Group Members
Principle Investigator
Professor Donald Brenner
Materials Science and Engineering Department Head
Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor
Prof. Brenner received his B.S. from the State University of New York in 1982, and his Ph.D. from Penn. State University in 1987, both in Chemistry. He then joined the research staff of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a member of the Theoretical Chemistry Section. In 1994 Brenner joined the faculty at NC State, where he is currently a Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on the development and use of atomic, multi-scale and statistical modeling methods for the virtual design, development and characterization of advanced materials. His awards include the 2002 Feynman Prize for advances in nanotechnology, the 2013 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award, and the 2016 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence.
Current Group Members
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Sam Daigle | Graduate Student |
| Leah Granger | Graduate Student |
| Jon Hagelstein | Graduate Student |
| Belicia Castillo | Undergraduate Student |
Alumni
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| J. Wesley Crill | Graduate Student |
| Avinash Dongare | Senior Researcher |
| Shashi Adiga | Grad Student |
| Denis Areshkin | Grad Student |
| Hongli Dang | Postdoc |
| Sarah-Jane Frankland | Postdoc |
| Yanhong Hu | Postdoc |
| Zushou Hu | Grad Student |
| Doug Irving | Postdoc |
| Aleksey Kuznetsov | Senior Researcher |
| Dong Li | Graduate Student |
| Yanxin Li | Grad Student |
| Zhengmin Li | Postdoc |
| Shijing Lu | Graduate Student |
| Seonhee Jang | Grad Student |
| Chris O’Brien | Grad Student |
| Cliff Padgett | Postdoc |
| Yojna Purohit | Grad Student |
| Zsolt Rak | PostDoc |
| Farshad Saberi | Graduate Student |
| Olga Shenderova | Postdoc |
| Yunfeng Shi | Postdoc |
| Lipeng Sun | Postdoc |
| Zach Fitzgerald | Graduate Student |