Group Members:
Principal Investigator: Sinan Keten, Ph.D., CV, Email: s-keten@northwestern.edu
June and Donald Brewer Professor
Associate Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy)
Northwestern University Tech A133, 2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109, Tel: (847) 491-5282
Doctoral Students:
Suwei Liu – Mechanical Engineering, (co-advised with Rich Lueptow)
Molecular design of nanofiltration membranes
Xinyan Yang – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mechanics of networks and multistable architected materials
Heather White – Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of graphitic polymer nanocomposites
Subhadeep Pal – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nanomechanics of soft materials, catch bonds
Jacob Graham – Mechanical Engineering
Nanomechanics of biomolecular materials
Akash Pandey – Mechanical Engineering (co-advised with Prof. Wei Chen)
Machine learning for sequence – property relationships in protein-based materials
Arman Moussavi – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Molecular topology effects on polymeric and biomolecular materials
Group Photo (Spring 2023)
Keten Group Alumni (PhD)
Luis Ruiz (2010-2015 | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), now Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Miami)
Brendan Abberton (2011-2015 | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, co-advised with Wing Kam Liu), now Senior Engineer at Fusion Engineering LLC)
Wenjie Xia (2011-2016 |Civil and Environmental Engineering), now Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University in Civil & Environmental Engineering
David Hsu (2012-2017, Mechanical Engineering), now Assistant Professor of Physics and Engineering at Wheaton College.
Bobby Sinko (2012-2017, Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, NDSEG Fellow), now Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University.
Zhaoxu Meng (2013-2018 | Civil and Environmental Engineering), now Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University
Xin Qin (2013-2018 | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), now Data Scientist at Conversant
Dan Ma ( 2013-2018 | Mechanical Engineering), now Deep Learning / AI developer at Ping An Insurance
Elizabeth DeBenedictis (2014-2019 | Mechanical Engineering), NDSEG and Ryan Fellow
Nitin Hansoge( 2016-2021 | Mechanical Engineering), now Senior Predictive Engineer at 3M.
Ao Wang (2016 – 2021 | Mechanical Engineering) , now Packagin R&D Engineer at Intel.
Martha Dunbar (2016-2021 | Mechanical Engineering), now Patent Analyst at NXTSense.
Jenny Liu (2016-2021 | Mechanical Engineering), MSTP program at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
Kerim Dansuk (2016-2021 | Mechanical Engineering)
Former Post-doctoral Fellows
Dr. Zhenghao Wu (2021-2023), Ph.D TU-Darmstadt, Lecturer in Chemistry at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Dr. Andrea Giuntoli (2019-2021) – Ph. D. University of Pisa, now Assistant Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Groningen University.
Dr. Yao Zhang (2017-2019), Ph.D. Penn State University, now Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mechanics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Dr. Zhaoxu Meng (2018-2019), Ph.D. Northwestern University, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University
Dr. Ben Marchi (2017-2019), Ph.D. University of Michigan, now Analystat TransUnion)
Dr. Wenjie Xia (2016-2018), Ph.D. Northwestern University, now Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr. Amit Singh (2015-2018), Ph.D. University of Minnesota, now Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay, India
Dr. Marco Alsina (2014-2015, Ph.D. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, co-advised with J.F. Gaillard, now Assistant Professor at Universidad de Talca, Chile
Dr. Chen Shao (2014-2015), Ph.D. University of Michigan –Ann Arbor, now Director of Operations at Trexquant Investment
Dr. Meng Shen (2013-2015) co-advised with R. Lueptow, now Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Chicago
Dr. Elham Hamed (2013-2015), Ph.D. University of Illinois –Urbana Champaign, now Mechanical Design Engineer at Apple
Master’s Degree Alumni
Bug Meehan (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2020, now at Klein Tools)
Tianjiao Li, (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2019, now Ph.D.Student at Cornell University)
Ridvan Kahraman (M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2017, now Master’s student in TU Munich)
Shizhe Feng (M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017, now Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University)
Ari Benjamin (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2016, now Ph.D.student in at Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Yuanqiao Wu (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2015, now Ph.D. Student at Boston University)
Danielle Ma (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2014, graduated with a Ph.D. from our lab)
Wenjie Xia (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013, graduated with a Ph.D. from our lab)
Shawn Mishra (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013, received Ph.D from the City University of New York).
Undergraduate Researchers:
Current:
Jerry Qin (current, Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering)
Alumni:
Vianey Guadian (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Jordan Checkoff (Chemistry and Computer Science)
Elaine Liu (Mechanical Engineering)
Ela Naz Sigin (Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University)
Polen Ton (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Maddie Durmowicz (Mechanical Engineering, NU)
Melanie Galantino (Civil and Environmental Engineering, NU, now PhD student at Princeton)
Eleanor Colligan ( Mechanical Engineering, NU
Daniel Oh (Mechanical Engineering, NU)
Saahir Ganti-Agrawal (Materials Science and Engineering, NU)
Christopher Lee (Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, NU, co-advisor: Lueptow)
Jonathan Meehan (former member, Mechanical Engineering, NU)
Roberto Votta (Mechanical Engineering, NU)
Alp Kismir (Mechanical Engineering, NU)
Susan Molina (Biomedical Engineering, NU)
Suwei Liu (Mechanical Engineering, NU, pursuing PhD. in our lab)
Su Chun Kang (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NU).
Derya Arin (Mechanical Engineering, NU).
Jake Song (Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), NU, now PhD student at MIT in Materials Science and Engineering).
David Bai ( summer REU, Physics & Computer Science, Colorado College)
Jonathan Denose (Mechanical Engineering, NU)
Gary Li (Chemical and Biological Engineering, NU)
Ertugrul Alemdar (Middle Eastern Technical University, REU)
Raul Marrero (NU Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP), now PhD. student at Northwestern University)
Katherine Yun (Mechanical Engineering)
Hannah Kim(Chemistry, Wellesley College, visiting Beckman Scholar)
Shawn Caeiro (Materials Science and Engineering, NU)
Matthew Sullivan (REU student, Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University)
Paige VonAchen (Mechanical Engineering, received MD degree at University of Michigan)
Nick Brandis (Civil and Environmental Engineering, NU)
Max Goldmeier (Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP), Chemistry Northeastern Illinois University, pursued Ph.D at the University of Akron).
Shawn Mishra (Biomedical Engineering, NU)
Eric Schwenker (Materials Science and Engineering, NU, pursuing PhD at Northwestern University).