Team
Principal Investigator
Dr. Ananya Renuka Balakrishna
Materials Department, UCSB
ananyabalakrishna@ucsb.edu
Materials Department, UCSB
ananyabalakrishna@ucsb.edu
Ananya is interested in how patterns form in materials and how those patterns in turn affect the materials behavior.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Tao Zhang
Materials Department, UCSB
tao.zhang@kit.edu
Materials Department, UCSB
tao.zhang@kit.edu
Tao is investigating how battery materials fracture and how microstructural patterns form during charge/discharge cycles.
Ph.D. Students
Delin Zhang
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
delinzha@usc.edu
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
delinzha@usc.edu
Delin is conducting research on how battery microstructures can be crystallographically designed to mitigate volume changes and internal stresses.
Devesh Tiwari
Materials Department, UCSB
deveshti@usc.edu
Materials Department, UCSB
deveshti@usc.edu
Devesh is studying how light induces phase transformation in organo-metallic compounds causing them to bend, twist, or stretch.
Negar Ahani
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
ahani@usc.edu
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
ahani@usc.edu
Negar is studying how magnetoelastic interactions affect hysteresis.
Alumni
