Tag Archive | postdocs
MMD Lab at SES
MMD lab members Ellen van Wijngaarden, Si Chen, Jaehee Lee, and Meredith Silberstein all presented at the Society of Engineering Science annual technical meeting in Atlanta last week. The team also caught up with MMD alumni Rob Wagner (now faculty at Binghamton University) and Allison Rzepka (now a PhD student at University of Illinois)!
New Paper in Nature Communications
Our lab is excited to share that Dr. Si Chen, ELMI and Fleming Postdoctoral Fellow, is the first author of our new paper, “Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development,” published in Nature Communications. This interdisciplinary study, at the interface of solid mechanics and plant developmental biology, was made possible […]
Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems GRC
Max Tepermeister and Si Chen participated Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference at the end of January in sunny Ventura, CA. This year’s theme was Active and Biomimetic Materials That Embody Intelligence. Si presented her work on engineering mechanics and growth of plant leaves. And Max won best […]
Welcome new MMD lab members
Welcome to our three new MMD lab members! In order of official joining . . . Zach Bernheimer is a first year MSE PhD student with a background in chemistry and computer science. Dr. Dongxu Liu is a postdoc with extensive experience in multiphysics constitutive modeling of soft materials, especially focusing on synthetic and biological […]
Mesoscale Polymer Modeling
A new paper by former MMD lab postdoc Rob Wagner and Prof Meredith Silberstein is now out in JMPS. This paper, “A foundational framework for the mesoscale modeling of dynamic elastomers and gels,” presents a mesoscale modeling approach for capturing the large deformation mechanics of elastomer and gel networks with dynamic bonds. This method greatly […]
Si Chen wins Fleming Fellowship!
Congratulations to ELMI postdoc and MMD group member Dr. Si Chen for winning the Fleming Research Fellowship from the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology! The Fleming Research Fellows program was established in 2008 to support talented young women and men at Cornell who are doing cutting-edge research in basic biomedical sciences and are […]
Outreach and Orienteering
This past Thursday and Friday the MMD lab, led by PhD student Max Tepermeister, hosted a 4-H University U program for middle and high school students on Mechanics of Materials, highlighting cool features of meta-materials. Si, Jeff, Ellen, and Zhongtong all helped out! Then on Saturday we went on our first ever lab orienteering adventure, […]
Congratulations and Good Luck to Robert and Steven!
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Wagner, who is starting a tenure track faculty position in the Binghamton University Mechanical Engineering department this week! And . . . Congratulations to Dr. Steven Yang who started a postdoctoral position with Prof Nikolaos Bouklas at Cornell just before the holidays! Steven defended in the early fall and participated in […]
MMD lab goes to SES
Four MMD lab group members, PhD candidates Zhongtong Wang and Max Tepermeister, and Postdocs Si Chen and Robert Wagner, presented at the Society of Engineering Science annual conference in Minneapolis last week. Si and Robert were also selected to participate in the Future Faculty symposium! As usual Prof Silberstein did not succeed in taking a […]
Mechanics for Material Design 