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PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
Christian Franck
cfranck@wisc.edu
Bjorn Borgen Professor
H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., M.S., California Institute of Technology
B.S., University of Virginia
Academic Staff
Jing Zhang, Ph.D
Scientist II
​Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut
MS, B.S, Mechanical Engineering Tsinghua University
Postdoctoral Fellows
Enze Chen, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow
​Ph.D., M.S., Civil Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Civil Engineering,
Nanjing Forestry University
Graduate Students
Baris Dedekarginoglu
Ph.D Student
Jamie Sergay
Ph.D Candidate
Emily Blick
Ph.D Candidate
Undergraduate Students
Griffin Radtke
Undergraduate Student
Jesse Park
Undergraduate Student
Natalie Schick
Undergraduate Student
Franck Lab Alumni
Grace Kreissler (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2024)
M.S. student, Duke University
Karina Buttram (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2024)
Alexander McGhee, PhD (Postdoc, 2023)
Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona
Xiangyu (Alex) Sun, PhD (Postdoc, 2022)
Reseach Scientist, Applied Mechanics Modeling, Corning Inc.
Jialiang Tao (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2022)
Luke Summey (Research Engineer, 2022; University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2020)
Bioscience Sales Specialist, Nikon Instruments
Jin Yang, PhD (Postdoc 2022)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin
Echo Zhiqin Xu (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2022)
PhD student, Columbia University
Harry Cramer III (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2022)
Assistant Director for the IDDRC Cellular Imaging Core, Boston Children's Hospital
Nomin Khishigsuren (University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2022)
Selda Buyukozturk (Brown, Ph.D. Material Science, 2021)
MIT Lincoln Labs
Sam Yin (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2021)
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeni Farmerie (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2021)
M.S. student, UC Berkeley
Lauren Hazlett Brunner (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2020) GlaxoSmithKline
Angel Chukwu (University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2020)
Alexander K Landauer (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2019)
Post-Doctoral Fellow at NIST
Mohak Patel (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2019)
Software Engineer at Google
Mark Scimone (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2019)
Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences, Inc.
Aneesh Heintz (Brown, Sc.B. 2018)
Anna Seto (Brown, Sc.B. 2018)
Systems Engineer at Raytheon
Michael Harman (Postdoc 2018)
Ximedica
Daniel Klotz (Brown, Sc.M. Biotechnology, 2018)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Christina Andrews (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2018) Johnson Matthey
Jon Estrada (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2017)
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Paul Hopkins (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2017)
Drug Product Engineer at Amgen
Shababa Binte Matin (Brown, Sc.B Biomedical Engineering, 2017)
Ashok Seetharam (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2016)
Alana Levine (Brown, Sc.M. Biotechnology, 2016)
Lauren Chanen (Brown, Sc.B. Mech. Engineering, 2016)
Jennifer Cardona (Brown, Sc.B. 2015)
PhD student, Stanford
Eyal Bar-Kochba (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2015)
Senior Researcher at APL
Daniel Keenan (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2015)
Engineer at Abiomed
David Stout (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2014)
National Science Foundation
Kyle McNamara (Brown, Sc.B. 2014)
MD/PhD Student VATech - Wake Forest
Jennet Toyjanova (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2014)
Engineer at Ximedica
Justin Morse (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2014)
Engineer at Ximedica
Eugenia Gurvich (Brown, Sc.B. 2013)
Goldman Sachs
Dingyi Sun, Ph.D (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Post-doc, Brown University
Tiffany Lin (Brown, Sc.B., Physics, Wellesley 2012)
Erin Hannen (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech
Mark Guttag (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Ph.D. student, MIT
Anastassia Astafieva (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Continental Tire Corp., Germany
Sangjin Ryu (Postdoc 2011)
Faculty, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln
Katrina Wilson (Brown, Sc.B. 2011)
Hyun-Jung Lee (Brown, Postdoc 2010)
Postdoc, Georgia Tech
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