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Soft Materials and Structures Lab: Spring 2024

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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Junsik Choi
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Brittan Wilcox
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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Dane Wedgeworth
Graduate Student
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Hugh Grennan
Graduate Student
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John Joyce
Graduate Student
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Sai Balusu
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Taeyoon Oh
Graduate Student
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Sangin Kim
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Megan Reese
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Kelly Smith
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Ryan Rothermel
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Marco Cecchi-Rivas
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Michael Voight
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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
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Lin Ma
PhD Graduate
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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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Daniel Albacarys
Master’s Graduate
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Ahmed Elashwah
Master’s Graduate
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Dong Hae Ho
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Chanhong Lee
PhD Graduate
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ALUMNI

Changhyun Oh
Rosario Montana
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Edward Chang
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Ivan Li

Daniel Adjei
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Juan Barreto Jerez
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Ethan Camacho
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Sourish Vishwanatham
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Harrison Zima
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Aldo Heredia
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Hugo Carranza
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Bin Sun
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Anna Ingram
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Camryn Mills
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Austin Via

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

Tyler Kirscht

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