I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Delaware, and I am interested in contributing to research work in the field of Materials Science/Chemical Engineering.
My research is primarily in designing the structure of materials at the nano-to-mesoscale, and understanding how their structure-property relationships can be controlled. I have devised novel theoretical and computational approaches that model the structure of these materials, their synthesis and evaluate their properties. My doctoral research primarily focused on the nanoengineering of low-dimensional crystalline materials like graphene and nanotubes to study their growth and their nanomechanics. In connection to mechanical properties, I was particularly focused to exploit the structure-property relationships that lead to high specific strength and was one of the pioneers who explored their fatigue behavior. On advancing to my postdoctoral career, I entered the domain of soft and polymeric materials where structural variations occur primarily at the mesoscale. In this role I have been working on novel approaches where I develop computational methods that can connect experimental data directly to their three-dimensional structure, by employing their scattering profiles and further explore their structure-property relationships to then explain other properties like ion transport or optical response.
My research is primarily in designing the structure of materials at the nano-to-mesoscale, and understanding how their structure-property relationships can be controlled. I have devised novel theoretical and computational approaches that model the structure of these materials, their synthesis and evaluate their properties. My doctoral research primarily focused on the nanoengineering of low-dimensional crystalline materials like graphene and nanotubes to study their growth and their nanomechanics. In connection to mechanical properties, I was particularly focused to exploit the structure-property relationships that lead to high specific strength and was one of the pioneers who explored their fatigue behavior. On advancing to my postdoctoral career, I entered the domain of soft and polymeric materials where structural variations occur primarily at the mesoscale. In this role I have been working on novel approaches where I develop computational methods that can connect experimental data directly to their three-dimensional structure, by employing their scattering profiles and further explore their structure-property relationships to then explain other properties like ion transport or optical response.