Category: News

Many members of the MONSTER Research Group embarked on their annual trip to TMS 2026 in San Diego, CA, where they presented their research to an international audience. It may have been his first time attending, but Partha stepped up big time to help out Begley (who was unable to attend because of new job […]

Yonguk Lee published “Heteroepitaxial recrystallization under steep strain and temperature gradients” in Superalloy 718 and Derivatives. This paper addresses the HeRX behavior at varying processing conditions, discussing HeRX’s potential role for the abnormally large grain formation at strain limited condition, and competition between HeRX nucleation and annealing twin nucleation at primary γ’ particles at varying […]

Avid Game of Thrones enjoyers may know the quote: “…light as a feather, quick as a snake…” But in this group, we make feathers out of steel! Thank you, Leslie Tharp at Fever Metal Art Center here in Gainesville, FL for hosting our second annual group blacksmithing adventure. Looking forward to next time!

Yonguk Lee published “Unraveling the impact of pressure and hold time in post-process heat treatments on microstructure and microhardness evolution in laser powder bed fusion Alloy 718” in Progress in Additive Manufacturing. This collaborative work with the Illinois Institute of Technology reports the accelerated recrystallization of LPBF Alloy 718 during the HIP process, suggesting that […]

Dr. Benjamin Begley becomes the fourth student to graduate with a PhD from the MONSTER Research Group, defending his dissertation entitled “An Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Approach to Predicting Local Texture Evolution in Two-Phase Titanium Alloys.” Congrats Begley!

June Mizak passed her qualifying exam, with her proposal entitled “On the Mechanism of Liquid Metal-Induced Recrystallization of Zinc by Liquid Gallium.” Congrats June!

The MONSTER group headed to Las Vegas, NV for TMS 2025, where there was so much to see and do! Every group member gave at least one oral talk, and we also attended workshops and networking events while checking out touristy Vegas sites such as the Sphere, the Bellagio Fountain, and Meow Wolf. The MONSTER group had […]

What happens when you let metallurgists out of the lab? They don’t touch grass, they instead find their way back to metal, of course! After taking a few blacksmithing classes herself, Tori organized a MONSTER group blacksmithing adventure for her grad students with the help of Leslie Tharp at Fever Metal Art Center here in […]

Megan Hurley has published her first paper entitled “Microstructural Evolution of Steel during Magnetic Field Assisted Processing” in a JOM special issue for diffusionless phase transformations in engineering alloys. This paper discusses how applying varied magnetic field strengths during thermal processing impacts the formation and growth of austenite, martensite, and pearlite microstructures in a near-eutectoid […]

The MONSTER Research Group is thrilled to announce that Dr. Tori Miller has been awarded the Vladimir A. Grodsky Professorship in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at UF! This prestigious recognition honors Dr. Miller’s sustained performance and excellence in research, teaching, and service in materials science & engineering with a specialization in metals. Congratulations, Dr. […]