Team

Prof. Martin Thuo, PhD

Associate Professor
Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor,
Materials Science & Engineering,
Electrical & Computer Engineering (courtesy)

Post-doctoral fellow: Harvard University; Mary-Fieser fellow (2009-2011), Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center fellow (2012-2013)

Graduate Students:

	Alana Pauls began her BS/MS studies in Fall 2020 working on development of frugal tools to evaluate defects in additively manufactured products. Her previous work in the group involved synthesis of undercooled metal particles using the SLICE method and developing methods to tune size polydispersity for printing on textured surfaces. (e-mail: ampauls at iastate.edu)
	Dhruv Raturi Joined the group as an MEng student working on understanding phase transition models from a first principle approach on 2D self-assembled model system. He transitioned to a PhD student extending his work on self-assembled systems and associated phase change. (e-mail: draturi at iastate.edu)
	Bradley Swan Joined the group in 2021 will be working on non-traditional polymer synthesis and applications. Part of his work is to utilize surface bound water as a co-monomer or free-electrons in engineering polymer architecture.
	Dhanush Udayashankara Joined the group from fall 2021 and is working on engineering tribological properties of layered hierarchical materials.
	Odin Taylor joined the group in December 2021 as a BS/MS student. He will be working on autonomous processing of metastable materials
	Yahriel Salinas-Reyes (LSAMP Scholar, Boeing fellow, ISU HONS) joined the group as a freshman and has been working on neoteric MEMS for use in understanding autonomous poising.
	Ally Dunnum joined the group in the fall 2021. She is working on understanding complex biological surfaces.

	Dr. Stephanie Oyola-Reynoso (Postdoc at Harvard University)
	Dr. Jiahao Chen (Postdoc at Northwestern University)
	Dr. Boyce Chang (Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley)
	Dr. Andrew Martin (Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) Website
	Joel Cutinho, M.S. (Nanolab Technologies Inc.)
	Dr. Julia J. Chang (Postdoc at Fudan University) Website
	Dr. Chuanshen Du (Postdoc at University of British Columbia)
	Dr. Paul Gregory (IP specialist – ISURF)
	Dr. Souvik Banerjee (Engineer, Intel)
	Dr. Scarlett (Zhengjia) Wang (university of Virginia)
	Dr. Ian Tevis (President and CTO, Safi-tech inc)
	Dr. Chris Frankeiwcz (CTO, Sep-All)
	Souvik Kundu
	Millicent (Orondo) Hoback
	Dr. Marcela Portes de Castro (faculty, IFES – Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo)
	Dr. Mario Fratzl (CNRS, France)
	Dr. Winnie Kiarie (Intel)