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 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, and before applying, please read over the application FAQ file.

CHRIS HOGAN

  • Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
  • 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

XIAOSHUANG CHEN

  • Post-doctoral Associate (2020-Present)
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: chen4014.at.umn.edu
  • Ph.D. 2019, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • B.S. 2014, Energy, Power System and Automation, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

YEONSHIL (YENSIL) PARK

  • Post-doctoral Associate (2019-Present)
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • E-mail: park2359.at.umn.edu
  • Ph.D. 2019, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  • M.S. 2013, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
  • B.S. 2011,
    Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

IAN Marabella

  • Research Engineer
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: marab005.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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

JIHYEON LEE

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: lee01151.at.umn.edu
  • M.S. 2016, Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea
  • B.S. 2014, Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

TOSHISATO ONO

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: onoxx012.at.umn.edu
  • M.S. 2014, Energy Sci. & Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • B.S. 2012, Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Co-advised by Professor Uwe Kortshagen

YUECHEN QIAO

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: qiaox100.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
  • B.S. 2015, Physics, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA

Chris Smith

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

GUANYU SONG

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

HUAN YANG

  • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: yang4847.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2015, Energy and Power Systems, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
  • Google Scholar

Stephanie Eilts

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

Ewnet Gebrehiwot

  • MSME Student
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • E-mail: gebre060.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2008, Civil Engineering, City College of New York

Michelle Heilig

  • BS-MS Student
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • E-mail: heili067.at.umn.edu
  • B.S. 2020 (anticipated, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota