People
Post-Doctoral Researchers


Michela Sanguedolce
Fischell Institute Young Investigator
Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Surgical Tools
Doctoral Students

Kieran Barvenik
Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Instabilities of Shells, FEA, Mechanical Metamaterials

Michael Ritchie Bonthron
Clark Doctoral Fellow Mid-Career Award
Research Interests: Mechanical Metamaterials, Wave Propagation, Soft Robotics

Petra Budavari
Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Mechanical Metamaterials, FEA, Fluid-Structure Interactions

Joseph C. Messou
Research Interests: Biomedical Imaging, Machine Learning, Aortic Dissection, Fluid-Structure Interactions

Lucas Muller
Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Instabilities of Shells, FEA, Fluid-Structure Interactions
MS Students


Undegraduate Students



Terrence Pierce
Research Interests: Mechanical Metamaterials, Wave Propagations, Fluid-Structure Interactions