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
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jing Zhang, Ph.D
​Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut
MS, B.S, Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Jin Yang, Ph.D
Ph.D., M.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
B.En. Mechanics, Tsien Program, Tsinghua University
Alexander McGhee, Ph.D
​Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering,
University of Florida
B.S. Mechanical Engineering,
University of Florida
Graduate Students
Jamie Sergay
Biomedical Engineering
Cellular Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Undergraduate Students
Jeni Farmerie
Mechanical Engineering
Experimental Neuromechanics
Traumatic Brain Injury
Echo Zhiqin Xu
Mechanical Engineering
Experimental Neuromechanics
Traumatic Brain Injury
Sam Yin
Mechanical Engineering
Soft Matter Characterization Analysis
Franck Lab Alumni
Lauren Hazlett Brunner (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2020) GlaxoSmithKline
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Angel Chukwu (University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2020)
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Daniel Klotz (Brown, Sc.M. Biotechnology, 2018)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Christina Andrews (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2018)
Johnson Matthey
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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
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Shababa Binte Matin (Brown, Sc.B Biomedical Engineering, 2017)
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Ashok Seetharam (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2016)
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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
Dingyi Sun, Ph.D (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Post-doc, Brown University
Tiffany Lin (Brown, Sc.B., Physics, Wellesley 2012)
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Erin Hannen (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech
Alexander K Landauer (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2019)
Post-Doctoral Fellow at NIST
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Mohak Patel (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2019)
Software Engineer at Google
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Mark Scimone (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2019)
Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences, Inc.
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Aneesh Heintz (Brown, Sc.B. 2018)
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Anna Seto (Brown, Sc.B. 2018)
Systems Engineer at Raytheon
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Michael Harman (Postdoc 2018)
Ximedica
Alana Levine (Brown, Sc.M. Biotechnology, 2016)
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Lauren Chanen (Brown, Sc.B. Mech. Engineering, 2016)
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Jennifer Cardona (Brown, Sc.B. 2015)
PhD student, Stanford
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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
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)
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Hyun-Jung Lee (Brown, Postdoc 2010)
Postdoc, Georgia Tech
