https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/Recent content in Meet the Team on Website of The Granular Mechanics Research Laboratory at Florida International UniversityHugo -- gohugo.ioenMon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/anil-misra/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/anil-misra/Bio Dr. Anil Misra serves as the director of the Granular Micromechanics Research Laboratory. He also serves as the Chair and Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University, Miami. He was previously the Glenn L. Parker-James L. Tyson Professor of Engineering Mechanics in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and Associate Director of KU Institute for Bioengineering Research (IBER).https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/nurettin-yilmaz/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/nurettin-yilmaz/Nurettin Yilmaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Florida International University since January 2025. He holds a B.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of L’Aquila. His research bridges mathematical modeling, computational mechanics, and continuum mechanics, with a focus on understanding the mechanical behavior of granular materials using continuum models. Nurettin is currently contributing to research on granular motif metamaterials and constitutive modeling using the Granular Micromechanics Approach.https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/larry-murcia-terranova/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/larry-murcia-terranova/Larry Murcia is a PhD student in Civil Engineering at Florida International University and a PhD student in Mathematics and Modeling at the University of L’Aquila. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a degree in Applied Mathematics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. His research interests include variational modeling, nonlinear dynamics, solid mechanics, metamaterials, and nonlinear oscillatory systems. Larry is currently working on variational models for metamaterials and granular materials, focusing on the development and analysis of mathematical frameworks for complex mechanical systems with nonlinear and emergent behavior.https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/seung-jae-lee/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/seung-jae-lee/Bio Dr. Seung Jae Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-director of the Granular Micromechanics Research Laboratory. He also currently serves as the Undergraduate Program Director within the department. His research trajectory has evolved through a multidisciplinary background spanning architectural engineering, structural engineering, and computational granular mechanics. Dr. Lee began his academic training in architectural engineering at Sungkyunkwan University and started his professional career as a building façade engineer at the LG Industrial Materials Research Institute.https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/dipak-dahal/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/dipak-dahal/Dipak Dahal is a Ph.D. student since August 2024, admitted directly into the doctoral program after completing his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Pokhara University. His research focuses on understanding granular materials through particle-scale characterization and establishing links between microscopic particle attributes and macroscopic material behavior. Dipak is currently contributing to the development the Particle Geometry Space (PGS) framework, an analytical approach designed to comprehensively represent three-dimensional particle characteristics within a unified framework.https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/anuragi-thapa/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/anuragi-thapa/Anuragi Thapa is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering since January 2025, admitted directly into the doctoral program after completing her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National College of Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University. Her research interests lie in understanding and predicting granular flow behavior through computational modeling of the particulate nature of materials. Anuragi is currently contributing to “DEMIAN – Discrete Element Method Infused with Artificial Neural computations”" as a research assistant.https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/lance-a-roberts/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/lance-a-roberts/https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/ranganathan-parthasarathy/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lgchemer.github.io/gmrl/team/ranganathan-parthasarathy/