Meet the team
Principal Investigator
Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu
Professor
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Education
1998 BSE, Mechanical Engineering, Walla Walla University
2001 MS, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
2006 PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
2006, ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Contact
Office: 254 Hill Hall
Email: smathaudhu@mines.edu
smathaudhu@engr.ucr.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Current Graduate Students
Madelyn Madrigal Camacho
PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
Co-Advised by Guillermo Aguilar
Research Focus: Ball-milled composite powders for metal additive manufacturing.
M.S. Materials Science (2017)
Education:
BS, Materials Engineering, Instituto Tencnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR)
MS, Materials Science, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM)
Contact:
mmadr012@ucr.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Steven Herzberg
PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
Co-Advised by Lorenzo Mangolini
Research Focus: Plasma synthesis of nanoparticles and nanoparticle dispersion
Education:
BS, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
Contact:
sher002@ucr.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Joshua Edwards
PhD Student
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Research Focus: Joining and Formability of UHS
Education:
2021, MS, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
2018, BS, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Contact:
jmedwards@mines.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Adam Freund
PhD Student
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Research Focus: Tungsten-Based HEAs
Education:
2020, MS, Physical Chemistry, California State University, Northridge
2017, BS, Biochemistry, California State University, Northridge
Contact:
afreund@mines.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Visiting Researchers
Sina Shahrezaei
Returning group alumnus
2019 PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Riverside
Contact:
sshah024@ucr.edu
Current Undergraduate Students
Interested in undergraduate research with the Mathaudhu Lab? Let us know!
Previous Graduate Researchers and Post-Docs
Erik Sease
PhD Student
Materials Science and Engineering
Research Focus: High strength nano-structured silver alloys
Education:
2015, BS, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Contact:
eseas001@ucr.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Evander Ramos
PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
Research Focus: Evolution of wear and mechanical properties of ultra-fine grained electrically conductive materials
Education:
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Contact:
eramo018@ucr.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Christian Roach
PhD Candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
Research Focus: Deformation behaviour in Nanocrystalline Magnesium alloys
Education:
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
Contact:
croac001@ucr.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Heather Salvador
PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
Research Focus: Concurrent strength and ductility in magnesium
Education:
BS, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
MS, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
Contact:
hsalv001@ucr.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Anqi ‘Angel’ Yu
PhD Candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
Research Focus: Relationship between the microstructures and mechanical properties in novel nanostructured binary alloy systems
Education:
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology
Contact:
ayu030@ucr.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Dr. Yiwei Sun
Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering
Research focus: Metal processing, microstructure evolution and mechanical properties
Current position: Assistant Professor at Southeast University
Contact:
yiweis@ucr.edu
Kendrick Mensink
2019, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Co-Advised by Guillermo Aguilar
Research Focus: Laser-induced material heat accumulation, sintering, refractive index modification, texturing etc.
Current Position: Visiting professor of engineering at Walla Walla University
Contact:
kendrick.mensink@gmail.com
Sina Shahrezaei
2019 PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Focus: Crystalline/amorphous metallic laminates synthesis via roll bonding and accumulative roll bonding; Thermal stability of severe surface deformed metallic materials
Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Contact:
sshah024@ucr.edu
Trevor Clark
2019, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Focus: Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline and amorphous magnetic iron-silicon alloys for insight into nano-defect-magnetic interaction mechanisms.
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratory
Contact:
trevor.clark@email.ucr.edu
Johny Quan
2018, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Research Focus: Thermomechanical processing of ultrahigh strength steel for armor plate applications
Current position: Staff Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center – Corona
Contact:
jquan006@ucr.edu
Martin Manuel
2018, MS, Materials Science Online – Materials at a Nanoscale
Research Focus: Micro Mechanical Tensile Testing of Common Metals
Current Position: Material and Processing Engineer at UTC Aerospace
Contact:
martin.manuel@email.ucr.edu
Aleksey Volodchenkov
2016, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
2016-2017 Visiting Researcher
Current Position: Materials and Process Engineer at SpaceX
Evanildo Vicente
2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
Research Focus: Copper graphite composite
Current Position: Professor of Physics in Brazil
Previous Undergraduate Researchers
Olivia Brandt
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (2019)
Current Position: PhD Student, Trice Group, Materials Engineering, Purdue University
Adam Arnot
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (2016)
Current Position: Honda Racing Co.
Isaac Fonseca
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (2016)
Current Position: California Steel Industries
Xavier Hernandez
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2016)
Current Position: Ceres Automation
Alexander Jaramillo
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2016)
Current Position: Project Control Engineer at Herman Weissker Inc.
Brandon Leu
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (2016)
Current Position: PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering at UCSB with the Beyerlein Group
AliAsghar Shamsuddin
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (2016)
Current Position: Metallurgist at Arconic
Jocelyn Esparza
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2017)
Current Position: Nanovea
Lauren Ficarelli
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering (2017)
Current Position: Failure Analysis Engineer at EAG Laboratories
Raymond Lo
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2017)
Lauren Oh
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2017)
Current Position: Documentation and Quality Engineer at Sorenson Engineering Inc.
Jonathan Siquenza
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2017)
Current Position: After-Sales Engineer at Nanovea
Chris Lee
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2020)
Bradley Erwin
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Yosuke Inagaki
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Richard Yeong
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Brandon Moffet
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Sarah Benny
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering