Rainbow

Principal Investigator

gonella

Stefano Gonella             

James L. Record Professor  

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering  LINK

Email: sgonella(at)umn.edu
Office: CivE Building, Room 154
Education: Georgia Tech (PhD, Aerospace Engineering, 2007;  MS, Aerospace Engineering, 2005), Politecnico di Torino (Laurea, Aerospace Engineering, 2003)

 

Graduate Students

 

Mohammad
Pegah

 

serg

Mohammad Charara   PhD student

Email: [email protected]

Research topics: Elastic metamaterials; Topological mechanics

Education: University of Oklahoma - MS, Mechanical Engineering, 2019   
Education: UCLA - BS, Aerospace Engineering, 2015   

Pegah Azizi   PhD student

Email: [email protected]

Research topics: Elastic metamaterials; Topological mechanics 

Education: Sharif University of Technology - MS, Structural Engineering, 2021
Education: Sharif University of Technology - BS, Civil Engineering, 2019

Sergio Vitor Britto Santos   PhD student

Email: [email protected]

Research topics: Elastic metamaterials; Topological mechanics 

Education: Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) - MS, Mechanical Engineering, 2022
Education: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - BS, Materials Engineering, 2019

Undergraduate Researchers

 

Alumni

Postdocs

  • Jihong Ma - Now Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont
  • Kuan Zhang - Now Data Scientist at Mayo Clinic

PhD students

  • Paolo Celli - Now Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University
  • Jeff Druce - Now Senior Research Scientist at Charles River Analytics
  • R. Ganesh - Now Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 
  • Weijian Jiao - Now Assistant Professor at Tongji University 

MS students

  • Caleb Widstrand - Now Geotechnical Engineer at Ground Improvement Engineering

Visiting PhD students

  • Luca Iorio - Now PhD Student at Politecnico di Milano

Visiting MS (Thesis) students

  • Matteo Amorusi - Now at Maserati
  • Davide Cardella - Now at Fiat-Crysler Automobiles

Undergraduate Students

  • Dan Balder - Now at SunRay Scientific
  • Nathan Bausman - Now at MnDOT
  • Alec Logeman - Now at Stratasys
  • Berit Klein - Now Graduate Student at UMN
  • Weiting Zhang - Now at architecture Studio Akkerhuis
  • William Zunker - Now Graduate Student at MIT

 

Current Collaborators