Welcome to the Mara Research Group!

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Our team’s research currently centers around three main thrusts:

  • Interface-dominant mechanical behavior of materials
  • Materials for service under extreme conditions
  • Nanomechanics of pharmaceutical molecular crystals
     

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News

June 2026: Mauricio successfully defends his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations!  
March 2026: University of Minnesota wins the grand prize at the TMS Bladesmithing Competition. Congratulations to our team members Courtney and Eli!
December 2025: Minh-Tam's work on developing a framework to predict creep rupture in engineering alloys is published in Materials & Design.
October 2025:  The Mara group welcomes a new graduate student Jiahua Lu and new undergraduate students Eli Peterson and Najma Jamac.
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