Researchers

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The work we conduct at Case School of Engineering’s Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension (SDLE) Research Center wouldn’t be possible without the efforts of our dedicated research team. On this page, you can see which faculty members are involved with our work at Case Western Reserve University. We also encourage you to get to know our post doc and student researchers.

Faculty

Erika Barcelos

Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Develops geospatial predictive models and geospatial data science tools to study climate and environmental related phenomena and their impacts in nature. Develop data management and data integration frameworks for data and metadata to enable FAIRification.

Laura Bruckman

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Develops predictive lifetime models for materials degradation related to stress conditions and induced degradation mechanisms evaluated by quantitative spectroscopic characterization of materials

Roger French

Director SDLE Research Center, CWRU
Faculty Director, Applied Data Science Program, CWRU
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, SDLE Research Center
Applies data science and analytics to energy and materials science research problems

Rosalind Madorsky

Supports the SDLE Research Center by coordinating student researcher personnel, managing the core facility, and performing other financial and administrative tasks

Alp Sehirlioglu

Department Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Develops new materials through exploitation of interfaces to control functionality and exploration of multi-functionality for energy-related applications

Richard Tomazin

Engineer 3,

Provides engineering support for the Materials Science & Engineering Department, Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Reliability Center, AMMRC, and the Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension Center, SDLE.

Pawan Tripathi

Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Develop data analysis techniques, tools, and pipelines for high dimensional datasets in materials science such as synchrotron XRD, XCT, and advanced manufacturing to reveal insights, and correlations and improve predictive modeling leveraging deep learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical methods.

Materials Data Science, Advanced Manufacturing, Synchrotron Data Analysis, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Uncertainty Quantification, Atomistic Simulation

Materials Data Science for Stockpile Stewardship (MDS) Affiliated Faculty

Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) Affiliated Faculty

  • Julie Renner, BS, PhD

    Julie Renner, BS, PhD

    Dean's Fellow, Case School of Engineering; Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case School of Engineering; P. Anne Hiltner, PhD and Debra L. Wilfong, PhD Designated Professor in Engineering , Case School of Engineering

    Email: julie.renner@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2905

  • Chris Yingchun Yuan, PhD

    Chris Yingchun Yuan, PhD

    Leonard Case Jr. Professor , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Leonard Case Jr. Professor , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: chris.yuan@case.edu

  • Huichun (Judy) Zhang, PhD

    Huichun (Judy) Zhang, PhD

    Frank H. Neff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: huichun.zhang@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0689

Center on Materials Data Science for Reliability and Degradation (MDS-Rely) Affiliated Faculty

  • Janet Gbur

    Janet Gbur

    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: janet.gbur@case.edu