Principal Investigator
Neil Dasgupta
Associate Professor, Miller Faculty Scholar
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC),
“Mechano-Chemical Understanding of Solid Ion Conductors (MUSIC)”
Neil Dasgupta completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 2011 with Prof. Fritz Prinz. Prior to joining UM in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Peidong Yang. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (YIP), the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, the AVS Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award, the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, a Scialog Fellowship in Advanced Energy Storage, the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, and a U. S. Department of Energy EERE Postdoctoral Research Award (SunShot Fellowship).
Postdoctoral Fellows
Manoj Jangid
Education: Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2019)
B. Tech & M. Tech in Nanotechnology, University of Rajasthan (2012)
Research Focus: Electrochemical Energy Storage (solid-state batteries)
Contact: manojj@umich.edu
Srinivas Yadavalli
Education: Ph.D. in Materials Engineering, Brown University (2021)
B-Tech and M-Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2016)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics, Solid-state Batteries
Contact: syadaval@umich.edu
Younggyu Kim
Education: Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University (2017)
Research Focus: Solid-state Batteries
Contact: younggyu@umich.edu
Si Young Lee
Education: Ph.D. in Energy Engineering, KIST School, Korea University of Science and Technology (2021)
B.S. in Chemistry, Kyung-Hee University (2015)
Research Focus: Electrocatalysts, CO2 reduction, in situ/operando analysis (XAS/Raman)
Contact: siyoungl@umich.edu
Ph.D. Students
Tae Cho (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2018)
Research Focus: Nanomanufacturing, Printable Electronics
Contact: taecho@umich.edu
Daniel Penley (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2019)
Research Focus: Nanomanufacturing, Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: dpenley@umich.edu
Alondra Ortiz-Ortiz (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (2019)
Research Focus: Anti-Fouling Coatings, Nanomanufacturing
Contact: aortizor@umich.edu
Daniel Liao (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: danliao@umich.edu
Clare Lanaghan (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University (2020)
B.S. in Physics, Beloit College (2018)
Research Focus: Solar energy
Contact: lanaghan@umich.edu
Oluka Okia (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (2021)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics, Nanomanufacturing
Contact: ookia@umich.edu
Victor Vogt (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University (2022)
Research Focus: Solar Thermal, Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: vavogt@umich.edu
Micah Thorpe (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2022)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: micahtho@umich.edu
Daniel Delgado (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Physics, California Institute of Technology (2021)
Research Focus: Photocatalysis, Solar Energy
Contact: danieldc@umich.edu
Mengyao Zhang (ME)
Education: B.S. in Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2021)
Research Focus: Solid Mechanics
Contact: zmyao@umich.edu
Hannah Faustyn (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2023)
Research Focus: Sustainable Batteries
Contact: hfaustyn@umich.edu
Alexis Luglio (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Chemistry, The College of New Jersey (2023)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: aluglio@umich.edu
Eric Roman (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2023)
Research Focus: Solid State Batteries, Mechanics
Contact: ericrom@umich.edu
Davy Zeng (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University (2023)
Research Focus: Solid-state Batteries
Contact: davyzeng@umich.edu
Master’s Students
Elizabeth Healy (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Brown University (2021)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: ehealy@umich.edu
Harshad Honwad (ME)
Education: B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology (India) (2021)
Research Focus: Solid State Batteries
Contact: harshadh@umich.edu
Undergraduate Students
Albert Wang (ME)
Research Focus: Manufacturing Automation
Anna Poirier (ME)
Research Focus: Batteries
Matthew Solar (ME)
Research Focus: Solid-state batteries