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Soft Materials and Structures Lab: Fall 2023

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Michael Bartlett
Principal Investigator

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech
mbartlett@vt.edu
(540) 231-4886

Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D., Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013
B.S.E., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, 2008

Selected Honors and Awards

NSF CAREER Award (2023)
Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award (2022)
Small Rising Star (2022)
ONR Young Investigator (YIP) Award (2021)
Soft Matter Emerging Investigator (2021)
ICTAS Junior Faculty Award (2021)
DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2020)
Adhesion Society Early Career Scientist Award (2020)
DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) (2018)
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2017)
Outstanding Faculty Award- ISU Engineering Student Council (Student nominated) (2017)
Alan Gent Distinguished Student Award – Adhesion Society (2013)
Frank J. Padden Jr. Award (Finalist) – American Physical Society (2013)

POSTDOCS & GRADUATE STUDENTS

Ravi Tutika
Research Scientist
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Dong Hae Ho
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Brittan Wilcox
Graduate Student
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Chanhong Lee
Graduate Student
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Wuzhou Zu
Graduate Student
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Yeunhee Kim
Graduate Student
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Ohnyoung Hur
Graduate Student
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Ella Williams
Graduate Student
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Ahmed Elashwah
Graduate Student
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Dane Wedgeworth
Graduate Student
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Hugh Grennan
Graduate Student
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John Joyce
Graduate Student
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Daniel Albacarys
Graduate Student
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Aldo Heredia
Hugo Carranza
Daniel Adjei
Anna Ingram
Camryn Mills
Juan Barreto Jerez
Ethan Camacho
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POSTDOC and GRADUATE STUDENT ALUMNI

Dohgyu Hwang
PhD Graduate
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A B M Tahidul Haque
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ravi Tutika
PhD Graduate
Lin Ma
PhD Graduate
Yuanye Jiang
Masters Graduate
Ted Barron
PhD Graduate
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Jonathan Charleston
PhD Graduate
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Tyler Pozarycki
Master’s Graduate
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Gwyneth Schloer
Master’s Graduate
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ALUMNI

Austin Via
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Anna Hahn
Sai Balusu
Chloe Alexander
Gunnar Copeland
Daniel Pappas
Neal Klemba
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Max Wagner
Gwyneth Schloer
Cole Haverkamp
Sarah O’Malley
Rachel Byrum
Orion Staskal
Luis Granadillo
Elizabeth Barr
Ray Peterson
Julie Mills
Adam Eichhorn
Claire Palmer
Chanhong Lee
Tyanna Whitaker
Griffin Stout
Katie Trent
Matthew Wheaton
Morgan Stecklein
Matthew Swift
Edward Wagner
Sean Frey
Jose Perez Gonzalez
Amy Willers
Tyler Kirscht
Nicholas Huetter