Mark Aindow [email] - Mark was educated at the University of Liverpool in England, receiving a BEng in Metallurgy and Materials Science in 1985 and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 1988. He spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Case Western Reserve University and then at The Ohio State University. His first faculty appointment was from 1990-1999 in the School of Metallurgy and Materials at The University of Birmingham, England. In 1994 he was a Royal Society/CAS Exchange Scholar at the Beijing Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, PRC.
Mark joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1999. He is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), and also serves as the Executive Director for Innovation, External Engagement and Industry Relations in the Office of the Vice President for Research. He was the Director of the MSE Program from 2006-2009 and Associate Director for the Institute of Materials Science from 2013-2017. He held sabbatical appointments as a Visiting Professor in the MSE Dept. at National Taiwan University, Taipei in 2005, and as a Visiting Fellow in the Dept. of Applied Physics at Yale University in 2012. He served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Materials Science from 2008-2017.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Baris Yavas [email] - Baris earned his BS in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME) from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2011. He spent 6 months as an exchange scholar in the Agency for Science, Technology & Research at the National University of Singapore, before returning to ITU to pursue graduate study. He earned an MS in Materials Engineering in 2014, and a PhD in MME in 2020. Both his MS and PhD projects concerned synthesis of novel ceramics and metal-matrix composites by spark plasma sintering. He joined UConn in August of 2020 to work jointly with the Aindow and Alpay groups on a project exploring the potential of Al-Cu-Fe-based systems as quasicrystal-reinforced aluminum matrix MMCs for use in additive manufacturing.
Sarshad Rommel [email] - Sarshad obtained his B.Tech and MS degrees under the integrated dual-degree program in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. His master’s work involved the fabrication and characterization of glass ceramic phosphors (Ce-YAG) for white light emitting diodes. He joined the group as a PhD student in the fall of 2016 and is currently working on oxidation and corrosion phenomena in powder-processed aluminum alloys reinforced with dispersions of icosahedral quasicrystals.
Graduate Students
Nadib Akram [email] - Nadib earned a BSc in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in February, 2017. His undergraduate research involved the effects of B additions on the wear properties of Mg alloys. He completed received an MS in materials science from Missouri State University in Fall 2020. His master’s thesis involved Raman spectroscopic studies of speciation of uranyl and thorium chlorides under hydrothermal conditions. Nadib joined the group as a PhD student in the spring of 2021.
Qiushi Jin [email] - Qiushi earned a BS in Material Science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her undergraduate work related to weldability of high-energy-input low-carbon micro-alloyed steel for marine engineering. She obtained an MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Northeastern University in 2020. Her graduate work involved the fabrication of high thermal conductivity, low thermal expansivity Cu-graphite composites by ultrasonic powder consolidation. Qiushi joined the group as a PhD student in the spring of 2021.
Mingxuan Li [email] - Mingxuan obtained a BE in Materials Physics in 2015, and a ME in Materials Science and Engineering in 2018, both from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. His master’s work involved investigations of the corrosion behavior of ferritic stainless steels under the conditions that prevail in automotive exhaust systems. He joined the group as a PhD student in the fall of 2018 and is working on dynamic STEM studies of phase transformations, oxidation and corrosion phenomena in engineering alloys.
Kyrus Tsai [email] - Kyrus completed his undergraduate studies at Calvin University in Michigan, where he earned both a BSE with a concentration in Chemical Engineering and a BS in Chemistry in the summer of 2020. His undergraduate research work involved using carbon nanotube fibers as sensors in electrochemical testing. He joined the group as a PhD student in the fall of 2020.
Former Group Members
