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

SMC Director, Inaugural Senior Scholar, Professor and Chair

Dr. Francisco De Caso y Basalo

SMC Manager, Principal Scientist and Managing Director of the Centerfor 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

Miguel Gonzalez

Research Assistant

Roger Solis

Research Assistant

Carlos Perez

Research Assistant

Muhammad Zeeshan

Research Assistant

Enrique Alonso

Student Research Assistant

Cesar Bernal

Student Research Assistant

Mertcan Daysalilar

Student Research Assistant

Kayla Thompson

Student Research Assistant

Alejandra Mendoza-Diaz

Student Research Assistant

Christopher Fischer-Hylton

Student Research Assistant

Joseph Zhang

Student Research Assistant

PhD Students at SML

Mohammad Amin Soltani

PhD Student

Jesus Ortiz Polanco

PhD Student

Camilo Vega Vargas

PhD Student

Zahid Hussain

PhD Student

Hossein Roghani

PhD Student

Ehsan Harati

PhD Student

Nima Khodadadi

PhD Student