Owen M. Johnson Email: johnow01@utexas.edu | Curriculum Vitae | LinkedIn Research Project Temporal evolution of nanostructures within ionic liquids Education (2022 – Present) PhD, Mechanical Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin (2018 – 2022) BA, Physics (major), Math (minor) | Luther College Awards University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2026-27) DOE-SCGSR Fellowship Award (2025-26) MRSEC Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials RET program outstanding mentor award (2023) Rossing Scholarship in Physics (2021-2022) Peer Reviewed Published Work Johnson, O. M., & Mangolini, F. (2024). Effect of Camera Parallax Angle on the Accuracy of Static Contact Angle Measurements. Langmuir, 40(10), 5090-5097. Johnson, O. M., Kirsch, L. J., & Mangolini, F. (2025). Probing the interfacial structure and ion mobility in structurally-related ionic liquids via dynamic wetting measurements. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 138281. D. B. Jacobs, A. Pradhan, O. Johnson, … & F. Mangolini. (2025). The surface-topography challenge: A multi-laboratory benchmark study to advance the characterization of topography. Tribology Letters, 73(3), 110. Zheng, A. Swain, K. Nquyen, M. Nouri, P. Phaneesh, O. Johnson, F. Mangolini, “Optothermal Bubble Etch Lithography”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces., 2026. Zhang, X., Zheng, Q., Li, H., Goodwin, Z. A., Hoane, A. G., Deptula, A., O. Johnson, … & Espinosa-Marzal, R. M. (2026). Water doping sodium battery electrolyte controls nanostructure, interactions, and electrochemical properties. Science Advances, 12(22), eaee3415. Manuscripts Under Review O. Johnson, F. Mangolini, “The Effect of Substrate Polarity on the Dynamic Wetting of Ionic Liquids”, Droplet, Submitted, 2025. Non-Academic Published Work Fahrenkamp, O. Johnson, E. Falter, “Hot Wheels, Cloud Chambers, and 3D Printing: A Hands-On Approach to Chapter Meetings”, The SPS Observer, Winter 2021, p.21.
