September 2025: Sojib and Rubayet's paper is accepted in the Journal of Applied Mechanics. Congratulations!

September 2025: Sojib and Rubayet's paper is accepted in the Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Congratulations!

September 2025: We welcome our new member of the group Obaidul Hasan as a Ph.D. student.

August 2025: Rubayet and Sojib attended the 2025 Computational Materials Science Summer School (CMS3 - FAST) at Texas A&M University. 

July 2025: Fatemeh gave a talk on "Buckling and imperfection sensitivity of fluctuating nanostructures" at the 18TH U.S. NATIONAL CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS in Chicago.

June 2025: We welcome our new member of the group Angelina Banas as an undergratuate researcher!

June 2025: Sojib and Rubayet's paper is accepted in Applied Mechanics Reviews. Congratulations!

May 2025: Rubayet and Anh's paper is accepted in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Congratulations!

February 2025: Rubayet and Sojib were  awarded full fellowship to attend the 2025 Computational Materials Science Summer School (CMS3 - FAST) at Texas A&M University. Congratulations!!

January 2025: Rubayet's paper is accepted in the Journal of Applied Mechanics. Congratulations!

January 2025: Sojib successfully passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam! Congratulations Sojib!

December 2024: Rubayet has successfully defended his doctoral proposal! Congratulations Rubayet!

December 2024: Fatemeh has received the prestigious MECMAT Young Investigator Award.

November 2024: Rubayet, Sojib and Anh presented their projects at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in Portland, OR.

November 2024: Fatemeh delivered an invited talk for the Jack and Ann Waddey Seminar Series of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University. 

October 2024: Rubayet, Sojib and Anh presented their projects at AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. Read about Rubayet's research here and here, and Sojib's research here, and Anh's research here.

August 2024: Fatemeh has co-organized a symposium on Advances in Multiscale Modeling and Nanomechanics for SES Annual Meeting in China.

June 2024: Fatemeh is invited to participate in a NSF proposal review panel for EPSCoR program.

April 2024: Fatemeh has received the NCE Rising Star Research Award. 

March 2024: Fatemeh is invited to serve as a reviewer for NASA EPSCoR program.

February 2024: The PNAS paper "A minimal physics-based model for musical perception" is selected for the prestigious PNAS Cozzarelli Award in Class III, Engineering and Applied Sciences. Read the news here.

December 2023: Rubayet successfully passed his qualifying exam! Congratulations!

November 2023: Rubayet's first paper is accepted in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Congratulations!

November 2023: Dr. Anh Vo joined our group as a postdoc researcher. Welcome to the team Anh!

October 2023: NJIT has published an article about our recent NSF CAREER Award. 

October 2023: Rubayet presented his work at SES annual meetings.

September 2023: Fatemeh presented an invited talk in the Emerging Topics in Mechanics workshop in Houston, honoring the 60th anniversary of her postdoc advisor Professor Huajian Gao.

September 2023: Sojib Kaisar joined our group. Welcome to the team Sojib!

August 2023: We have received a new grant in collaboration with Professor Samaneh Farokhirad from NSF- CBET for our proposal on “Adhesion and Self-Assembly of Flexible Nanofilaments on Biological Membranes”.

June 2023: Fatemeh is invited to participate in a NSF proposal review panel for EPSCoR program.

June 2023: Fatemeh has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for her proposal on “Fundamentals of Entropy-driven Mechanics of Flexible Nanostructures”.

March 2023: Fatemeh has co-organized a symposium on Advanced Manufacturing of 2D Materials at the Atomic Scale for MRS Spring Meetings, in San Francisco, CA.

January 2023: Our paper on A minimal physics-based model for musical perception is published in PNAS.

November 2022: Fatemeh is invited to participate in a NSF proposal review panel for CMMI MOMS program.

November 2022: Our paper on Entropic interactions of 2D materials with cellular membranes: Parallel versus perpendicular approaching modes in published in Mechanics of Materials.

November 2022: Fatemeh wrote an invited article for iMechanical Journal Club.

September 2022: Rubayet Hassan joined our group. Welcome to the team Rubayet!

June 2022: Fatemeh has co-organized a symposium on Mechanics of Multifunctional Low-Dimensional Materials for United States National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, in Austin TX.

March 2022: Fatemeh is invited to attend the Emerging Topics in Mechanics workshop in Houston, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Professor Yonggang Huang.

December 2021: Our paper on Flexoelectricity and the entropic force between fluctuating fluid membranes is now published in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids.

April 2021: We have received the NSF-I Corps Site grant at NJIT!

November 2019: Fatemeh presented her research at the IMECE conference in Salt Lake City, UT

October 2019: Fatemeh presented an invited talk at the SES Annual Meeting, at Washington University in St. Louis

September 2019: We started our group here at NJIT!