Lab Members
Lab Director
Kasia Di Muzio
Administrative Assistant
Dr. Jan-Hendrik Bastek
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: truss fracture toughness, machine learning applied to metamaterials, frame shells
Dr. Gerhard Bräunlich
Scientific Computing
Mathieu Brodmann
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: ferroelectric materials, multi-scale characterization, experimental mechanics
Dr. Emil Bronshtein
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research Topics: mechanical avalanches, mechanics of materials, metamaterials
Rodrigo Castillo-Acuña
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: mechanics of tissues, meshless methods
Junyu Chen
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: reconfigurable metamaterials, multistable metamaterials, soft robotics
Hsu-Cheng Cheng
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: ferroelectric ceramics, phase-field modeling, phase transformation
Dr. Claire Griesbach
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: ferroelectric materials, experimental micromechanics and structural characterization
Dr. Dotan Ilssar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: reconfigurable metamaterials, nonlinear dynamics, machine learning, experimental identification of dynamic systems
Kevin Kraschewski
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: coarse-graining techniques, truss metamaterials, meshless methods
Lisa Latussek
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: computational mechanics, spinodal architectures und inverse design
Dr. Helen Le Clézio
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: multiscale modeling of non-periodic and complex nonlinear structural networks
Elias Pescialli
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: computational mechanics, intertwined architected metamaterials
Dr. Shashank Saxena
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: coarse-grained atomistics and mass transport
Veit Schönherr
Lab Technician
Dr. Prakash Thakolkaran
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: physics-guided machine learning for (meta-)material design,
interpretable and explainable ML
Jung-Chew Tse
3D Printing Technician
Thomas Vreugdenhil
Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics: metamaterial dynamics, wave guiding
Dr. Li Zheng
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topics: machine learning applied to mechanics