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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Publications:
- Shashank Saxena successfully defended his PhD thesis “A Finite-temperature Atomistic Framework for Mass Transport in Metallic Alloys”
- Miguel Spinola Fandila successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Finite-temperature quasistatic atomistics from Gaussian phase packets: application to grain boundaries and glasses.”
Awards:
- Dr. Jan-Hendrik Bastek was honored as one of the recipients of the SWICCOMAS PhD Thesis Award 2025
Research Experience
Research Projects:
- Modeling and characterizing ferroelectric materials across scales
- Extremely resilient nanolabyrinthine materials
- Structural metamaterials made in-house
- Machine learning for the inverse design of architected materials
Background
Research Interests: Multiscale modeling of materials, ferroelectric ceramics, magnesium alloys, negative stiffness, 3D printing, machine learning, etc. Brief Introduction: Leads the Mechanics & Materials Lab, dedicated to discovering why materials behave the way they do and pioneering novel materials with exceptional properties and performance.