Principal Investigator


Tim Rupert

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI)

Office: 141 Malone Hall
Phone: 410-516-0150
Email: [email protected]

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011)
M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University (2007)
B.S., Johns Hopkins University (2007)

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Postdoctoral Scholars and Research Scientists


Prince Sharma

Postdoctoral Scholar

Project: Alloy design for fusion energy, Nanostructured alloys

Email: [email protected]

Ph.D., Lehigh University
M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
B.Eng., Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science

Graduate Students


Ian Geiger

Ph.D. Student (UC Irvine – Materials and Manufacturing Technology)

Project: High-throughput analysis of grain boundary transitions

Email: [email protected]

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Esther Hessong

Ph.D. Student (UC Irvine – Materials Science and Engineering)

Project: Tailoring the internal structure of amorphous complexions

Email: [email protected]

M.S., University of California, Irvine
B.S., University of California, Berkeley

Edward Li

Ph.D. Student (UC Irvine – Materials Science and Engineering)

Project: Structure and mechanics of linear complexions

Email: [email protected]

M.S., Pennsylvania State University
B.S., Pennsylvania State University

Yi Liu

Ph.D. Student (UC Irvine – Materials Science and Engineering)

Project: Development of near-ideal strength nanocrystalline alloys

Email: [email protected]

M.S., University of California, San Diego
B.S., University of Jinan

Tianning Shi

Ph.D. Student (Materials Science and Engineering)

Project: Kinetics of grain boundary complexion transitions

Email: [email protected]

B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Junjie (Jay) Wu

Ph.D. Student (Materials Science and Engineering)

Project: Structural short range order in amorphous complexions

Email: [email protected]

M.S., Cornell University
B.S., University of Pittsburgh

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