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).
Senior Research 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: Energy storage, Solid-state batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Postdoctoral Fellows
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Md Aslam Uddin
Education: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Kentucky (2020)
M.S. in Physical Chemistry, University of Dhaka (2012)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics and CO2 conversion
Contact: [email protected]
Ph.D. Students
Daniel Penley (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2019)
Research Focus: Nanomanufacturing, Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: [email protected]
Alondra Ortiz-Ortiz (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (2019)
Research Focus: Anti-Fouling Coatings, Nanomanufacturing
Contact: [email protected]
Daniel Liao (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Oluka Okia (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (2021)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics, Nanomanufacturing
Contact: [email protected]
Victor Vogt (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University (2022)
Research Focus: Solar Thermal, Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: [email protected]
Micah Thorpe (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2022)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Daniel Delgado (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Physics, California Institute of Technology (2021)
Research Focus: Photocatalysis, Solar Energy
Contact: [email protected]
Mengyao Zhang (ME)
Education: B.S. in Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2021)
Research Focus: Solid Mechanics
Contact: [email protected]
Hannah Faustyn (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2023)
Research Focus: Sustainable Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Alexis Luglio (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Chemistry, The College of New Jersey (2023)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Eric Roman (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2023)
Research Focus: Solid State Batteries, Mechanics
Contact: [email protected]
Davy Zeng (MSE)
Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University (2023)
Research Focus: Solid-state Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Master’s Students
Elizabeth Healy (ME)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Brown University (2021)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Tarsh Manohar (ME)
Education: B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2023)
Research Focus: Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: [email protected]
Vaishnav Madhava Das (ME)
Education: B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2023)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics, Manufacturing processes
Contact: [email protected]
Muzamil Mulla (ME)
Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, India (2023)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Yash Pathak (ISD)
Education: B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2023)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: [email protected]
Undergraduate Students
Albert Wang (ME)
Research Focus: Manufacturing Automation
Anna Poirier (ME)
Research Focus: Batteries