Current Members

 

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

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

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

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

Daniel Liao (ME)

Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2020)

Research Focus: Batteries

Contact: danliao@umich.edu

clare Lanaghan

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

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

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

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

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