M.S., Summer 2021

Cameron graduated with his M.S. in MSE from the MONSTER group in Summer 2021 after working on the HeRX project.

Project: Hγγ’DRA

Ph.D., Spring 2023

Justin graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS in MSE in 2014. Following a short stint in industry, he returned to NC State for graduate school in 2017 before being extradited to Florida where he is currently in holding. Justin’s academic interests include liquid metal embrittlement, corrosion, dungeoneering, stress corrosion cracking, extractive metallurgy, physical metallurgy, necromancy, chemical metallurgy, applied stencillurgy, and most other words ending in ‘-urgy’. Not a lich.

Project: DEMILICH

Recent Publication: “Liquid-metal-mediated recrystallization of zinc under ambient conditions”

Ph.D., Fall 2023

I’m from Chicago, Illinois where I did my bachelors in mechanical engineering and my masters in materials science and engineering. I’m a nuclear fuels research engineer at the Idaho National Lab and I went back to school for my PhD to work more on future clean energy solutions.

Ph.D., Spring 2024

Ben Anthony graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor’s in Materials Science and Engineering in the fall of 2014. He has now ventured down to the University of Florida to seek a PhD in MSE and occasionally moonlight as a pirate, though not nearly as much as he used to. When not serving as the group’s source of eye-related puns, Ben spends his time working with magnesium alloys while holding an interest in thermomechanical processing and defense applications for materials. Ben was awarded the DoD NDSEG fellowship in 2019.

Project: IFRIT, ARACHNE

Recent Publication: “Deformation twin interactions with grain boundary particles in multi-phase magnesium alloys”

B.S., Spring 2021

Jennifer Amanda Perez is a third year student in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Born in Managua, Nicaragua Jennifer traveled from her small municipal state to the tourist-filled and cultural-rich city of Miami, Florida in 2010. She received her Associates in Art for Chemistry from the Miami-Dade College (MDC) Wolfson Campus in 2018 where she worked as a STEM Tutor, assisted as an undergrad in research at the University of Miami, MDC’s physics and chemistry departments and attended multiple symposiums from 2017 to 2018. Outside of school she enjoys learning American Sign Language (ASL), journaling and binge watching dystopian films.