UM Structures and Materials Lab

Our Team

Meet Our Team

From faculty to staff, to graduate and undergraduate students to high school volunteers, our team is a diverse and multicultural group of investigators that are comminuted to deliver continual improvement in all laboratory and research activities. 

Dr. Antonio Nanni

SML Director, Inaugural Senior Scholar, Professor and Chair

Dr. Francisco De Caso y Basalo

SML Manager, Principal Scientist and Managing Director of the Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure (CICI)

Ana De Diego Castro

Research Associate, Lab Analyst

Eduard Chicota Allende

Business Operations Manager

Juan Manuel Palacios

Research Associate

Rafael Cabrera

Instrument Calibration Engineer

Leonardo Ramos

Research Assistant

Aaron Ramos

Research Assistant

Roger Solis

Research Assistant

Carlos Perez

Research Assistant

Alfonso Perez

Research Assistant

Alex Fernandez

Student Research Assistant

Bahar Arian

Student Research Assistant

Chloe Van Hees

Student Research Assistant

Divyashree Shrestha

Student Research Assistant

Matthew Lopez

Student Research Assistant

Christopher Fischer-Hylton

Student Research Assistant

Peter Kellogg

Student Research Assistant

PhD Students at SML

Mohammad Amin Soltani

PhD Student

Omar Osama

PhD Student

Camilo Vega Vargas

PhD Student

Khashayar Heydarpour

PhD Student

Ehsan Harati

PhD Student

Nima Khodadadi

PhD Student