Category: People
Prof. Holmes promoted to Associate Professor
Douglas Holmes, ENG, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, investigates the mechanics, physics, and geometry of slender structures (typically comprising rods, plates, and shells), working to harness material and structural instability for advanced functionality. A past NSF CAREER Award recipient, he is supported by major grants through the NSF and Department of Defense and has published a book chapter and dozens of articles in leading engineering and physics journals. He has been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure.
Xin Jiang Defends his Ph.D!
Congratulations to Dr. Xin Jiang for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Stability of Highly Nonlinear Structures: Snapping Shells and Elastogranular Columns" !
Faculty Profile: Douglas Holmes
A faculty profile of Douglas Holmes, written by Rachel Riley, for BU's Department of Mechanical Engineering: http://www.bu.edu/me/faculty-profile-douglas-holmes/
Congratulations: Gabriel Smith – Scientific Image Contest
Gabriel Smith, a LEAP student in ME@BU working in the MOSS lab won third place in the 2015 Mechanical Engineering Scientific Image Contest.
Visiting Student: Behrouz Tavakol
Virginia Tech Ph.D. Student in Engineering Mechanics, Behrouz Tavakol, will be visiting the MOSS lab for the 2014-2015 academic year as he completes his doctorate. Behrouz's research focuses on utilizing fluid-structure interactions to control and manipulation microfluidic flow. Behrouz has created and modeled flexible structures that buckle via mechanical (Soft Matter - 2013) and electrical (Soft Matter - 2014) actuation. He has also developed an extension to the classical lubrication theory approximation to model the flows within these systems (arXiv - 2014).
Welcoming Matteo Pezzulla
The MOSS lab welcomes Matteo Pezzulla, a visiting Ph.D. student from Università di Roma, Sapienza. Matteo is a graduate student studying the mechanics of solids and structures with his Ph.D. advisor, Paola Nardinocchi (Web). Professor Nardinocchi's research covers a wide range of topics within the area of Soft, Active Materials (SAM), and Matteo's interests lie in the mechanics of swelling thin plates. Thin structures that swell undergo large geometrically nonlinear deformations, and the focus of Matteo's four month visit will be to develop an experimental system whose general features can be described using techniques from differential geometry, and verified through computational modeling.
