Personnel

We are always looking for motivated and qualified PhD students and Post-doctoral Associates to join our group!  Interested person should e-mail Chris Hogan directly and attach an up-to-date copy of their C.V.  In addition, as the former (2015-2020) director of graduate studies for the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, Chris is also constantly looking for qualified PhD and MSME students to join the mechanical engineering department at Minnesota, where there are more than 40 graduate faculty members and a number of world leading research groups.  Interested prospective students are strongly encouraged to look over the department webpage.

CHRIS HOGAN

  • Professor
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Aerosol Science
  • Email: hogan108.at.umn.edu
  • Post-doc, 2008-2009,  Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
  • Ph.D. 2008, Energy, Environ. & Chem. Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
  • B.S. 2004, Biol. & Environ. Engineering, Cornell University
  • Webpage.  Google Scholar.  Researchgate

BERNARD OLSON

  • Senior Research Associate
  • Director of the Particle Calibration Laboratory
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: olso0209.at.umn.edu
  • Ph.D. 2000, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • M.S. 1992, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • B.S.1986, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • Particle Calibration Laboratory

Shyam Kumar M.

  • Post-doctoral Associate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: smutilho.at.umn.edu
  • PhD, 2021, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India
  • Co-advised by Professor Jiarong Hong

Li Li

  • Post-doctoral Associate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: LI002686.at.umn.edu
  • PhD, 2021, Mechanical Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

HUI Ouyang

  • Post-doctoral Associate/Visiting Scholar
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: ouyan046.at.umn.edu
  • PhD, 2015, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Tomoya Tamadate

  • Post-doctoral Associate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: Tamad005.at.umn.edu
  • PhD, 2021, Chemical Engineering Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

austin Andrews

  • Ph.D. Candidate 
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: andre889.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2019 Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

NYSSA CAPMAN

  • Ph.D. Candidate 
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: capma002.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2018 Physics & Math, Augsburg College
  • Co-advised by Professor Steve Koester

Stephanie Eilts

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: eilts012.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2019, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois

joe Kangas

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: kanga134.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2018, Biomedical Engineering & Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  • Co-advised by Professor John Bischof

Abhilash Ojha

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: ojha0013.at.umn.edu
  • M.S. 2020, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur
  • B.Tech. 2015, Mechanical Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India

Chris Smith

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: smit7114.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2015, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

GUANYU SONG

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: song0312.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2018, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle

Yue Zhao

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Email: zhao1661.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2021, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
  • Co-advised by Professor Uwe Kortshagen

Neha Ganesh Khasnis

  • MSME Student
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • E-mail: khasn005.at.umn.edu
  • B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune India

Devin MCGEE

  • MSME Student
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • E-mail: mcgee221.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2020, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota