See the structure.
Shape the process.
Exploring how materials form, how we observe them, and how experiments can learn to control their evolution.
Can we move from observing a microstructure after it forms to steering its formation while it is still evolving?
Four connected lenses.
Each one reveals a different part of the process–structure relationship.
Solidification & crystal growth
How gradients, transport, crystallography and interface stability shape a growing solid.
02 / RESEARCHAdvanced characterization
Following evolving structures across scales through X-ray imaging, diffraction and electron microscopy.
03 / RESEARCHAI for materials
Extracting defensible measurements from complex images and connecting processing to structure.
04 / RESEARCHAutonomous experiments
Closing the loop between sensing, state estimation, physics models and process control.
From observation
to intervention.
Observe an evolving material. Infer its hidden state. Predict where it is going. Adjust the process. Measure what changed.
Learn from first principles.
When does a planar interface become unstable?
A compact derivation of the constitutional supercooling criterion and its assumptions.
8 min readDIFFRACTION / 02Why does a crystal have a reciprocal lattice?
From a periodic density to the discrete spatial frequencies measured by diffraction.
7 min read