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Group Members

GameOn (April 2025)
Group Dinner (April 2025)
Festivity Lunch (December 2024) - only a few people left in the lab before the Christmas break!
TopGolf (December 2024)
Group Meeting (December 2024)
Posse East - Friday drinks (October 2024)
Group Photo (April 2024)
TopGolf (December 2023)
Nicolas and Jerushah’s wedding (July 2023)
Group Photo (April 2023)
Group Photo (January 2022)
GRC Tribology (June 2022)
Group Photo (December 2021)
Group Photo (July 2021)
Group Photo (September 2021)

Research Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Dr. John F. Curry (Fall 2023 – Present) – Senior Research Fellow (joint appointment with Sandia National Laboratories)

Current Graduate Students

  • Hsu-Ming Lien (Fall 2020)
  • Nicolas Molina Vergara (Fall 2020. Co-advised with Prof. Gregory J. Rodin)
  • Logan J. Kirsch (Fall 2021. Co-advised with Prof. Gregory J. Rodin)
  • Owen M. Johnson (Fall 2022)
  • Felix Zhang (Fall 2024)
  • Aisha Lizaola (Fall 2025)
  • Alexandra Vaughn (Fall 2025)
  • Katarzyna Drewniak (Fall 2025)

Current Undergraduate Students

  • Michal Machart (Spring 2024)
  • Victoria Li (Fall 2024)
  • Natalia Orejas (Fall 2024)
  • Marta Maia (Spring 2025)

Past Graduate Students

  • Dr. Jieming Yan (Spring 2020 – Spring 2025)
  • Camille Edwards (Fall 2022 – Spring 2025)
  • Kenechukwu G. Moneke (Spring 2022 – Spring 2023)
  • Dr. Zixuan Li (Spring 2018 – Spring 2022) – Now at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Dr. Robert Chrostowski (Fall 2018 – Spring 2023) – NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Past Undergraduate Students

  • Preston Davis (Summer 2024 – Spring 2025, Now at Rice University)
  • Charis Kim (Spring 2024 – Spring 2025)
  • Lorren Banker (Spring 2024, Now at ExxonMobil)
  • Ruby Tunney (Spring 2024, Now at John Deere)
  • Britney Fang (Now at Nike)
  • Jennings Z. Ye (Now at University of California, Berkeley)
  • Alaina Tibbs
  • Emily Jones
  • James Smith
  • Ryan S. Misage
  • Jude Kershaw
  • Richard Sherwood
  • Lorenzo Castelli

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