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May 26, 2025 | General

Toprak completes his Prelim!

By bkim26
Toprak Eraslan, a second-year graduate student, completed his preliminary oral exam on this month. His presentation was on “3D Printable Particle Stabilized Foams for Impact Protection”. With the completion of his exam, he is now officially a PhD candidate!

Congratulations Toprak! 🙂
 

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Current Researchers

Principal Investigator

Orlin D. Velev

Visiting Researchers

 

Graduate Students

Abhirup Basu
Haeleen Hong
Cyrus Cao
Mesbah Ahmad
Pedro Henrique Wink Reis8
Tuyen Truong6
Toprak Eraslan
Byeunggon Kim
Seonghyeon Park
Saba Taheri

Undergraduate Students

Hayden Perry
Dalinska Garcia
Leah Murad

Alumni Researchers

Research Faculty

Bhuvnesh Bharti⇒
Stoyan Smoukov
Bridgette Budhlall

Visiting Researchers

James McAndrew
Vu Duc Huy Nyugen
Stuart Williams
Suk-Tai Chang
Coralie Suscillon ⇒
Yeon Hwang
Hye Young Koo

Postdoctoral Fellows

Seonju Yeo
Wyatt Shields
Dane Grismer
Selver Ahmed
Narendiran Vitchuli
Marius Rutkeviĉius
Hyung-Ju Kim
Anne-Laure Fameau
Yan Zeng
Etienne Palleau
Elena Blanco⇒
Sejong Kim
Olivier Cayre
Rossitza Alargova
Hartmut Wege
Fuduo Ma

Graduate Students

Lucille Verster Ri7
Mike Petrecca6
Sneha Mukherjee2
Nidhi Diwakar
Lilian Okello
Jonathan Falso (MS)
Akhil Shenoy (MS)
Nandita Raajkumar (MS)
Sameera Vellore (MS)
Colin Donaldson (MS)
Jerush Christopher
Rachel Bang
Yosra Kotb
Alekhya Vutukuri (MS)
Tamoghna Saha2
Natasha Castellanos
Austin Williams
Hema Venusha Vadlapudi (MS)
Cathryn Conner
Scott Hollowell (MS)
Aditya Sapre (MS)
Sabina Islam
Harshil Gadhia (MS)
Sanjana Rajanish (MS)
Sangchul Roh
Adam Wallace1
Koohee Han
David Chang
Brittany Mertens
Timothy Shay
Alexander Richter
Daniel Morales2
Stephanie Lam
Tian Tian
Qixin Zhong3 ⇒
Brian Prevo
Ketan Bhatt
Daniel Kuncicky
Shalini Gupta4 ⇒
Suk Tai Chang⇒
Lindsey Jerrim
Amit Goyal5
Kristin Price3
Vinayak Rastogi
Sumit Gangwal
Elizabeth Melvin
Hyung Jun Koo
Jessica Jenkins1
Jairus Kleinert
A. Burak Uçar
Rachita Sharma
Shan Zhu 

Undergraduate Students

Jake Myers
Michael Harding
Connor Lyons
Dylan Gretok
Nick Goodwin
Leah Hanson
Colin Thieken
Seongeun Kim
Eric Buchsbaum
Mia Baliukonis
Amine Yahi
Samantha Walker
Brandon Leib
Sebastian Almanza
Max Destino
Abe Weinstein
Tyler Wroblewski
Davis Brandberg
Sarah Costello
Lauren Kielty
Jerush Christopher
Rachel Sides (REU)
Saurav Jain
Sabrina Pietrosemoli Salazar
Tate Knisely
Matt Slaughter
Nathan Philipovich
Jennifer Fang
Eileen Rui
Jesse Leeder
Claire DeCroix
Natalia Irizarry-Ayala
Oliver Lierz
Paul South
Julia Gietzen
Devin Junkins
David Cho
Amanda Farnsworth
Maya Salem
Christian Lee
Nuran Golbasi
Haobo Sun
Waan Chulakham
Pritash Patel
Colby Andrews
Tyler Sturgill
Andrew Murphy
Ethan Hicks
Tierra Knight
Crista Gregg
Aakash U. Kumar
Divya Rao
Samuel Allred
Ryan Fox
Igor Podolsky
John Lee
Jonathan Peters
Rebecca Klimek
Andrew Thapa
Lauren Lownes
Sara Busaileh
Dayne Plemmons
Ian Rogers
Christine Burdett
Andrew Tibbits
Brandon Moore
Detric Robinson
Jeffrey Millman
Ryan Hill
Joseph Fuller
Devdutta Warhadpande
Julian Willoughby
Sabil Huda
Corey Allen
John Petite
Clifford Tse
Emily Hon
Robert Bradley
J. Taylor Loftis
Esmeralda Luna-Ramos
Jessica Lisane
Garrett Swindlehurst
Corinne Rose
Nargess Golafra
Jeffrey Meyer

1. Coadvised by Michael Flickinger
2. Coadvised by Michael Dickey
3. Coadvised by Chris Daubert, Department of Food Science
4. Coadvised by Peter Kilpatrick
5. Coadvised by Carol Hall
6. Primarily advised by Peter Fedkiw
7. Coadvised by Lokendra Pal
8. Coadvised by Lilian Hsiao

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Dr. Orlin D. Velev, S. Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor

Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7905 USA

Phone: 919-513-4648
Email: odvelev@ncsu.edu

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