Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Mechanical Engineering
Address
2380B
GGB (George G. Brown Laboratory)
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Email
Phone
(734) 764-4808
Degrees
PhD, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Graduate Certificate, Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
BS, Mathematical Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
Research Interests
Development of high-capacity materials and systems for energy storage applications; computational materials science; nanoscale chemistry and its impact on the mechanical properties of materials; thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations; multi-scale modeling; integrated computational materials engineering
Honors and Awards
TMS/JIM International Scholar, 2009
Publication J. Phys.: Condens. Mater 20 064228 (2008) named to "Top Papers 2008"
Special Recognition Award, U.S. Council for Automotive Research, 2008
Inventor of the Month, Ford Fuel Cell Patent Committee, 2008
U.S. National Academies/National Research Council Fellow, 2004-2005
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, 2001
U.S. Department of Education National Science Scholar, 1991-1995
Faculty Type
Tenured and Tenure-Track