Season 5

Episode 1 (September 3, 2022)

Emily D. Sanders

Assistant Professor

Georgia Tech.

Optimization-based design and advanced manufacturing of multiscale structures

Episode 2 (September 10, 2022)

Xiaoyue Ni

Assistant Professor

Duke University

Human-centered materials intelligence via epidermal electronics and active metamaterials

Episode 3 (September 17, 2022)

Jingyuan Chen

Instructor

Incoming Assistant Professor

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Harvard Medical School

Advancing neuroimaging to extract neural and physiological dynamics

Mohamed Abdelmeguid

Ph.D., UIUC

Postdoc, Caltech

Modeling of Earthquake Cycles with High Resolution Fault Zone Physics

Episode 4 (September 24, 2022)

Jakub Mikula

Scientist I,

Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore

Phase field modelling of inelastic deformations and grain boundaries (nanocrystalline materials)

Lianne Brito

Ph.D.

University of Colorado Boulder.


Design and Construction of a Deformation Measurement System for Dynamic Centrifuge Modeling of Layered Liquefiable Soils

Episode 5 (October 1, 2022)

Victoria (Tori) Miller

Assistant Professor

University of Florida

Liquid Metal Embrittlement: Cracking open the disparate mechanisms

Episode 6 (October 8, 2022)

Estelle Berthier

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow

LMU MĂĽnchen

Nonlinear mechanosensation in fibrous networks

Xiaojia Wang

Postdoctoral Assistant Professor

University of Michigan

Reduced modeling and global instability of low-Reynolds-number flows through compliant microchannels

Episode 7 (October 15, 2022)

Archana Arbind

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology

General higher-order one dimensional and shell theories for pipe like soft structures using orthonormal’s moving frame with potential application in biomechanics

Vigneshwaran Radhakrishnan

Ph.D.

Texas A&M University

A Predictive Multisurface Approach to Damage Modeling in Mg Alloys

Episode 8 (October 22, 2022)

Valère Lambert

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California Santa Cruz

Scale dependence of critical stress for frictional rupture: Implications for earthquake statistics and inferences of fault stress

Shuna Ni

Assistant Professor

University of Maryland

A Risk-informed Framework for Evaluating the Structural Fire Safety of Buildings

Episode 9 (October 29, 2022)

Raudel Avila

Ph.D.

Northwestern University

A mechanics model for injectable electrochemical microsystems in drug delivery

Xingbo Yang

Postdoc

Harvard University

Biophysics of energy metabolism in vivo

Episode 10 (November 05, 2022)

Guangyu Bao

Research Scientist

SanaHeal Inc.

Fabrication and integration of microstructured tough hydrogels for biomedical use

Silvia Sellán

Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Breaking Good: Fracture Modes for Realtime Destruction

Episode 11 (November 12, 2022)

Dawa Seo

Postdoc

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Particle Shape Evolution in the Crushable Sand during Confined Comminution

Luis Ruiz Pestana

Assistant Professor

University of Miami

Decoding the relationship between static structure and creep in glasses

Episode 12 (November 19, 2022)

Fang-Yi “Ida” Su

Postdoc

Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine

In vivo mRNA Delivery to Antigen-specific T cells by Antigen-presenting Nanoparticles

Lichao Fang

Postdoc

Stanford University

Physics and data-driven models of process, microstructure, and mechanical properties in metal additive manufacturing

Episode 13 (December 3, 2022)

Emma Lejeune

Assistant Professor

Boston University

Open Access Benchmark Datasets and Metamodels for Problems in Mechanics

Patrick Walgren

Postdoc

Air Force Research Laboratory

Nonlinear Substructures via Computational Plasticity for Efficient Design

Episode 14 (December 10, 2022)

Mengying Liu

Assistant Professor

Washington and Lee University

In situ investigation of hydrogen embrittlement in alloy 725

Yuwei Zhang

Postdoc

Texas A&M University

Ultra-high strain rate deformation of metals via nanoindentation

Episode 15 (December 17, 2022)

Manish Vasoya

Postdoc

Texas A&M University

Brittle-to-ductile transition in (notch) fracture toughness of

glasses as a manifestation of rate, age, and geometry.

Wei Wang

Ph.D.

Cornell University

CMOS circuit integrated intelligent microscopic structures: from actuators to devices