Our Team
People
Undergraduate researchers, graduate alumni, and the principal investigator of the Computational Materials Science Group.
Principal Investigator
Ioannis Mastorakos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
MAE Program Lead
B.Sc. Physics (1994) and Ph.D. Engineering (2004), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Research Associate, Visiting Assistant Professor, and Clinical Assistant Professor at Washington State University (2004 to 2014). At Clarkson since 2014.
imastora@clarkson.edu · 315-268-7731 · 251 CAMP
Current Members
Undergraduate researchers
Brady Sammons
Undergraduate Researcher
Grant Chen
Undergraduate Researcher
Carter Lancto
Undergraduate Researcher
Dan Cahill
Undergraduate Researcher
Alumni
Former group members
Olujide Oyerinde
Ph.D., 2025: Investigating Mechanical Properties and Microstructural Phenomena of the AlCoCrFeNi Family of High-Entropy Alloys
Justin Almeida
M.S., 2022: Compositional Prediction of Polycrystalline High Entropy Alloy Mechanical Properties Using a Continuum Dislocation Dynamics Framework
Hang Ke
Ph.D., 2020: Atomistically Informed Multiscale Modeling of Metallic Nanofoam
Navid Kermanshahimonfared
Ph.D., 2019: Computational Study of High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) Plastic Behavior and Dislocation Patterns
B. Kowalczyk
M.Eng., 2016: The Effect of Size and Composition on Strength of Cu/Alloy/Ni Trimetallic Nanoscale Metallic Materials (NMM) Composites. Co-advised with A. Achuthan.
Undergraduate alumni: Andres G. Jimenez (NSF REU; 2nd place, undergraduate poster competition, MRS Fall 2017; NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2020), Sean Willis, Megan Michaud, Daniel Lacey, Andrew Lally, C. Rust (Honors thesis), D. Silva (Honors thesis, NSF REU), B. Mazza (Honors thesis), S. McKinley (Honors thesis), N. Okoro
Undergraduate researchers at Washington State University (2008–2011): N. Le, M. Zeine, T. Claus, B. O’Meara, O. Nieto, Y. Mathews, J. Parsons, F. Mased, M. Faisal
Join the Group
Openings
The group is not recruiting new graduate students at this time. Prospective students and collaborators interested in molecular dynamics, dislocation dynamics, crystal plasticity, or scientific machine learning are welcome to get in touch about future opportunities.