Catherine Klapperich

Dr. Klapperich’s research is focused on engineering medical devices for trans women’s and women’s health, use in low resource settings, and at the point of care. Current projects include on-body physiological monitoring, disposable microfluidic diagnostics and minimally instrumented devices to enable molecular testing. Her work includes diagnostics for CT-NG, HPV and other sexually transmitted infections. […]

Emma Lejeune

Emma Lejeune is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Professor Lejeune’s background is in the area of computational mechanics and computational biomechanics. Her research is focused on leveraging the state of the art in computational mechanics to investigate multiscale emergent behavior in biological systems and inform patient-specific medical protocols. Current areas of […]

Xi Ling

The Ling Group focuses their research interests on the fundamental science and applications of nanomaterials and their hybrid structures. They aim to use their interdisciplinary knowledge to (1) explore chemistry approaches to achieve new 2D materials and multifunctional hybrid structures in a controlled manner, (2) reveal the physical nature of such nanomaterials and the interface […]

Sean Lubner

Professor Lubner specializes in nano-to-macro energy transport and conversion, and has worked on a variety of energy-related systems including biomedical devices, electrochemical and thermal energy storage systems, solid state energy conversion devices, machine learning models, and water desalination. Lubner works extensively with both industry and academia, and holds numerous joint patents and publications. Previous REU/RET […]

Jerome Mertz

2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Dr. Mertz and team work on the development of new microscopy techniques for biomedical imaging in their lab. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Imaging Cardiac Organoids with Laser Speckle (REU, 2024) Imaging Gas Vesicle Dynamics (REU, 2023) Imaging Neuromelanin With Darkfield Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy (REU, 2021)

Elise Morgan

Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Bone Quantity and Bone Quality in Osteoarthritis (2016)

Roberto Paiella

2026 REU Project: Semiconductor nanofabrication process development for computational image sensors Professor Paiella’s research interests include plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metasurface-enhanced optoelectronics, terahertz photonics, and device physics and applications of semiconductor quantum structures and 2D materials. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Manufacturing of Lens-Free Image Sensors for Ultrasmall Compound-Eye Cameras (REU, 2016) Manufacturing of Group-IV Semiconductor Nanomembranes […]

Abigail Plummer*

2026 REU Project: Hydrogel Instabilities Professor Plummer’s research explores how materials deform and adapt in complex environments, combining theory, experiment and simulation. Projects are motivated by a wide range of questions in biology/medicine, materials science, and earth science.

Siddharth Ramachandran

Professor Ramachandran and team focus their research around nonlinear, ultrafast and quantum photonics,, fundamentals of light-matter interactions, fibers and guided-wave devices, super-resolution & brain imaging, classical & quantum networks. Previous REU/RET Projects: Generation, Transmission and Manipulation of Optical Skyrmions (2025, REU) Machine Learning Optimization of OAM-mediated Nonlinear Fiber Optics (2024, REU) Sculpting Light in Space […]