Graduate Researchers
Meet the Masters and PhD students in CANFSA!
Mongo Freund & Adam
PhD
Jamie McIntyre
PhD
Jonathan Zaugg
PhD
Project: Lightweight Materials and Structures for Ballistic Protection (with Quad City Manufacturing Lab)
Johnathan Titus Barnett
PhD
Project: Role of Thermomechanical Processing (TMP) on the Evolution of Microstructure and Response in Multi-Phase Refractory Alloys
Matthew Dolde
PhD
Project: Design, making, measuring of gradient materials
Valava Sambandam Rani
Masters
Will Waliser
PhD
Project: Solute Effects on Recrystallization in Binary Nb Alloys
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Recently Graduated Researchers
Abigail Miklas
Masters
Focus: Rapid solidification of additively manufactured refractory metals
Alec Saville
Postdoc
Focus: Additive Manufacturing of Titanium, Aluminum, and Stainless Steel Alloys
Benjamin Ellyson
PhD and Postdoc
Focus: High strain-rate deformation of metallic alloys and X-ray radiography of polymers/metals
Byron McArthur
Masters & PhD
Focus: Phase transformations in titanium alloys and abnormal grain growth in nickel super alloys
Chris Jasien
PhD
Emily Pittman
PhD
Finn Bamrud
Masters
Grant Johnson
PhD
Project: A Novel Synergistic Approach of Combining Multiscale DED Processes for Next Generation Hybrid Additive Manufacturing
Gus Becker
PhD
Jesus Gonzales
Masters
Jesus Vazquez
PhD
Katie O'Donnell
PhD
Project: Rationalization of Liquid/Solid and Solid/solid Interphase Instabilities During Thermal-Mechanical Transients of Metal Additive Manufacturing
Nadria Surghani
Masters
Noah Welch
PhD
Project: The Influence of Microstructure on the Properties of Ta-Ti-Cr Concentrated Refractory Alloys
Oliver Hesmondhalgh
PhD
Ruth Sunderman
Masters
Project: Ti-5553 Microstructural Characterization Using Nondestructive Techniques
Spencer Hunt
Masters
Summer Camerlo
Masters
Focus: Deformation and characterization of fine particulate materials
Tara Mitra
Masters