Principal Investigator

Dr. Natasha Vermaak, Associate Professor

Dr. Vermaak earned her doctorate in Materials (2010) from the University of California Santa Barbara with Professor Anthony G. Evans. Before joining Lehigh University in 2013 as an Assistant Professor, she served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble, France. She was appointed Associate Professor in 2019.

Postdoctoral Scholars:

PhD Students:

MS Students:

Undergraduate Students:

• Hannah HUSSAIN (hah426 AT lehigh.edu); Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholar
• Athiel MADING (amm225 AT lehigh.edu)
• Matt CARBONI (mac226 AT lehigh.edu)
• Kaitlyn POUST (krp227 AT lehigh.edu)
• Anna Marie PATTI (anp926 AT lehigh.edu)

 

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GROUP ALUMNI

Postdoctoral Scholar Alumni: 

• Dr. Xiu JIA (2019-2020 @VermaakLab) [PhD, Lehigh Univ.]
• Dr. Ali CHARBAL (2017-2019 @VermaakLab) [PhD, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France]

PhD & Co-Advised PhD Alumni: 

• Dr. I. Soner CINOGLU (PhD Mechanical Engineering, 2019), “On the Cyclic Inelastic Behavior and Shakedown-Based Design of Metallic Materials and Structures: Analysis and Experiments“
• Dr. Xiu JIA (PhD Mechanical Engineering, 2019). “The Design of Tribological Composites for Multifunctional Applications: Model Development and Topology Optimization“
• Prof. Chunjian PAN (PhD Mechanical Engineering, 2018) now faculty at Shanghai University of Electric Power. “Efficient modeling of latent thermal energy storage systems for optimal design and operational research“

Visiting Graduate Student Alumni:

• Dr. Mathilde BOISSIER (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
• Prof. Florian FEPPON (Ecole Polytechnique, France). Now faculty at KU Leuven.
• Dr. Zhen ZHANG (Institute of Metals Research, China)

MS/MEng Alumni:

• Bailey BROWN, (Relativity Space) “Assessing the Efficacy of Process-Specific Topology Optimization for Direct-Ink Write 3D-Printed Hierarchical Composites and Structures“
• Yupin SHI (Hospital for Special Surgery)
• Ryan SMALE (EMD Electronics)
• Sirui LI
• Ziv ARZT (Physical Sciences Inc.) “Evaluating Models for Metallic Honeycomb Structures“
• Juan PUERTA-REYES (Victaulic).

Undergraduate Alumni:

• Annaliese CUNNIFFE,
• Stephan CHEN,
• Yupin SHI,
• Yaozhong ZHANG,
• Yangze SUN,
• Bailey BROWN,
• Justin LANDOWNE,
• Hannah KATZ,
• Emily SECHRIST,
• Ziv ARZT,
• Andrew ZDANOWICZ,
• Brittany FISHER,
• W. P. SCOTT

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Several of the Photos are by John Kish IV photography (www.johnkishiv.com)