Read more about the newest members of the AE faculty:

Marcus Holzinger is an Assistant Professor who has joined the Space Systems Design Laboratory. Holzinger's research interests are in Space Situational Awareness, Guidance, Navigation & Control, Formation Flight, Rendezvous & Proximity Operations, Estimation & Sensor Fusion, and Strategic Analysis. He received his PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder, under the direction of Prof. Daniel Scheeres and has been a Senior Research Associate working with Prof. Kyle T. Alfriend at Texas A&M. He has previously worked on monopropellant hydrazine propulsion systems for Aerojet on the THEMIS satellites and formation flight, rendezvous, and proximity operations research for Northrop Grumman Space Technology, including work on the Phase I portion of the F6 program.

Michael Mello is an Assistant Professor who has joined the Structures and Materials Disciplinary Group. Mello received his B.S. in Physics from Bridgewater State University in 1985 and an M.S. in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1988. His roots in the field of solid mechanics trace back to Brown University where he worked as a research engineer in the Division of Engineering from 1988-1997. Following his tenure at Brown, Mike was a Sr. Electronics Packaging engineer at Intel Corporation where he went on to develop and manage the company's lead packaging mechanics laboratory. In 2006 Mike left Intel to pursue a PhD in Aeronautics at Cal Tech, which he obtained in 2012. Mello’s current research interests lie within the broad field of experimental solid mechanics, with a particular focus on micro-mechanics of space electronics and the development of optical techniques for the dynamic and thermo-mechanical characterization of novel engineering materials, and aerospace structures.

Min-Feng Yu is a Professor who has joined the Structures and Materials Disciplinary Group.Yu pioneered the introduction of several new scientific concepts related to nanoscale systems and the development of novel experimental methods that accelerated the fundamental study of nanomaterials and enabled the practical 3-D nanofabrication of nanostructures, such as the multi-degrees of freedom nanomanipulators for scanning electron microscope and the meniscus-confined 3-D nanofabrication technologies. He was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign prior to coming to Georgia Tech. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Fudan University, and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively.Yu's research interests span from understanding basic mechanics and physics of materials to the nanomanufacturing of related microscale/nanoscale devices and systems.