Principal Investigator
Arend van der Zande
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
- Ph.D Cornell University, 2011
- Email: arendv@illinois.edu
- Office: 342 Mechanical Engineering Building
Postdoctoral Scholars
Sihan Chen
- Email: schen141 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S Tsinghua University 2013
- M.S UIUC 2015
- Ph.D UIUC 2019
- Nanopore sensing with 2D materials (co-advised by Rashid Bashir)
Graduate Students
Mohammad Abir Hossain
- Email: mah5 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2011
- M.S The University of New Mexico, 2016
- Strain engineering/straintronics in 2D materials and heterostructures
Paolo Ferrari
- Email: paolof2 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S Federal University of Technology – Parana 2017
-
Nanotribology of 2D materials & Moiré heterostructures
Siyuan Huang
- Email: siyuanh (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S University of Science and Technology of China(USTC) 2018
- 2D heterostructure fabrication
Hyunchul Kim
- Email: hk28 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S Yonsei Univ (Korea) 2016
- M.S Yonsei Univ (Korea) 2018
Yue Zhang
- Email: yuez11 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S University of Science and Technology of China(USTC) 2019
Kevin Zhao
- Email: helinlz2@illinois.edu
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- BAS University of British Columbia — Vancouver, 2021
- Applications of 2D materials in stretchable electronics
Kelly (Jiyoung) Hwang
- Email: kellyh4@illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- B.S Sogang University 2021
Undergraduate Students
Luke Kelly
- Email: luketk2@illinois.edu
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Large Area Exfoliation of 2D Materials
Christopher Metellus
- Email: cjm10@illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- Mechanics of thin film
Alumni
Postdoc
Dr. Jangyup Son (2017-2020)
- Current position: Korea Institute of science and technology (KIST)
Ph.D
Dr. Jaehyung Yu (2015-2020)
- Current position: The University of Chicago
Dr. Sunphil Kim (2015-2020) 
- Current position: Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Undergraduate
Yoojin Ahn
- Email: yahn22 (at) illinois.edu
- Material Science and Engineering
- Fabrication of 2D material heterostructures
Thomas Butruille
- Email: thomasb3 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- Fabrication of 2D material heterostructures
Dongyun Aiden Kang 
- Email: dongyun2 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- Growth & Fabrication of 2D materials and heterostructures
Ruby Jingwei Xu 
- Email: jingwei8 (at) illinois.edu
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- 2D Material Vacuum Transfer Station
Apratim Khandelwal
- Email: apratim2 (at) illinois.edu
- Materials Science and Engineering
Idonis Curtis
- Email: curtii15 (at) uwosh.edu
- University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Nikita Buzov
- Email: buzov2 (at) illinois.edu
- Major: Engineering Mechanics
- Optomechanics of 2D membranes
YunJo Jeong
- Email: yjeong12 (at) illinois.edu
- Major: Engineering Mechanics
- Fabricating 2D heterostructures
Henley He
- Email: henleyhe8 (at) gmail.com
- Major: Mechanical Engineering
- Fabricating 2D heterostructures
Joanna Scimeca
- Email: joanna.scimeca (at) gmail.com
- Affiliation: Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda, MD
Daniel Benkeser
- Email: dan.benkeser (at) gmail.com
- Major: Engineering Mechanics
Jai Karnik
- Email: jaikarnik101 (at) gmail.com
- Major: Material Science
- Large scale growth of 2D materials
John Roach
- jroach (at) jsmorton.org
- Morton East High School, Cicero
- Fabricating 2D heterostructures
Fatou Cisse
- Email: fcisse2 (at) illinois.edu
- REU Student
- Major: Chemical Engineering
- MOCVD growth of 2D materials