People
 Dr. Jacob L. Jones
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Dr. Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida with research interests in ferroelectric and piezoelectric ceramics, mechanical behavior of materials, and crystallography and has published over 60 papers on these topics since 2004. Dr. Jones' research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and various industrial sponsors. He has received numerous research awards including the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2007), a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2009) awarded at a White House ceremony in January 2010, the IEEE Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award (2011), a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) 2009 Defense Program Award of Excellence, and the 2010 Edward C. Henry “Best Paper” award from the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society. From UF, he has been recognized through the prestigious Pramod Khargonekar Award (2012), the HHMI Science for Life Distinguished Mentor (DM) Award (2012), a 2010 Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, and three MSE Faculty Excellence Awards (2010, 2011, 2012). Dr. Jones' research group is comprised of postdoctoral research associates and graduate and undergraduate students. The group is international, interdisciplinary, and undertakes both fundamental science and applied engineering problems.
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 Dr. Jennifer S. Forrester
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Dr. Forrester is a postdoctoral research associate with research interests in ceramics, diffraction, and ferroelectrics. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, Australia in 2002 and has 6 years of experience as a Research Academic in the Advanced Materials Laboratory at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of 26 journal publications in journals including Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Materials Science, and Journal of Solid State Chemistry. |
 Dr. Goknur Tutuncu
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Dr. Tutuncu received her PhD from Iowa State University in 2010 on constitutive behavior of ferroelectric ceramics by in situ diffraction techniques. She has an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University and currently is interested in evolution of domain structure in ferroelectrics during application of an external stimulus and application of high energy diffraction methods. |
 Dr. Dipankar Ghosh
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Dr. Dipankar Ghosh received his PhD in 2009 from the University of Florida on micromechanisms of deformation in advanced structural ceramics for protections against impact threats and ultra-high temperature aerospace applications. Dr. Ghosh obtained his M.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and B.Tech. from the Calcutta University, India. Currently, he is interested in designing novel multiferroic architectures for multifunctional sensors and investigating the role of ferromagnetic-ferroelectric interfaces on the magneto-electric coupling. |
 Anderson D. Prewitt
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Anderson came to UF in 2006 with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Florida A&M University/Florida State University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida. |
 Krishna Nittala
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Krishna came to UF in August 2007 and joined our group in January 2009. His thesis research is in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and he also manages our laboratory diffractometer. |
 Shruti Seshadri
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Shruti joined our group in July 2009. She has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Materials Science and is working on domain-related effects in ferroelectrics. |
 Christopher Fell
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Chris Fell is co-advised by Dr. Shirley Meng and is working on cathode design for new high performance battery materials. |
 Elena Aksel
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Elena came to UF with a BS in Chemical Engineering in 2008 and is working on doping, defects, and domain-related effects in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3. From July-December 2009, Elena is working with our collaborators in Germany. |
 Sung Wook Mhin
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Sung Wook came to UF in 2009 with a BS in Ceramic Engineering and an MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Hanyang University in Korea. |
 Tedi-Marie Usher
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Tedi-Marie joined the group in Fall 2010 and has a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida. She is working on Domain Wall Evolution in Phase-Transforming Oxides. |
 Thanakorn(Bas) Iamsasri
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Thanakorn(Bas) Iamsasri joined the group in fall 2011 as a PhD student. |
 Humberto Foronda
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Humberto started working in our group as an undergraduate research student and was selected to start the Scholars program in the summer of 2009. His project is related to doped Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 piezoelectric ceramics. |
 Akito Sakata
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Akito is a Senior MSE student currently working on grain size effects on dielectric and piezoelectric properties in bulk nano-BaTiO3 ceramics. His research is sponsored by the Florida Cluster for Advanced Smart Sensor Technologies. |
 Katherine Dunnigan
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Katherine is a Junior ABE student and has been co-sponsored under the Research Experience in Materials (REM) program and Sandia National Laboratories. She is working on processing of ferroelectric thin films. |
 Michelle Nolan
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Michelle is a Junior chemistry major. She is working on processing and structure of piezoelectric materials with Shruti. |
 Cassandra Llano
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Cassie is a Junior in the MSE program and has participating in our group through the REM program. She is also the recent recipient of an HHMI award. She is working on the implementation of a polarization and strain measurement set-up. |
 Lyndsey Denis
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Lyndsey is a Junior Chemical Engineering student and is working on processing and structure of piezoelectric materials with Dr. Forrester on the Army Research Office PECASE award. |
 Ali Henriques
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Ali is a sophomore Chemical Engineering student and works primarily on the synthesis of new piezoelectric ceramics. |
 Jared Carter
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Jared is a sophomore MSE student and is participating in our group through the REM program. He is working on processing of NBT-related materials. |
 Zachary Wagner
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Zachary is a Senior MSE student working on PZT piezoelectrics to gather and harness usable energy. |
 Patrick Wanninkhof
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Patrick is a senior in MSE completing his senior thesis project. He is investigating the processing of PZT for piezoelectric vibrational energy harvesting. |
 Frank Luciano
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Frank is a sophomore MSE student sponsored through the REM program, working with piezoelectric thin-film energy harvesting for sensory applications with SungWook Mhin. |  Natasha Woodruff
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Natasha is a Freshman MSE student sponsored through the REM program. |
Group Photo
The picture below shows the group as of September 1, 2011 (not pictured: Michelle Nolan, Goknur Tutuncu).
