Professor Nasr Ghoniem, Ph. D. | Laboratory Leader E-Mail | Bio | Curriculum Vitae Research Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g. Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser & photons).

Sharam Sharafat, Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor E-Mail Research Interests: To be updated.

Tamer Crosby | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Simulation methods and design for materials and solids using FEM.

Giacomo Po | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Material Degradation in Severe Environments; Radiation Interaction with Materials; Polycrystal Plasticity; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects.

Yinan Cui | Postdoctoral Scholar E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Material mechanical behavior in Extreme Environments (such as irradiation, high strain rate), Multiscale computational mechanics, Material Defect Physics and Science.

Can Erel | Ph. D. Student E-mail Research Interests: Computational mechanics; Multi-scale problems; Crystal plasticity; Homogenization methods.

David Rivera | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Physics of materials defects, effects of stress on the damage evolution behavior of refractory metals, material degradation in space propulsion systems, material detriment due to thermal shock, radiation damage, continuum mechanics.

Christopher Matthes | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Space propulsion, material behavior under plasma conditions, material degradation in severe environments, mechanics and physics of material defects, damage and failure of materials in mechanical design, simulation methods for materials and solids using FEM.

Andrew Sheng | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects.

Edward Xiang Gao | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Vacancy and Helium Bubble nucleation in Tungsten due to plasma bombardment; Stochastic molecular studies using Kinetic Monte Carlo models; Molecular simulation using LAMMPS and COMSOL

Yue Huang | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Multiphysics and multiscale finite element analysis; High heat flux component design; Dislocation-based crystal plasticity modeling.

Mohammad Alabdullah | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Physics base damage modeling of composites for extreme heat environments.

Warren Nadvornick | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Multiscale modeling of metallic foams in high temperature environments, effective thermomechanical and transport properties of foams, evolution of irradiation-induced microstructural defects in materials.

Arian Ghazari | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Thermomechanical Cyclic Plasticity & Fracture of BCC Metals in Severe Thermal Transients.

Dylan Dickstein | Ph. D. Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: Structural Mechanics and Heat Transfer of Hypersonic Vehicles and Erosion Mechanisms.

Kevin Mark | Undergraduate Student E-mail | Résumé Research Interests: 3D Modeling of Real Volumes; Web Design; C++ Programming; Advanced/Alternative Space Propulsion Systems