Principal Investigator
Douglas P. Holmes
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
730 Commonwealth Ave., Room 213
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 358-1294
dpholmes [at] bu [dot] edu
Graduate Students
Keenan Wood
Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Shenglong Li
M.S. Student
Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
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Alumni
Sanika Barve, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2025)
Thesis: Functional Deformations in Thin Sheets and Textiles
Martin Brandenbourger, Ph.D.
Boston University
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2016-2017.
Amani Campbell, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: The Mechanics of Fiber Confinement and Self-Entanglement: From Elastogranular Columns to Knotting in Curved Rods
Hsin-Huei Chen
Boston University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2024)
Mo Eydani
Boston University
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2018-2019.
Austin Fergusson
Virginia Tech
M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (2014)
Thesis: Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Nanoscale Soft Matter Deformation
Kate Flanagan
Boston University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2019)
Callan Gillespie
Virginia Tech
M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (2014)
Arman Guerra, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (2023)
Thesis: Elastogranular Structures: Deformable Objects in Contact
Xin Jiang, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2019)
Thesis: Stability of Highly Nonlinear Structures
Casey Lautzenhiser, M.S.
Boston University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2021)
Jeong-Ho Lee 이 정 호, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2021)
Co-Advisor: Prof. Harold S. Park
Thesis: Stimuli-Responsive Shell Theory
Ahmad Rezaei Mojdehi, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (2017)
Co-Advisor: Prof. David Dillard
Thesis: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Friction and Adhesion of
Elastomeric Materials
Jairaj Narendran
Boston University
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering
Thesis: Functional Nonlinearities Enable Compliance-Switching in Elastogranular Structures
Anupam Pandey
Virginia Tech
M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (2014)
Thesis: Bending, Creasing, and Snapping of Soft, Slender Structures
Matteo Pezzulla, Ph.D.
Boston University
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2015-2017.
Jay Schunter, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2020)
Thesis: Elastogranular Mechanics: Far-from-Equilibrium Behaviors of Thin Elastic Structures Deforming in Granular Matter
Lucia Stein-Montalvo, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2021)
Thesis: Shape-Shifting and Instabilities of Plates and Shells
Behrouz Tavakol, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (2015)
Thesis: Buckling at the Fluid–Soft Solid Interface
Yi Yang 杨溢, Ph.D.
Boston University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2021)
Thesis: Functional Kirigami by Exploiting Elastic Instabilities