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Prof. Ashley Bucsek

Ashley Bucsek is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan with a courtesy appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. Previously, she was a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota, a visiting scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Colorado School of Mines, and an NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellow at the University of Wyoming. She is the President-Elect of the ASM International Organization for Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, an Editorial Advisory Board member of the journal Shape Memory and Superelasticity, an APS Imaging/Microbeam Proposal Review Panel member, an APS Users’ Organization Steering Committee member, a CHESS User Executive Committee member, and the Community Development Officer for the IUCr Commission on Diffraction Microstructure Imaging. She is a 2022 NSF CAREER award recipient.

Reza Roumina

Visiting Research Professor

High-energy diffraction microscopy; structural alloys; lightweight alloys; magnesium alloys; processing; recrystallization

Sangwon Lee

ME PhD Candidate

Dark-field X-ray microscopy; high-energy diffraction microscopy; structural alloys; lightweight alloys; magnesium alloys; processing; recrystallization; grain growth; powder diffraction; X-ray tomography

Wenxi Li

ME/MSE PhD Candidate

Point-focused high-energy diffraction microscopy; titanium alloys; shape memory alloys; phase transformations; twinning; plasticity; mechanical behavior; transparent alumina ceramics; grain growth

Yuefeng Jin

ME PhD Candidate

High-energy diffraction microscopy; titanium alloys; mechanical behavior; creep; dwell fatigue; shape memory alloys; phase transformations; X-ray topotomography

Celeste Edith Perez

MSE PhD Pre-Candidate

Phase transformations; shape memory alloys; dark-field X-ray microscopy; mechanical behavior

Saagnik Dasgupta

ME Undergraduate Researcher

Janice Moya

ME Master's Student

Diffraction contrast tomography; X-ray topotomography; mechanical behavior; shape memory alloys; martensitic phase transformations; twinning

Alumni

Larson Lovdal

ME Master's Student

Energy conversion; ferroelectrics; phase transformations; NSF Graduate Fellow

Yaozhong Zhang

ME Master's Student

Phase transformations; shape memory alloys; mechanical behavior; digital image correlation; electron backscatter diffraction

Matthew Weerakoon

ME Undergraduate Researcher

Phase transformations; shape memory alloys; mechanical behavior; digital image correlation

Myles McKenna

ME Master's Student

High-energy diffraction microscopy; shape memory alloys; nickel-titanium; mechanical behavior; functional fatigue