MURI Team

Principal Investigators

	David Kisailus, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Dr. Kisailus is the Winston Chung Endowed Professor in Energy Innovation in the Depts. of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Kisailus will perform ultrastructural and mechanical characterization of biological species, and biomimetic synthesis. Research Staff
	Horacio Espinosa, Ph.D., Co-Investigator Dr. Espinosa is the James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship at the Northwestern University. Dr. Espinosa will perform nanomechanical testing and will provide analytical and computational continuum modeling bridging to atomistic modeling. Research Staff
	Joanna McKittrick, Ph.D., Co-Investigator Dr. McKittrick is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. McKittrick will perform ultrastructural and mechanical characterization of biological species as well as biomimetic synthesis using freeze casting and polymer flow methods. Research Staff
	Cheryl Hayashi, Ph.D., Co-Investigator Dr. Hayashi is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Hayashi will carry out comparative evolutionary analyses, provide insights to evolutionary pressures as well as perform ultrastructural analyses on biological specimens. Research Staff
	Marc Meyers, Ph.D., Co-Investigator Dr. Meyers is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Meyers will perform ultrastructural and mechanical characterization of biological as well as biomimetic synthesis Research Staff
	Pablo Zavattieri, Ph.D., Co-Investigator Dr. Zavattieri is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Zavattieri will develop and utilize multiscale modeling, perform mechanical testing, and fabricate biomimetic structures with 3D printing. He will also work out the transfer of materials design concepts from models. Research Staff
	Robert Ritchie, Ph.D., Co-Investigator Dr. Ritchie is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ritchie will perform high-resolution in-situ and ex-situ microscopy, x-ray and spectroscopy analyses as well as fracture mechanical analyses. Research Staff