People

Principal Investigator, McAfee Professor of Engineering, and Director of LAMM
Markus J. Buehler (download biosketch here...) is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT. In his research, Buehler pursues new modeling, design and manufacturing approaches for advanced biomaterials that offer... + continue reading
Visiting Graduate Student
Amadeus is a Ph.D. student in the Dept of Computational Mechanics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - Brazil) who joined LAMM to conduct research on multiscale modeling of osteoporotic bone fracture using... + continue reading
Ph.D. Candidate
Andrew is a doctoral candidate from the Physical Chemistry division of the Dept of Chemistry. He is currently exploring the mechanical properties of biominerals through molecular dynamics simulations and is... + continue reading
Undergraduate
Antony has done research with the MIT RLE lab on expanding a voice recognition program to take input from other languages. He focused on the Spanish extension and also worked on developing a generalized extension.... + continue reading
Avery's work explores the mechanical properties of bio-inspired metal coordination bonds through molecular dynamics simulations. Their work focuses on these bonds in a protein context, with particular interest in... + continue reading
Graduate Student
Analysis of the webs of tent web spiders will lead to learning from the web’s geometries and determining structural efficiencies that could be applied to present day structures.
Bo's current research interest focuses on leveraging AI approaches and physics-based modeling to gain novel understanding on the sequence, structure and function relation of proteins and related materials. Previously,... + continue reading
Postdoctoral Associate
Jonny is a PostDoc at LAMM.  His research is mainly focused on applying machine learning and data-driven methods to design nano-composites and bio-materials.  
Darnell S Granberry is a MEng student in LAMM.
UROP Student
Darsh is a junior majoring in materials science and engineering with interests in data science and computation. At LAMM he is study metal-coordinate bonds using steered molecular dynamics.
Research Affiliate
Doug is a retired environmental engineer whose current research focuses on 3D printing structures on Mars. His primary activity with LAMM is to mentor middle and high school students... + continue reading
Ph.D. Candidate
Eesha is a PhD candidate in the Dept of Materials Science and is co advised by Professors Markus Buehler and Niels Holten Andersen. She works on studying bioinspired metal-coordination bonds in the context of proteins... + continue reading
Research Affiliate
Flavia Libonati is a young faculty member at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Polytechnic University of Milan and a visiting research scholar at MIT. Her research focuses on the origin of toughening and failure... + continue reading
Frank Liu is a researcher, part of LAMM via the RSI program. 
Isabella Stewart
Undergraduate thesis researcher
Graduate Student
I am a doctoral candidate in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics. My research aims to understand the mechanics of silk structures such as cocoons and spider webs, with a particular focus on three-... + continue reading
Undergraduate (Class of 2024)
Jaden is an undergraduate at MIT (Class of 2024) pursuing a Chemistry and Biology major. His research involves using molecular dynamics to simulate the effects of adding metal ions in the presence of proteins, focusing... + continue reading
Postdoctoral Associate
Kai’s research is currently focused on the mechanics and design of protein-based materials as well as architected materials using multiscale modeling and machine learning. Previously, He worked on studying mechanical... + continue reading
Graduate Student
I am currently a PhD candidate in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics of MIT. My research interest involves studying the molecular mechanics of biological materials by using multi-scale simulation... + continue reading
Research Affiliate
Dr. Mario Milazzo is an Assistant Professor at University of Pisa. He graduated in 2010 in Mechanical Engineering at University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) and received his PhD in BioRobotics in 2016 at the BioRobotics... + continue reading

Contact us

Laboratory for Atomistic & Molecular Mechanics

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Telephone: 617.452.2750

Fax: 617.324.4014

Email: mbuehler@mit.edu

 

Assistant: Marygrace Aboudou maboudou@mit.edu