Our Research Team

Lab Founder
Lab Founder

Scott Stapleton, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMass Lowell

Catie Barry
Postdoctoral Researcher

Catherine Barry
Postdoctoral Researcher, UMass Lowell

Catie is working on the multi-scale modelling of knit textiles, specifically looking at how residual stress during the manufacturing process changes the mesostructure and homogenized textile properties.

Undergrad
Graduate Research Assistant

George Barlow
PhD Student, UMass Lowell

George is working with VTMS, a fiber-sccale simulation software managed by AFRL. He is primarily looking at the packing patterns of fiber-reinforced composites and how it effects part properties. Additionally, he is running impact simulations on helmets to improve the protection and lessen the weight of helmets for the men and women who protect our nation.

Jamal Husseini
Graduate Research Assistant

Jamal Husseini
PhD Student, UMass Lowell

Jamal is working on developing functionally graded adhesives for stronger, stable composite joints. He will be transitioning to micromodelling of fiber-reinforced composites and RVE generation.

Ihsan Uluturk
Graduate Research Assistant

Ihsan Uluturk
PhD Student, UMass Lowell

Ihsan is working on all things textile. He is manufacturing and testing a variety of knits to quantify the effect of textile structure on mechanical properties. He is additionally developing actuated textiles made with actuator yarns.

Hengameh Ghaffari
Graduate Research Assistant

Hengameh Ghaffari
PhD Student, UMass Lowell

Hengameh is is working on developing functionally graded adhesives, specifically using finite element models to guide the design of property gradation.

Eric
Graduate Research Assistant

Eric Carey
PhD Student, UMass Lowell

Eric is working on reduced order microscale finite element models of carbon fiber reinforced composites and how to connect these models with machine learning for efficient multi-scale models.

Anthony Mosto
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Anthony Mosto
Undergraduate Research Assistant, UMass Lowell

Anthony is working on developing functionally graded adhesives for stronger, stable composite joints. He has been focusing on the post processing portion of testing, specifically Digital Image Correlation (DIC).

Tony Lopez
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Tony Lopez
Undergraduate Research Assistant, UMass Lowell

As an undergraduate research assistant, Tony is manufacturing testing specimens, running characterization tests, performing DIC, and conducting biaxial tests on textiles.

Caitlyn MacKay
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Caitlyn MacKay
Undergraduate Research Assistant, UMass Lowell

As an undergraduate research assistant, Caitlyn is manufacturing testing specimens, running characterization tests, performing DIC, and conducting biaxial tests on textiles.

Alyssa Baltayan
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Alyssa Baltayan
Undergraduate Research Assistant, UMass Lowell

As an undergraduate research assistant, Ayssa is manufacturing testing specimens, running characterization tests, performing DIC, and conducting tests on textiles and adhesives.

Underunderundergrad
Under-under-undergraduate Research Assistant

Stapleton Clone #1
Under-under-undergraduate Research Assistant

Mr. #1 is currently working on the budding-field of fractions. He has just barely broken the barrier of addition and subtraction, and his fascinating results will soon be published in the International Journal of 4th Grade Homework.

Underunderundergrad
Under-under-undergraduate Research Assistant

Stapleton Clone #2
Under-under-undergraduate Research Assistant

Mr. #2 is studying general Mayhem, and how it can be used to help humanity. He is conducting a myriad of experimental studies to characterize the intensity and duration of mayhem in a domestic setting

Underunderundergrad
Under-under-under-undergraduate Research Assistant

Stapleton Clone #3
Under-under-under-undergraduate Research Assistant

Ms. #3 is utilizing slightly evil tendancies to ride the bounds of traditional science. Her future plans include taking over the world and creating mindless minions

Undergrad
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Alumni, worked at UML as:

PostDoc

Dr. Helga Krieger, Engineer, Voith Paper

PhD Student

Dr. Mathew Schey, AFRL

Dr. Weiqing Xia

Alessandro Cassano

Dr. Sara Najafian, Rivian 

Juan Pablo Viaux, PhD student @ UCSD 

Master's Student

Josh Lee, General Dynamics Mission Systems  

Sam Hurvitz, Northrup Grumman

Dr. Dorit Kaufmann 

Christoph Schwab

Stefan Hesseler, IVU Traffic Technologies

Philipp Lux, Klueber Lubrication

Barbara Fleschutz 

Undergraduate Student

Seiji Yoshihara, PhD student @ CalTech

Emily Philpot, Bemis Associates

Kayla Murphy, BLW Engineers

Ryan Fitzgerald

Daniel Downie

Michael Donovan, General Dynamcis Electric Boat 

Hoang Pham

Diana Gonzalez Guarin, KMC Systems, Inc

Parisa Zandi, MIT Lincoln Lab

Chunlong Huang, AutoGuide Mobile Robots

Thien An Trinh, Apple

Eric Riz, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy 

Chetan Jois, PhD Student @ Purdue