Alexeenko Research Team
Alina | Han | Israel | Drew | Aaron | Siva | Kudzo | Stan | Devon | Gayathri
MIKRA MEMS Radiometric Sensor and Actuator
People
- Alina Alexeenko, Professor AAE (cv.pdf)
High-Vacuum Facility Manager
Postdoctoral Associate:
Graduate Students:
- Andrew Strongrich (Ph.D.)
- Gayathri Shivkumar (Ph.D.)
- Han Luo (Ph.D.)
- Kate Fowee (Ph.D.)
- Sashank Jaiswal (Ph.D.)
- Aaron Pikus (M.S.)
- Steven Pugia (M.S.)
- Nirajan Adhikari (Ph.D.)
- Joshua Straffacia (Ph.D.)
Undergraduate Students:
- Maisie Linker (FEMTA UG Team Lead)
- Richard Brookes
Alumni:
- Dr. Tong Zhu postdoc 2016-2018
- Dr. Tatsuhiro Kodama 2017-2018
- Vaibhav Kshirsagar, MS'18
- Dr. Israel Sebastiao Ph.D.'17
- Dr. Devon Parkos Ph.D.'17
- Dr. Cem Pekardan Ph.D.'17
- Aizhan Ibrayeva M.S.'17
- Dr. Siva Sashank Tholeti Ph.D.'16
- Dr. Marat Kulakhmetov Ph.D.'16
- Dr. Anthony Cofer Ph.D.'15
- William O'Neill M.S.'15
- Nikhil Varma M.S.'15
- Dr. Andrew Weaver Ph.D.'15
- Dr. Arnab Ganguly Ph.D.'14
- Di Huang M.S.'14
- Dr. Wei Su 2013-2014
- Dr. Venkattraman Ayyaswamy Ph.D.'12
- Dr. Sruti Chigullapalli Ph.D. '11
- Jeremy Nabeth M.S.'10
- Dr. Xiaohui (Sandy) Guo Ph.D. '09
- Dr. William (Ben) Stein Ph.D. '08
News & Announcements
- 2019-Jan: Kudos to Maisie Linker and team for winning best student paper award at AIAA SciTech. Read more...
- 2018-Aug: Congrats to Tong and Israel on their new jobs helping make life saving medicines at AbbVie and Pfizer!
- 2018-Aug: NASA Flight Opportunities program selects FEMTA for spaceflight testing on Blue Origin launch. Read more...
- 2018-May: Jay Melosh and Alina Alexeenko Op-Ed Tesla’s space-cruising Roadster is carrying a huge load of Earth’s germs
- 2017-Dec: NASA STMD selects our FEMTA project as one of 9 new university collaborations for SmallSat technologies for deep space exploration. Read more...
- 2017-Sep: LyoHUB launches 10-year Lyophilization Technology Roadmap at 2017 ISLFD East meeting in Cambridge, MA. Read more...
- 2017-Aug: "New CubeSat propulsion system uses water as propellant"
- 2017-June: Congrats to Gayathri Shivkumar for being selected as invited participant at 2017 Women in Aerospace Symposium.
- 2017-May: Kudos to Gayathri Shivkumar for receiving 2017 Outstanding Student Paper Award at IEEE ICOPS for her paper "Modeling of Capacitively Coupled Discharge with Non-sinusoidal Input Waveform". Read more...
- 2016-Aug: Congratulations to Siva for defending his PhD dissertation "Particle Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Field Emission Drive RF Microplasmas" and starting as Applications Engineer at COMSOL.
- 2016-June: Congratulations to Marat for defending his PhD dissertation "Upscaling Ab Initio Chemistry Models to Non-Equilibrium Flow Simulations" and starting as a rocket scientist at Blue Origin.
- 2016-Apr: Kudos to Drew Strongrich for receiving 2016 Dr. Thomas Jennings student award at International Society of Lyophilization/Freeze-Drying conference in Chicago. Read more...
- 2016-March: Gayathri Shivkumar and Siva Tholeti's research on plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of carbon nanopetals in collaboration with Purdue ME Prof Tim Fisher's group is featured on the cover of March 21 2016 issue of Journal of Applied Physics. Read more...
- 2016-Feb: LyoHUB demo facility opens to users. The facility provides state-of-the-art lyophilization laboratory equipment for applications in bio/pharmaceutical R&D, materials science and vacuum technology
- 2015-Apr: Kudos to Israel Sebastiao for receiving 2015 Dr. Thomas Jennings student award at International Society of Lyophilization/Freeze-Drying conference in Chicago. Read more...
- 2015-Apr: Prof. Alexeenko named University Faculty Scholar. Read more...
- 2015-Feb: Congratulations to Andrew Weaver for defending his PhD dissertation "Assessment of High-Fidelity Collision Models for the DSMC Method".
- Earlier news...