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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