Group
Present Group Members
 | Samuel Kenny Ph.D. in progress sgkenny@ncsu.edu |
 | Caitlin Seed Ph.D. in Progress cmseed@ncsu.edu |
Group Alumni
 | Mohammed Abdelmaksoud Postdoctoral Researcher (2002 – 2003) Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2001) “Nanotribology of a Vapor Phase Lubricant: A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Tricresylphosphate (TCP) Uptake on Iron and Chrome“ First appointment after graduation: Instructor of physics, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt C.V. mnda68@yahoo.com |
 | Biplav Acharya Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2019) “Multiscale Friction and Lubrication Studies of Water and Oil based Lubricants in the Presence and Absence of Nanoparticles“ First appointment after graduation: Intel, Inc. Portland, OR bachary@ncsu.edu |
 | Keshav Avva Undergraduate Researcher ksavva@ncsu.edu Resume (PDF) |
 | Ramatoulie Bah Undergraduate Researcher (2002) First appointment after graduation: M.S. in progress, Norfolk State University (2005) toulie_99@yahoo.com |
 | Colin Baker Postdoctoral Researcher (2005 – 2009) Present Position: Staff Scientist at Naval Research Laboratory colin.baker@nrl.navy.mil |
 | Jonathan W. Bender Postdoctoral Researcher (2001 – 2002) First appointment after post-doctoral fellowship: Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina Present Position: Staff Scientist, Afton Corporation, Richmond, VA C.V. benderjw@engr.sc.edu |
 | Diana Berman Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2012) “Physics of Electrical Current Flow through an Asperity in the Presence and Absence of an Adsorbed Layer“ First appointment after graduation: Postdoctoral researcher, Argonne National Lab. Present Position: Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, TX dyanchu@ncsu.edu |
 | Ephraim Bililign Undergraduate Researcher bililignes@gmail.com |
 | Brian Borovsky Postdoctoral Researcher (1998 – 2001) First appointment after post-doctoral fellowship: Asst. Professor, Physics, Grinnell College Present Position: Asst. Professor, Physics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN |
 | Troy Bradshaw Undergraduate Researcher Present Position: Physics Coder at WebAssign |
 | Andrew Brown Undergraduate Researcher Present Position: Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, Phoenix adbrown@ncsu.edu |
 | Chris Brown Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2008) “Physics of RF MEMS Switch Contacts“ First appointment after graduation: Harvard Business School, MBA Program, Cambridge, MA Present Position: Senior Associate, Sail Venture Partners, Irvine, CA Webpage: http://www.sailvc.com/team/christopher-j-brown-phd dr.chrisjbrown@gmail.com |
 | Joe L. Browning Undergraduate Researcher |
 | Ronald P. Chiarello Ph.D., Northeastern University (1990) “Roughness Characterization of Gold and Silver Surfaces and the Wetting behavior of Physisorbed Films Studied by a Combined Quartz Crystal Microbalance and X-Ray Reflectivity Technique“ First appointment after graduation: Argonne National labs, then Stanford University Present Position: President, C.E.O, founding member and Member of the Board of Directors, Jetalon Solutions, Inc., Pleasant Hill, CA Webpage: www.jetalon.com/rchiarello.html ronc@jetalon.com |
 | Mak Chihong Ph.D., Northeastern University (1996) “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of the Dependance of Atomic Scale Friction on Velocity, Chemical properties and Interfacial Topology“ First appointment after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of New Hampshire Present Position: Staff Scientist, Linear Manufacturing, LTD., Hong Kong makchong@yahoo.com |
 | Richard Chromik Post Doctoral Researcher (2005 – 2007) Present Position: Professor and Dept. Chair, McGill University C.V. richard.chromik@mcgill.ca |
 | Tonya Coffey Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2004) “Nanotribology Fundamentals: Predicting the Viscous Coefficient of Friction“ First appointment after graduation and Present Position: Professor, Dept. of Physics, Appalachian State University Webpage: http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/physics/coffey/index.html coffeyts@appstate.edu |
 | Steven Corley Undergraduate Researcher(2012 – 2015) sdcorley@ncsu.edu |
 | Colin Curtis Graduate research assistant ckcurtis@ncsu.edu |
 | Christopher Daly Ph.D., Northeastern University (1996) “Phonon Energy Dissipation in the Nanotribology of Rare Gas Films“ First appointment after graduation: National Research Council Fellow, US Naval Research Lab., Washington DC Present Position: Senior Solutions Engineer, Share Point, Hewlett Packard, Boston, MA |
 | Ben Dawson Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2010) “Tribo-induced temperature rise and melting at a single asperity sliding contact“ First appointment after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA Present Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of South Florida Physics Department, Orlando, FL C.V. ben.dawson@wsu.edu |
 | Angela J. Dayo Ph.D., Northeastern University (1998) “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Measurements of Electronic Contributions to Sliding Friction“ First appointment after graduation: Freelance computer programmer Present Position: Freelance writer joydayo@yahoo.com |
 | Zachary Fredricks Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2006) “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of Magnetic Mechanisms of Atomic-scale Friction.“ First appointment after graduation: Freelance computer programmer Present Position: CEO of Craftworld Designs, LLC zfredri@ncsu.edu CraftworldDesigns.com |
 | Laura Goodman Undergraduate Researcher lhgoodma@ncsu.edu |
 | Matthew Highland Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2006) “Superconductivity Dependent Friction“ First appointment after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, University Urbana-Champaign, IL, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Present Position: Staff Scientist, Argonne National Laboratories C.V. |
 | Adam Hook Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2011) “The Physics of Vapor Phase Lubricaton of MEMS“ First appointment after graduation: Instructor and Postdoctoral Researcher, North Carolina State Unversity Physics Department C.V. dahook@unity.ncsu.edu |
 | Allyson Hutchinson Undergraduate Researcher (2002, 2004) Present Position: Undergraduate Student, North Carolina State University |
 | Cherno Jaye Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2006) “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of Atomic Scale Friction of Krypton on Graphene“ First appointment after graduation: NIST Postdoctoral Researcher, Brookhaven National Lab., Brookhaven, NY Present Position: NIST Associate Ceramics Synchrotron Methods Group C.V. Webpage: http://www.nist.gov/mml/ceramics/synchrotron_methods/cherno-jaye.cfm cjaye@bnl.gov |
 | Hari Kancharlapalli Webmaster (2012) Present Position: Software Engineer at Riverbed Technology hpkancha@ncsu.edu |
 | Ben Keller Undergraduate Researcher(2011-2014) bwkeller@ncsu.edu |
 | Afsaneh Ketabi M.S., North Carolina State University (2009) aketabi@unity.ncsu.edu |
 | Kurt Ketola Postdoctoral Researcher (1998) Present Position: Principal Multi-Disciplinary Engineer, Raytheon Electronics |
 | Andrew Larson Undergrad Researcher (2008 – 2009) First position after graduation: Tube Lab Technician, Troxler Electronic Laboratories Present Position: Laboratory Supervisor, Troxler Electronic Laboratories andrew_larson@hotmail.com |
 | Anne Lazarides Adjunct Professor anne.lazarides@gmail.com |
 | Sang Min Lee Post Doctoral Researcher (2004 – 2005) Present Position: Applied Materials, Inc, San Jose, CA C.V. |
 | Dustin Leininger Undergraduate Researcher daleinin@ncsu.edu |
 | Zijian Liu Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2016) “ Atomic scale friction and lubrication of carbon based materials in aqueous environments“ zliu13@ncsu.edu |
 | Iyam Lynch Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2011) “Friction and Sliding of Polystyrene Micro Particles in the Presence and Absence of Capillary Adhesion“ Present Position: Principal physicist, Corinthian Opthalmic, Boone, NC iilynch@ncsu.edu |
 | Brian Mason Postdoctoral Researcher (1998 – 2000) Present Position: Design Engineer, Stanford Research Systems bmason@thinksrs.com |
 | Alex Mayer Undergraduate Researcher (1999 – 2001) First Position after graduation: Graduate Student, Applied Physics, Cornell University acm35@cornell.edu |
 | Brian MaCann Undergraduate Researcher (2013 – 2015) bjmccann@ncsu.edu |
 | Klaus Mecke Postdoctoral Researcher (1994 – 1995) Present Position: University of Wuppertal, Germany |
 | Brendan Miller Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2009) “Diffusion of Physisorbed Layers and their Connection to MEMS Effectiveness“ First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Present Position: Technical Staff Tribologist, Chevron Corporation, San Fransisco, CA bpmiller@unity.ncsu.edu |
 | Megan Miller Undergraduate Researcher (2000 – 2001) First position after graduation: Graduate Student, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison mamille5@unity.ncsu.edu |
 | Worakarn Neeyakorn Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2006) “Interfacial Slippage and Friction Studies on Material of Interest to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)“ First position after graduation: Faculty member, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand Present Position: Lecturer and head of the physics department at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand C.V. |
 | George Palasantzas Ph.D., Northeastern University (1994) “X-Ray reflectivity and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Kinetic Roughening of Silver Films“ First Position after graduation: Postdoctoral research scientist, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Present Position: Associate Professor at Univ. Of Groningen Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Groningen, The Netherlands Webpage: http://www.rug.nl/staff/g.palasantzas/index |
 | Liming Pan Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2011) “Tribo-induced Melting/Softening Transitions at Sliding Tungsten/Gold-Nickel Asperity Contacts“ First position after graduation: Financial Data analyst, PNC Bank, Raleigh, NC Present Position: Second Vice President, Credit Policy, Northern Trust Company lpan@ncsu.edu |
 | Vania Panella Ph.D., Northeastern University (1992) “Adsorption Isotherms as Characterization of Self-affine |
 | Tyler Pardue Undergraduate Researcher tnpardue@ncsu.edu Resume (PDF) |
 | Omar Parker Undergraduate Researcher (2004 – 2005) Present Position: Ph.D. in Progress, Medical Physics, East Carolina University |
| Jennifer Patton Undergraduate Researcher (2005) |
 | Jonathan Pike Research Technician and Webmaster japike@ncsu.edu |
 | Daryl Purcell Undergraduate Researcher (2001) First Position after graduation: Graduate Student, Optical Science and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte C.V. darylpurcell@hotmail.com |
 | Michael Rose Undergraduate Researcher (1996 – 1998) First position after graduation: Assistant Staff Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Advanced Imaging Group |
 | Rebecca Rosenfeld Undergraduate Researcher |
 | Chris Shumake Undergraduate Researcher (2004) |
| David Solina M.S Northeastern University (1991) Present Position: RAID Performance Manager, CTG Adaptec Inc. |
 | Keeley Stevens Graduate Research Assistant keeley_stevens@ncsu.edu |
 | Binita Thapa High School Intern (academic year 2017-18) bthapa025@gmail.com |
| Nimel Theodore Postdoctoral Researcher ntheodo@unity.ncsu.edu |
 | Silvina Tomassone Ph.D., Northeastern University (1998) Present Position: Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University Website: http://sol.rutgers.edu/staff/silvina.html silvina@sol.rutgers.edu |
 | Manju R. Varma M.S., North Carolina State University (2003) “Vapor Phase Lubrication of MicroElectro Mechanical Systems“ First position after graduation and Present Position: Circuit Design Engineer, QTC Processor Solutions, Qualcomm C.V. mvarma@qualcomm.com |
 | Brian Vlastakis Undergraduate Researcher First Position after graduation: Physics Ph.D. Candidate at Yale University bmvlasta@ncsu.edu |
 | Lucas Wagner Undergraduate Researcher (1999 – 2001) Present Position: Graduate Student, Computational Physics, North Carolina State University C.V. |
 | Matt Walker Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2009) “Impact of Stringently Controlled Vacuum Environments and in situ Plasma Cleaning on Contact Resistance of Au and Ru Based Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Switches“ First job after graduation and Present Postion: Staff scientist in nanoscale technologies, Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, MD mjwalke2@unity.ncsu.edu |
 | Eric Watts Ph.D., Northeastern University (1989) “Interfacial viscosity at the Boundary of Nitrogen and Krypton with Gold and Silver Surfaces“ First job after graduation: Staff scientist, Rockwell International, Space Shuttle program Present Position: Chief Engineer, GPS IIF Satellites, Boeing Corporation, El Segundo, CA eric.t.watts@boeing.com |
 | Noah Weissman Undergraduate Researcher Present Position: Undergraduate Student, North Carolina State University nlweissm@ncsu.edu |
 | Steve Winder Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2003) “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Measrements of Sliding Friction of Inert Gas Films on Lead, Copper, Nickel, and Graphene Surfaces“ First appointment after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina C.V. Website: http://stevewinder.name smwinder@yahoo.com |
 | Andrew Wright Undergraduate Researcher (2016 – 2017) alwrigh4@ncsu.edu |