PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
Christian Franck
Grainger Institute for Engineering Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., M.S., California Institute of Technology
B.S., University of Virginia
Academic Staff
Luke Summey
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Technology
Ferris State University
summey@wisc.edu
Jing Zhang, Ph.D
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut
MS, B.S, Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
jzhang2338@wisc.edu
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jin Yang, Ph.D
Ph.D., M.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
B.En. Mechanics, Tsien Program, Tsinghua University
jyang526@wisc.edu
Alexander McGhee, Ph.D
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering,
University of Florida
B.S. Mechanical Engineering,
University of Florida
amcghee2@wisc.edu
Graduate Students
Jamie Sergay
Biomedical Engineering
Cellular Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
sergay@wisc.edu
Undergraduate Students
Echo Zhiqin Xu
Mechanical Engineering
Experimental Neuromechanics
Traumatic Brain Injury
zxu433@wisc.edu
Sam Yin
Mechanical Engineering
Soft Matter Characterization Analysis
yyin49@wisc.edu
Franck Lab Alumni
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
