Team members

Principal Investigator

Robert W. Brightfelt Prof. Jeffrey Shield
Department Chair - Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Office: W339 Nebraska Hall, City Campus (Lincoln)
Phone: (402) 472-2378

Email: jshield@unl.edu
Links: Webpage, CV, Google Scholar

About Prof. Shield:

Professor Shield has more than 140 publications in archival journals and has received numerous teaching awards. Research interests are in the general area of microstructural development in materials during processing, formation of nanostructured materials, and development of nanoscale structures for functional devices. He currently focuses much of his research efforts on developing novel nanomagnetic materials for high-energy permanent magnets. Additional expertise is in the area of materials characterization, notably electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction.

Graduate Students

	Mark Anderson Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Engineering Email: mark.anderson@huskers.unl.edu Links: Researchgate, Linkedin Bio: Characterization of Additively manufactured parts, metallography microstructure, and analysis.
	Suchit Sarin Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Engineering Email: ssarin2@huskers.unl.edu Links: Google Scholar, Linkedin Bio: My research involves understanding the formation of micro/nano-structures on metals due to the ultrafast laser pulses-metal interaction. Currently, my Ph.D. work in particular is related to the single spot ablation of Copper and Aluminum due to femtosecond/picosecond laser pulses.
	Sahar Beigzadeh Ph.D. student in Materials Engineering Email: sbeigzadeh2@huskers.unl.edu Links: Researchgate, Linkedin Bio: Characterization and quantification of additively manufactured parts using different microstructural features and related processing parameters based on image processing techniques.
	Juveriya Parmar Ph.D. student in Materials Engineering Email: jparmar2@huskers.unl.edu Links: Google Scholar, Linkedin Bio: Understanding the physics behind the formation of Femtosecond Laser Surface Processing (FLSP) surfaces, including experimental and numerical aspects.
	Rifat Mahbub Ph.D. student in Materials Engineering Email: rmahbub2@huskers.unl.edu Links: Linkedin Bio: Fourth-year Ph.D. student. Currently working with spin crossover complexes. Aiming to find different properties of spin crossover complex and conducting polymer composite.
	Sunil Dhapola Ph.D. student in Materials Engineering Email: sdhapola2@huskers.unl.edu Links: Linkedin Bio: My research investigates the magnetic behavior of nanoparticles. It will focus on forming nanoalloys through inert gas condensation, characterization of structure using TEM & analysis of magnetic behavior.
	Sudha Krishnan Ph.D. student in Materials Engineering Email: skrishnan8@huskers.unl.edu Links: Linkedin Bio: My research involves lab-scale additive manufacturing of NdFeB-based powders to realize NdFeB permanent magnets, optimization of resulting phases, and investigation of their magnetic properties.
	Daniel Egbebunmi Ph.D. student in Materials Engineering Email: degbebunmi2@huskers.unl.edu Links: Linkedin Bio: Daniel completed his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State Nigeria, with a First Class Honours degree. He is an EducationUSA opportunity funds scholar and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He is a first-year Ph.D. student and just joined the SAMPL group. His research would focus on Lasers Surface Processing.