Marisol Koslowski
Ph.D., Aeronautics,
2003 California Institute of Technology
M. S., Aeronautics,
1999 California Institute of Technology
B. Sc., Physics,
1997 University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
marisol@purdue.edu
Office: ARMS 3015, DLRC 103E
Phone: +1 765 496-1045
Marisol Koslowski is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Global Engineering Programs and Partnerships in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She received her B.S. degree in Physics in 1997 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and her M.S and Ph. D. degrees in Aeronautics in 1999 and 2003 from the California Institute of Technology. She was a Technical Staff Member in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining Purdue in 2005.
Professor Koslowski has made contributions in the development of theoretical and computational models to study the mechanical, thermal, and chemical response of materials. She leads an interdisciplinary research program with impact in nano and microelectronics, drug and food processing, polymer composites, alloys, and energetic materials. Her group focuses on the effect of heterogeneities, defects, and interfaces on the macroscopic behavior of materials.
Koslowski’s group has been supported by a combination of federal grants, including Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and funds from aeronautical (Lockheed Martin, Boeing), electronic (Intel Corporation, SRC), and pharmaceutical industries (Glaxo Smith Kline, Hoffman la Roche).
Andrew Pham
PhD
Andrew Pham is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering who joined Purdue University in Fall 2020, after graduating from Harvey Mudd College with a B.S. in engineering. He is a Lynn Fellow at Purdue, and working on projects sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corporation. His focus is on the application of multiphysics and phase-field models to current issues in semiconductor reliability.
Russell Moffat
PhD
Russell Moffat is currently pursuing a Ph.D in mechanical engineering at Purdue. Russell graduated with a B.S. in mechanical engineering at Purdue university in 2024. He continues his work at Purdue researching materials at high strain rates, and computational continuum methods. His current research focuses on polymer bound explosives, through use of equations of state and examination of ignition and growth models.
Fariha Haq
PhD
Email: haq4@purdue.edu
Fariha Haq is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering who joined Purdue University in Spring 2023. After graduating from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, she worked as a lecturer at Islamic University of Technology. Her area of interest includes microelectronics, semiconductors, defect engineering. Her research work focuses on multi-physics and phase-field based modeling of solder materials to study mechanical reliability of microelectronics.
Josh Block
MS
Joshua Block is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Queen’s University in Canada, where he grew an interest in the mechanics of materials. His current research is focused on the using finite element simulations to analyze material response to high strain rates, particularly for energetic materials. He is also participating in the Computational Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (CIGP).
Chongxi Yuan
PhD
Chongxi Yuan is a Ph.D student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with B.S. in ME. His area of interest is computational solid mechanics. Current research projects include hot-spot formation in energetic material, ceramic sintering and high velocity impact of metal.
Simon Gonzalez
PhD
Simon Gonzalez is a first year Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student who joined Purdue University in Spring 2025. Before joining Purdue as a graduate Research Assistant, he made part of the UREP-C program during the Spring 2024 semester as an undergraduate visiting scholar from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research interests are computational mechanics, multiscale modeling, shock physics, and Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINN) for modeling energetic materials. His current research is focused in multiscale and multi-fidelity modeling and simulation of energetic materials under shock conditions using reactive models, Shock-To-Detonation (SDT) transition in energetic materials, and high strain rate modeling of polymers.
Kathleen Martinus
MS
Kathleen Martinus is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. She completed a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue in 2024. Her interest is in modeling plasticity and fracture response in energetic materials due to high-velocity impact and investigating how computational tools can be applied within the solid mechanics area.
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