![]() | Chris Santangelo Professor Office: 209G Physics Building |
![]() | Alexia Chatzitheodorou Graduate student Shapes of nematic elastomer cylinders |
![]() | Carlos Moguel-Lehmer Graduate student Dynamics of non-Euclidean sheets |
| Carter Matties Graduate student and NRT Fellow |
Former Group Members
| Name | Degree | Current |
| Gentian Muhaxheri | Ph.D. 2026 Hysterons through bifurcation analysis and catastrophe theory | postdoc @ Northwestern |
| Samay Hulikal | Ph.D. 2026 Surfing Shapes & Breaking Bridges: Geometric Control in Soft Matter | postdoc @ CU Boulder |
| Sourav Roy | Ph.D. 2025 Frustration & Functionality: Geometry & Topology in Mechanical Metamaterials | postdoc @ AMOLF |
| Manu Mannattil | Ph.D. 2023 Asymptotics, Geometry, and Soft Matter | postdoc @ Harvard SEAS |
| Mary Elizabeth Lee-Trimble | Ph.D. 2023 When to hold and when to fold: Studies on the topology of origami and linkages | @ company |
| Keung Eun Kim | Ph.D. 2022 Geometry of discrete and continuous bounded surfaces | postdoc @ UBC |
| Michelle Berry | Ph.D. 2022 Mechanologic: Designing Mechanical Devices that Compute | data scientist @ 84.51 degrees |
| Daria Atkinson | Ph.D. 2020 Filaments, Fibers and Foliations in Frustrated Soft Materials | |
| Carlos Duque | Ph.D. 2020 Distortion Controlled Isotropic Swelling and Self Assembly of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces | data scientist in Europe |
| Bryan Chen | Postdoc 2015-2017 | Silicon Valley Commerce |
| Salem Al Mosleh | Ph.D. 2018 Geometry, Growth and Pattern Formation in This Elastic Structures | Asst. Prof. @ U. Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Vincent Demery | postdoc 2013-2014 | Prof. @ ESPCI |
| Marcelo Dias | Ph.D. 2012 Swelling and Folding as Mechanisms of 3D Shape Formation in Thin Elastic Sheets | Reader @ U. Edinburgh |
| Art Evans | postdoc 2013-2015 | CTO, Multiscale Systems |
| James Hanna | postdoc 2010-2013 | Assoc. Prof. @ U. Nevada Reno |
| Badel Mbanga | postdoc 2010-2012 | Vice Pres., Business Analytics and AI @ PNC Bank |
| Leslie Upton | NEAGEP intern | Physicist @ Northrop Grumman |
| Kiyotaka Akabori | MS 2011 | Technical consultant @ Mathworks |


