professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Other former group members

• Sebastian L. Franjou (UROP)

• Mary Hwang (UROP)

• Billy Ndengeyingoma (UROP)

• Jennifer Selvidge (UROP)

• Tuukka Verho (visiting student)

• Albert K Matsushita (UROP)

• Danielle Carrol* (2012 Research Science Institute)

• Stephanie Schafer (UROP)

• Rhonda Jack (MSRP)

• Jessica Duran (MSRP)

• Maya Srinivasan (National Science Foundation REU)

• Lori Ferriss (UROP)

• Andre Garcia (undergraduate researcher, MIT Summer Research Program, MSRP)

• Huanan Zhang (Paul E. Gray (1954) UROP student)

• Andrea Fabre (UROP student)

• Xuefeng Chen (UROP)

• Dr. Nils Brödling (visiting graduate student), now at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research

• Harvey Tang (UROP student)

• Cindy X. Wang (UROP student)

• Talal A Al-Mulla (UROP student)

• Ryan King (UROP student)

• Evripides Loukaides (UROP student)

• Gabriel T Bujokas (UROP student)

• Sophie Wong (UROP student)

• Alan Cohen (UROP student)

• Sophie Weber (UROP)

• Lisa S. Wang (UROP student)

• Peg Huben (visiting High School teacher of Somerville High School, MA; MIT's RET program)

• Ken Van Tilburg (UROP)

• Lori Ferris (UROP)

• Joshua Hester (UROP) (link to personal website...)

• Britni Ihle (UROP) (link to personal website...)

• Daniel D. Jimenez

• Rachel Zucker (UROP) (link to personal website...)

• Stella Schiefer (UROP) (link to personal website...).
  Now graduate student at ETH Zurich.

• Adam Talsma (UROP)

• Matthew Pires (UROP)

• Monica Pate (UROP)

• Chelsea K Lyons (UROP)

• Anna Tarakanova (National Science Foundation REU)

• Ryan Rosario (UROP)

• Anna Tarakanova (REU)

• Ibrahim Mohedas (MSRP)

• Rachel Ellison (UROP)

• Edgardo L. Vázquez Rodríguez (National Science Foundation REU)

Recent visitors

• Luca Sagresti (University of Pisa)

• Luca Bonatti (University of Pisa)

• Dr. Haimin Yao (MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

• Prof. Jan Lammerding (Harvard Medical School)

• Dr. Shyam Sunder (NIST)

• Prof. Adri van Duin (California Institute of Technology)

• Dr. David Stewart (Industrial Research, Ldt., New Zealand)

• Prof. Ulrike Wegst (Drexel University)

• Prof. Harald Herrmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

• Prof. Laurent Kreplak (Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland, now at: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)

• Prof. Michelle Oyen (Cambridge University, U.K.)

• Prof. Jadran Vrabec (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

• Prof. Zhigang Suo (Harvard University)

• Prof. Alexander Hartmaier (University of Erlangen, Germany)

• Prof. Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University)

• Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH)

• Prof. Nicola Pugno (Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics, Giuseppe Maria Pugno, Department of Structural Engineering - Politecnico di Torino)