Flexible Research Group
This page links to the websites of friends, collaborators, and other scholars that are doing research of immediate interest to our group. Their websites are organized according to the following three communities: Architected Materials, Precision Flexures, and Compliant Mechanisms.
Architected Materials
Christopher M. Spadaccini, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Prof. Hopkins' Postdoc Mentor)
Julia R. Greer, California Institute of Technology
Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University
Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich
Massimo Ruzzene, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lorenzo Valdevit, University of California, Irvine
Ashkan Vaziri, Northeastern University
Tarek I. Zohdi, University of California, Berkeley
Frank Zok, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nicholas X. Fang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carolyn C. Seepersad, The University of Texas at Austin
Damiano Pasini, McGill University
Amir Zadpoor, Delft University of Technology
Sergio Pellegrino, California Institute of Technology
Daniel Tortorelli, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University
Sung Hoon Kang, Johns Hopkins University
Dennis Kochmann, California Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich
Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University
Iwona Jasiuk, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Fabio Semperlotti, Purdue University
Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology
Kevin Hemker, Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University
Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Guoliang Huang, University of Missouri
Nicholas Boechler, University of California, San Diego
Xiaoyu "Rayne" Zheng, Virginia Tech
Bill P. King, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Hayden Wadley, University of Virginia
Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Chicago
Lorna Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stavros Gaitanaros, Johns Hopkins University
Kaliat T (KT) Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University
Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nanshu Lu, The University of Texas at Austin
Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University
Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew R. Begley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge
Richard Leach, The University of Nottingham
Andres Arrieta, Purdue University
Nikolaus Correll, University of Colorado at Boulder
Glaucio H. Paulino, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aaron M. Dollar, Yale University
Jerry Qi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Costas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley
Ryan Hurley, Johns Hopkins University
Kathryn Matlack, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Sameh Tawfick, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Min Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hamid Garmestani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jung-Hoon Chun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Fourkas, University of Maryland
Martin Van Hecke, Leiden Institute of Physics
Mazdak Tootkaboni, UMass Dartmouth
Shuman Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hayden Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Julien Meaud, Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher Rycroft, Harvard University
Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Georgia Institute of Technology
Martin Wegner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mitra Taheri, Drexel University
Jordan R. Raney, Pennsylvania State University
Qiming Wang, University of Southern California
Yong Chen, University of Southern California
Vitali Nesterenko, University of California, San Diego
Michael Frazier, University of California, San Diego
Shengqiang Cai, University of California, San Diego
Pu Zhang, State University of New York - Binghamton
Grace Gu, University of California, Berkeley
Ramathasan Thevamaran, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Precision Flexures
Martin L. Culpepper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof. Hopkins' Ph.D. Advisor)
Shorya Awtar, University of Michigan
Mark L. Schattenburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert M. Panas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Stuart Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dannis Brouwer, University of Twente
David Trumper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alex Slocum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan van Eijk, High Tech Institute
Christopher J. Evans, University of North Carolina ant Charlotte
Herman Soemers, High Tech Institute
Vivek Badami, Zygo Corporation
Ian Hunter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John C. Ziegert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Michael Cullinan, The University of Texas at Austin
Paul Shore, University of Cambridge
Chinedum Okwudire, University of Michigan
Shih-chi Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Compliant Mechanisms
Larry Howell, Brigham Young University
Ashok Midha, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Just Herder, Delft University of Technology
Sridhar Kota, University of Michigan
Mary Frecker, Pennsylvania State University
Craig Lusk, University of South Florida
Charles J. Kim, Bucknell University
Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University
Brian D. Jensen, Brigham Young University
Haijun Su, Ohio State University
Jingjun Yu, Beihang University
Placid Ferreira, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Shikui Chen, Stony Brook University
Guangbo Hao, University College Cork
Guimin Chen, Xidian University
Nima Tolou, Delft University of Technology
Girish Krishnan, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Brian Trease, University of Toledo
J. Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine
Clement Gosselin, Laval University
Anupam Saxena, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dennis Hong, University of California, Los Angeles
Jamie Paik, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Daniel J. Inman, University of Michigan
David Capelleri, Purdue University
Amos Winter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Connor Walsh, Harvard University
Anirban Mazumdar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert J. Wood, Harvard University
Jian S. Dai, King's College London
S.K. Gupta, University of Southern California
Jared Butler, Penn State University