News

The MMAX Lab has been selected for the ASCEND^R Research and Leadership Program. This award will fund our work in advanced metal-polymer composites for use as next generation thermal protection of reusable spacecraft.

Thank you to the HSRU Award Selection Committee for their support!

Roenigk Straub has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) to support his work in understanding the permeable metal structures fabricated via powder bed fusion. We look forward to Roenigk's continued development at the MMAX Lab as a result of the NSF fellowship.

Congratulations, Roenigk!

Prof. Oropeza has won the 2025 Young Investigator Award for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). 

Thank you to the STAR Awards Selection Committee for their support and to SHPE for the honor!

The MMAX Lab has received an equipment grant from the Office of Naval Research. This award will fund equipment for elemental analysis of impurities (C/H/N/O/S), upgraded ultrasonic atomization equipment, high-speed imaging tools, and dedicated computing hardware for machine learning to advance our work on ultrasonic atomization and refractory alloys.

Thank you to our sponsors at ONR for their continued support!

Logan Winston has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) to support his work in understanding the fundamentals of ultrasonic atomization of metals. Extremely proud of Logan's hard work and a particularly exciting award given added competition this year. We look forward to Logan's continued development at the MMAX Lab as a result of the NSF fellowship.

Congratulations, Logan!

Prof. Oropeza has been awarded the LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative award. This award will fund our work in near-net-shape processing of ultra-high temperature ceramics and provide key interactions with LLNL. 

Thank you to the LLNL Award Selection Committee for their support and we look forward to a sustained collaboration between UCSB and LLNL!

More details here.