Current Group Members


Shown are: (l-r) Tetsuya Nakashima, Geoff Brennecka, Judith D. Sorge, Miye Kurata, Ryan Ong
Patrick Mahoney, James Caroll,Prof. David Payne, Alp Sehirlioglu and Brent Clothier.


photograph taken October 29, 2003

Current Group Members
Geoff Brennecka

Ph.D. candidate      BS CerEng UMR (2001) MS CerEng UMR (2002)
Research Focus: High-K Materials in the Ta2O5-TiO2 System
email: brenneck@uiuc.edu      resume (pdf)

James Carroll Ph.D. candidate      BS CerEng at Alfred Univ. (2003)
Research Focus: Lead-free based piezoelectric systems
e-mail: jfcarrol@uiuc.edu      resume (pdf)
Alp Sehirlioglu

Ph.D. candidate      BS Mat&MetEng at METU (1997), MS CerEng at Alfred Univ. (2000)
Research Focus: Structure-Property Relations in PMN-PT single crystals
email: sehirlio@uiuc.edu      resume (pdf)         

Tetsuya Nakashima

Visiting Researcher       MS Appl.Chem. at Univ. Tokyo (1995)
Research Focus : Structure-property relationship of glass materials
email: nakashi@uiuc.edu

Pengdi Han

Staff Scientist      Ph.D.
Research Focus: Crystal Growth and High Pressure Synthesis
email: p-han1@uiuc.edu         

Jessica Koschmeder  

Undergraduate      University of Illinois (B.S. exp. May 2007)
Research Focus: Powder processing for lead-free material systems
email: koschmed@uiuc.edu  

Daniel Shoemaker   Undergraduate      University of Illinois (B.S. exp. May 2006)
Research Focus: Microstructure development in PZT based ceramics
email: dpshoema@uiuc.edu

Degrees Awarded