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Flexible Research Group

This page links to the websites of friends, collaborators, and other scholars that are doing research of immediate interest to our group. Their websites are organized according to the following three communities: Architected Materials, Precision Flexures, and Compliant Mechanisms.

Design and Fab Microarchitectured Material

Architected Materials

Christopher M. Spadaccini, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Prof. Hopkins' Postdoc Mentor)

Julia R. Greer, California Institute of Technology

Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University

Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich

Massimo Ruzzene, Georgia Institute of Technology

Lorenzo Valdevit, University of California, Irvine

Ashkan Vaziri, Northeastern University

Tarek I. Zohdi, University of California, Berkeley

Frank Zok, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nicholas X. Fang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Carolyn C. Seepersad, The University of Texas at Austin

Bill Carter, HRL Laboratories

Damiano Pasini, McGill University

Amir Zadpoor, Delft University of Technology

Sergio Pellegrino, California Institute of Technology

Daniel Tortorelli, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University

Sung Hoon Kang, Johns Hopkins University

Dennis Kochmann, California Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich

Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University

Iwona Jasiuk, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Fabio Semperlotti, Purdue University

Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology

Kevin Hemker, Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University

Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Guoliang Huang, University of Missouri

Nicholas Boechler, University of California, San Diego

Xiaoyu "Rayne" Zheng, Virginia Tech

Bill P. King, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Hayden Wadley, University of Virginia

Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Chicago

Lorna Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stavros Gaitanaros, Johns Hopkins University

Kaliat T (KT) Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University

Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nanshu Lu, The University of Texas at Austin

Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University

Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Matthew R. Begley, University of California, Santa Barbara

Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge

Richard Leach, The University of Nottingham

Andres Arrieta, Purdue University

Nikolaus Correll, University of Colorado at Boulder

Glaucio H. Paulino, Georgia Institute of Technology

Aaron M. Dollar, Yale University

Jerry Qi, Georgia Institute of Technology

Costas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley

Ryan Hurley, Johns Hopkins University

Kathryn Matlack, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Sameh Tawfick, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Min Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology

Hamid Garmestani, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jung-Hoon Chun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Fourkas, University of Maryland

Martin Van Hecke, Leiden Institute of Physics

Mazdak Tootkaboni, UMass Dartmouth

Shuman Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology

Hayden Taylor, University of California, Berkeley

Julien Meaud, Georgia Institute of Technology

Christopher Rycroft, Harvard University

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Georgia Institute of Technology

Martin Wegner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Howon Lee, Rutgers University

Mitra Taheri, Drexel University

Jordan R. Raney, Pennsylvania State University

Qiming Wang, University of Southern California

Yong Chen, University of Southern California

Vitali Nesterenko, University of California, San Diego

Michael Frazier, University of California, San Diego

Shengqiang Cai, University of California, San Diego

Pu Zhang, State University of New York - Binghamton

Wendy Gu, Stanford University

Grace Gu, University of California, Berkeley

Pai Wang, University of Utah

Ramathasan Thevamaran, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Precision Flexures

Precision Flexures

Martin L. Culpepper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof. Hopkins' Ph.D. Advisor)

Shorya Awtar, University of Michigan

Mark L. Schattenburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert M. Panas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stuart Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dannis Brouwer, University of Twente

David Trumper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alex Slocum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jan van Eijk, High Tech Institute

Christopher J. Evans, University of North Carolina ant Charlotte

Herman Soemers, High Tech Institute

Vivek Badami, Zygo Corporation

Ian Hunter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John C. Ziegert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Michael Cullinan, The University of Texas at Austin

Paul Shore, University of Cambridge

Chinedum Okwudire, University of Michigan

Shih-chi Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Daniel Tat Joo TEO, National University of Singapore

Compliant Mechanism and Flexible Structures

Compliant Mechanisms

Larry Howell, Brigham Young University

Ashok Midha, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Just Herder, Delft University of Technology

Sridhar Kota, University of Michigan

Mary Frecker, Pennsylvania State University

Craig Lusk, University of South Florida

Charles J. Kim, Bucknell University

Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University

Brian D. Jensen, Brigham Young University

Haijun Su, Ohio State University

Jingjun Yu, Beihang University

Placid Ferreira, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Shikui Chen, Stony Brook University

Guangbo Hao, University College Cork

Guimin Chen, Xidian University

Nima Tolou, Delft University of Technology

Girish Krishnan, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Brian Trease, University of Toledo

J. Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine

Clement Gosselin, Laval University

Anupam Saxena, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Dennis Hong, University of California, Los Angeles

Jamie Paik, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Daniel J. Inman, University of Michigan

David Capelleri, Purdue University

Amos Winter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Connor Walsh, Harvard University

Anirban Mazumdar, Georgia Institute of Technology

Robert J. Wood, Harvard University

Jian S. Dai, King's College London

S.K. Gupta, University of Southern California

Jared Butler, Penn State University

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