Current Members

Director

Costas P Grigoropoulos
cgrigoro@berkeley.edu
Diploma National Technical University of Athens
(Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering)
M.Sc. Columbia University
Ph.D Columbia University
Professor
A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Students

Brian Blankenship
brian.blankenship@berkeley.edu
B.S University of California Berkeley (Mechanical Engineering)
Research interests: nano-photonics and atomic layer materials

Rundi Yang
rdyang@berkeley.edu
B.S. Purdue University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Mechanical Engineering)
Research interests: nano-photonics, ultrafast optics and semiconductors

Timon Meier
timon.meier@berkeley.edu
B.S. University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany (Mech. Eng.)
M.S. Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (Mechanical Engineering)
Research interests: Inverse Design of Metamaterials (Design, Simulation, Optimization, Fabrication, Imaging and Experimental Characterization)

Stefanos Mavrikos
stmavrikos@berkeley.edu
Diploma National Technical University of Athens (Mechanical Engineering)
Research Interests: Microscale 3D printing, mechanical testing of microstructures, CAE

Runxuan (Jacky) Li
runxuan.li@berkeley.edu
B.S University of California Berkeley (Mechanical Engineering)
Research Interests: Laser processing and optimization of structures.

Vasileios Korakis
vasileios_korakis@berkeley.edu
Diploma National Technical University of Athens (Mechanical Engineering)
Research Interests: Laser processing, laser ablation, filamentation

Sophia Arvin
sophialarvin@berkeley.edu
B.S University of California Berkeley (Materials Science and Engineering)
Research Interests: In-situ TEM, materials characterization, optical properties of materials

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jingang Li
jingang@berkeley.edu
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China (Applied Physics)
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (Materials Science and Engineering)
Research Interests: Optical nanoimaging and ultrafast spectroscopy