Group Members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Udo D. Schwarz
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University
Email: udo.schwarz@yale.edu

Research Staff

Dr. Amit Datye
Associate Research Scientist
Email: amit.datye@yale.edu

Visitors

Bugrahan Guner
Visiting Graduate Student
(Home Institution: École de Technologie Supérieure, University of Quebec, Montréal, Canada)
Email: bugrahan.guner@yale.edu

Graduate Students

	Colton Basar Graduate Student Email: colton.basar@yale.edu
	Yunus Dogan Graduate Student Email: yunus.dogan@yale.edu
	Aurelia Moriyama-Gurish Graduate Student Email: aurelia.moriyama-gurish@yale.edu
	Xinzhe Wang Graduate Student Email: xinzhe.wang@yale.edu
	Shuhan Zhang Graduate Student Email: shuhan.zhang@yale.edu

Undergraduate Research Assistants

	Kidus Abebe Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2026) Email: kidus.abebe@yale.edu
	Sherla Chen Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2026) Email: sherla.chen@yale.edu
	Henry Demarest Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: henry.demarest@yale.edu
	David Gaetano Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2026) Email: david.gaetano@yale.edu
	Maria Korolik Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: maria.korolik@yale.edu
	Rayhan Negedu Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2026) Email: rayhan.negedu@yale.edu
	Freddy Ramon Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2026) Email: freddy.ramon@yale.edu

Undergraduate Senior Design Projects [Fall 2024 - Spring 2025]

NASA 1 - Ultra-Fast Heater (in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center)

	João Pedro Guimarães Maximiano Fernandes Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: joaopedro.fernandes@yale.edu
	Ale Garcia Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: ale.garcia@yale.edu
	Jacob Wang Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: jacob.wang@yale.edu

NASA 2 - Dynamic Impact System (in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center)

	Henry Demarest Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: henry.demarest@yale.edu
	Maria Korolik Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: maria.korolik@yale.edu
	Cecilia Russell Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: cecilia.russell@yale.edu
	Matilda Vary Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: matilda.vary@yale.edu

ASML - Third-Body Wear (in collaboration with ASML)

	Jonah Heiser Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: j.heiser@yale.edu
	Dylan Sevenikar Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: dylan.sevenikar@yale.edu
	Nathan Sih Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: nathan.sih@yale.edu
	Wade Wahlig Undergraduate Research Assistant (Yale College 2025) Email: wade.wahlig@yale.edu