People

Principal Investigator

Christian Franck

Credentials: Bjorn Borgen Professor; H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow

Email: cfranck@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D., M.S., California Institute of Technology B.S., University of Virginia

Academic Staff

Alice Fawzi

Credentials: PANTHER Program Engineering Project Manager

Email: afawzi@wisc.edu

Jing Zhang

Credentials: Scientist II

Email: jzhang2338@wisc.edu

Address:
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

M.S., B.S., Tsinghua University

Postdoctoral Fellows

Enze Chen

Credentials: Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: echen86@wisc.edu

Ph.D., M.S., Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University B.S., Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University

Graduate Students

Elizabeth Bremer-Sai

Position title: Ph.D Candidate

Email: ecbremer@wisc.edu

Mechanical Engineering – Soft Material Mechanics

Jamie Sergay

Position title: Ph.D Candidate

Email: sergay@wisc.edu

Biomedical Engineering – Cellular Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Jessica Park

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: jpark594@wisc.edu

Mechanical Engineering – Experimental Neuromechanics

Sinan Candan

Position title: Ph.D student

Email: scandan@wisc.edu

Biomedical Engineering – Experimental Hydrogel Mechanics

Mauricio Araiza

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: araizacaniza@wisc.edu

Mechanical Engineering – Experimental Neuromechanics

Emily Blick

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: eblick@wisc.edu

Biomedical Engineering – Cellular Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Baris Dedekarginoglu

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: dedekarginog@wisc.edu

Mechanical Engineering – Experimental Neuromechanics

Arvin (Wencong) Chen

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: wchen549@wisc.edu

Biomedical Engineering – in vivo TBI experiments

Boran Celik

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: belik@wisc.edu

Mechanical Engineering – Experimental Neuromechanics

Cody Ottinger

Position title: Ph.D Student

Email: cottinger@wisc.edu

Mechanical Engineering – in vivo TBI experiments

Undergraduate Students

Natalie Schick

Position title: Undergraduate Student

Email: nes96@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Cognitive Neuroscience Cellular Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Jesse Park

Position title: Undergraduate Student

Email: jrpark@crimson.ua.edu

Mechanical Engineering Experimental Neuromechanics

Daniel Silverman

Position title: Undergraduate Student

Email: dhsilverman@wisc.edu

Cellular Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Franck Lab Alumni

-                                        Alex McGhee, PhD (Postdoc, 2023)
Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona
+                                        Griffin Radtke (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2024)
-                                        Xiangyu (Alex) Sun, PhD (Postdoc, 2022)
Reseach Scientist, Applied Mechanics Modeling, Corning Inc.
+                                        Paul Hopkins (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2017) 
Drug Product Engineer at Amgen
-                                        Jialiang Tao (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2022)
+                                        Shababa Binte Matin (Brown, Sc.B Biomedical Engineering, 2017)
-                                        Luke Summey (Research Engineer, 2022; University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2020)
Bioscience Sales Specialist, Nikon Instruments
+                                        Ashok Seetharam (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2016)
-                                        Jin Yang, PhD (Postdoc 2022)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin
+                                        Kyle McNamara (Brown, Sc.B. 2014)
MD/PhD Student VATech - Wake Forest
-                                        Echo Zhiqin Xu (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2022)
PhD student, Columbia University
+                                        Jennet Toyjanova (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2014) 
Engineer at Ximedica
-                                        Harry Cramer III (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2022)
Assistant Director for the IDDRC Cellular Imaging Core, Boston Children's Hospital
+                                        Justin Morse (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2014)   
Engineer at Ximedica
-                                        Nomin Khishigsuren (University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2022)
+                                        Eugenia Gurvich (Brown, Sc.B. 2013)  
Goldman Sachs
-                                        Selda Buyukozturk (Brown, Ph.D. Material Science, 2021)
MIT Lincoln Labs
+                                        Dingyi Sun, Ph.D (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Post-doc, Brown University
-                                        Sam Yin (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2021)
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
+                                        Tiffany Lin (Brown, Sc.B., Physics, Wellesley 2012)
-                                        Jeni Farmerie (University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2021)
M.S. student, UC Berkeley
+                                        Mark Guttag (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Ph.D. student, MIT
-                                        Lauren Hazlett Brunner (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2020)
GlaxoSmithKline
+                                        Anastassia Astafieva (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Continental Tire Corp., Germany
-                                        Angel Chukwu (University of Wisconsin - Madison, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2020)
+                                        Sangjin Ryu (Postdoc 2011)
Faculty, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln
-                                        Alexander K Landauer (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2019)
Post-Doctoral Fellow at NIST
+                                        Katrina Wilson (Brown, Sc.B. 2011)
-                                        Mohak Patel (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2019)
Software Engineer at Google
+                                        Hyun-Jung Lee (Brown, Postdoc 2010)
Postdoc, Georgia Tech
-                                        Mark Scimone (Brown, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2019)
Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences, Inc.
+                                        Tiffany Lin (Brown, Sc.B., Physics, Wellesley 2012)
-                                        Aneesh Heintz (Brown, Sc.B. 2018)
+                                        Mark Guttag (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Ph.D. student, MIT
-                                        Anna Seto (Brown, Sc.B. 2018)
Systems Engineer at Raytheon
+                                        Anastassia Astafieva (Brown, Sc.B. 2012)
Continental Tire Corp., Germany
-                                        Michael Harman (Postdoc 2018)
Ximedica
+                                        Sangjin Ryu (Postdoc 2011)
Faculty, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln
-                                        Daniel Klotz (Brown, Sc.M. Biotechnology, 2018)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
+                                        Katrina Wilson (Brown, Sc.B. 2011)
-                                        Christina Andrews (Brown, Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering, 2018)
Johnson Matthey
+                                        Hyun-Jung Lee (Brown, Postdoc 2010)
Postdoc, Georgia Tech
-                                        Jon Estrada (Brown, Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, 2017)
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan