Principal Investigator
Dr. Arvind Agarwal
Email: agarwala@fiu.edu
Office: EC3474
Phone Number: (305) 348-1701
Principal Investigator
Distinguished University Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Plasma and Cold Spray based Additive Manufacturing; Surface Engineering; Spark Plasma Sintering; Boron Nitride Nanotube and Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites and Coatings; Graphene Foam; Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics; Nanomechanics and Nanotribology; Nanomechanics of Bio and Soft Materials
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Tanaji Paul
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Cold Spray, Wire Arc 3D printing, Ultrasonic casting, BNNT-composites, Nano-Mechanics, Metallic Glass
Email: tpaul@fiu.edu
Office: EC2659
Dr. Ambreen Nisar
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Ultra High Temperature Ceramics; CNT Reinforced Composites; Functionally Graded Ceramics; Surface Engineering
Email: anisar@fiu.edu
Office: EC2656
Dr. Lihua Lou
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Fabrication and environmental/biomedical applications of electrospinning nanofiber or nanofiber/functional matters composites; Nano-mechanics of functional materials
Email: llou@fiu.edu
Office: EC2656
Research Associate
Tyler Dolmetsch
Research Associate
Research Interests
Nanomechanics and In-situ Mechanics of Advanced Materials
Email: tdolmets@fiu.edu
Office: OU121A
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Luiza Benedetti
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
High-performance polymers, polymer nanocomposites, 2D materials, foams, shape-memory polymers, additive manufacturing
Email: lbenedet@fiu.edu
Office: EC2655
Dr. Sohail Mohammed
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
Fatigue & Fracture, Material Characterization, CNT Reinforced Composites, Lightweight Materials, Powder Metallurgy, Welding & Joining, Heterogeneous & Hybrid Composites, Solid Mechanics
Email: smohamme@fiu.edu
Office: EC2655
Doctoral Students
Riddhi Joshi
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Object Oriented Finite Element Analysis (OOF2), Simulating Computational Microstructure, Additive Manufacturing, Mechanical Property Estimation, and Thermal Spray
Email: rjosh009@fiu.edu
Office: EC3180
Giuseppe Bianco
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to material sciences and manufacturing
Email: gbian007@fiu.edu
Office: EC3180
Abhijith Sukumaran
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Thermal spray ( APS & VPS ) , Cold Spray, In-flight particle diagnostics, Additive manufacturing, Extreme environments, Tribology, Aerospace erosion, Composite materials for radiation shielding, Powder metallurgy and spray drying.
Email: asuku002@fiu.edu
Office: OU121B
Denny John
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Cold Spray, Powder Engineering for AM, Advanced Mechanical Characterization
Email: djohn286@fiu.edu
Office: OU121B
Blanca Palacios
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, Mechanical properties of Advanced Materials, Mechatronics systems applied to material sciences
Email: bpala021@fiu.edu
Office: OU121B
Omar Ali Blandon
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Industrial and experimental research, advanced materials behavior and applications, polymeric materials, nanofibers, process and product development/scalability under experimental and industrial conditions
Email: oblan021@fiu.edu
Kazue Orikasa Lopez
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
2D Material Nanocomposites, Polymer Nanocomposites, Freeze-Drying Processing, 3D Printing, Mechanical Reinforcements, Thermal Properties, Radiation Shielding Properties
Email: korik001@fiu.edu
Office: EC3232
Anil Lama
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Cold Spray, Friction Stir, Advanced Material Characterization, Lightweight materials
Email: alama043@fiu.edu
Office: OU121B
Brandon Aguiar
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Ultrasonic Treatment on Aluminum and High Speed imaging
Email: bagui020@fiu.edu
Office: EC3180
Arghyadip Ojha
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
2D materials, Nano-mechanics, Anisotropic properties, DFT
Email: aojha002@fiu.edu
Office: MME Students Cubicles
Rony Thomas
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Electrospinning, 3D printing, 2D Materials, Polymer nanocomposites, Radiation shielding
Email: rmuri011@fiu.edu
Office: MME Students Cubicles
Somnath Somadder
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, Multiscale Modeling, Corrosion analysis, Impact Dynamics, Composite Materials, Solid Mechanics
Email: ssoma012@fiu.edu
Office: MME Students Cubicles
Suleiman Muktari
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Polymer Nano Composites, 2D Materials, Additive Manufacturing
Email: smukt001@fiu.edu
Office: MME Students Cubicles
Master Students
Jorge Carreno
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Interests
Corrosion inhibition
Email: jcarr269@fiu.edu
Undergraduate Students
Katrina Rodriguez
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests
Corrosion of Additively Manufactured Parts
Email: krodr393@fiu.edu
Gia Garino
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests
Ultra High Temperature Ceramics and aerospace coatings
Email: ggari005@fiu.edu
Aleksander Aleman
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing, Metals, Polymers, Welding processes
Email: aalem025@fiu.edu
Arya Bhadrakumar Nair
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests
Mechanical Properties of Soft Materials and Biomaterials
Email: abhad003@fiu.edu
Anthony Gonzalez
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests
Chemical and Materials Inventory Management
Email: agonz1549@fiu.edu
Zachary Rivera
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests
High-performance polymer composites, Shape-memory polymers, 2D material foams
Email: zrive017@fiu.edu
Courtesy Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Cheng Zhang
Courtesy Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests
Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs); Graphene Foam (GrF) and Ceramics-GrF Composites; Spark Plasma Sintering, Plasma Spray and Cold Spray
Email: chenzhan@fiu.edu
Research Coordinator
Beatriz Morillo
ColRAD: Cold Spray and Rapid Deposition Research Coordinator CELL-MET Coordinator at FIU
Email: bmorillo@fiu.edu
Phone: (305)-348-9945
