People

The Nanomechanics Lab is comprised of faculty, staff, research scientists, post doctoral scientists, graduate students and undergraduate students.

  • Ming Dao
    Director & Principal Investigator
    Senior Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
  • Subra Suresh
    Vannevar Bush Professor Emeritus of Engineering & Former Dean of Engineering, MIT
    13th Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from October 2010 to March 2013
  • George Labonte
    Laboratory Manager

Research Scientists and Visiting Professors

  • Patrícia Almeida Carvalho
    Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
    Ph.D., Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen
  • Shou-Yi Chang
    Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • Trevor Lindley
    Professor, Imperial College, United Kingdom
    Ph.D., B.Sc., University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Post Doctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars

  • Dimitrios P. Papageorgiou
    Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, National Technical University (NTUA), Greece
    M.S., Microelectronics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
    B.S., Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
  • Yuhao Qiang
    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
    M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China
    B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, China
  • Jun Yang
    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    M.S., Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
    B.S., Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, China
  • Ting Yang
    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    B.S., Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, China

Visiting Graduate Students

  • Luca D’Andrea
    Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    B.S., Medical Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy