PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Nasim Alem

Nasim Alem

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University

Office: N-210 Millennium Science Complex University Park, PA 16802
Email: nua10@psu.edu​​

Education:

  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
  • B.S., Metallurgical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Departmental Website

ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR

We are hiring!

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari

Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari

Ph.D. Student

Email: sfa5683@psu.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2021 – present
  • M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA, 2019-2021
  • Bachelor’s in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India, 2015-2019
Andrew Balog

Andrew Balog

Ph.D. Student

Email: arb6059@psu.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, 2021 – present
  • B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2017-2021 (minor in Business)
Yuxi Zhang

Yuxi Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Email: yuxi@psu.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Aug. 2022 – present
  • B.Eng., Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Sep. 2018-Jun. 2022

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Jacob Hannon

Jacob Hannon

Email: jmh6475@psu.edu

Education:

  • BSc., Penn State, Materials Science and Engineering – Present
Jae Won You

Jae Won You

Email: jaewanyou@psu.edu

Education:

  • BSc., Penn State, Materials Science & Engineering – Present

ALUMNI

RESEARCH PROFESSORS

Dr. Danielle R Hickey

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, PSU

Dr. Maryam Tabatabaei

Assistant Research Professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, PSU

Anuj Bisht

Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Dr. Adrian Chmielewski

Postdoctoral Researcher, CEMES-CNRS, France

Dr. Greg Stone

Physical Scientist, US Army

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Dr. Amin Azizi

TSMC

Saiphaneendra Bachu

TEM Analysis Engineer, Samsung

Dr. Stephen Juhl

Research Scientist at Dupont

Dr. Leixin Miao

TD Module & Integration Yield Engineer, Intel

Dr. Parivash Moradifar

Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford university

Dr. Debangshu Mukherjee

Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab

Fu Zhang

Intel

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Mohammed Abu Alsad

Materials Engineer at Aramco

Chenhao Qian

M.S. Student at University of Pennsylvania

Lauren Stanton

Senior Process Engineer, SkyWater