Faculty Members

Prof. Antonio Bobet

Antonio Bobet

Professor of Civil Engineering

bobet@purdue.edu

Prof. Daniel Dumbacher

Daniel Dumbacher

Professor of Practice of Aeronautics and Astronautics

ddumbach@purdue.edu

Prof. Shirley Dyke

Shirley Dyke

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering

sdyke@purdue.edu

Prof. Jay Melosh

Jay Melosh

Distinguished Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

jmelosh@purdue.edu

Prof. Julio Ramirez

Julio Ramirez

Professor of Civil Engineering
Director of the Network Coordination Office for the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure

ramirez@purdue.edu

Prof. Haiyan Wang

Haiyan Wang

Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering, Schools of Materials Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

hwang00@purdue.edu

Prof. Dawn Whitaker

Dawn Whitaker

School of Industrial Engineering
Program Manager
Indiana Space Grant Consortium

dwhitaker@purdue.edu

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr Amin Maghareh

Amin Maghareh

Civil Engineering

Working on experiments in a low-g environment, identification and quantification of hazards associated with extraterrestrial habitats.

amaghare@purdue.edu

Dr Anahita Modiriasari

Anahita Modiriasari

Civil Engineering

Numerical analysis of the stability of sublunarian structures as a subsurface base for extraterrestrial habitats

amodiria@purdue.edu

Graduate Students

Daniel Gomez

Daniel Gomez

Civil Engineering PhD Candidate

Developing a performance-based design procedure to design extraterrestrial habitats

dgomezp@purdue.edu

Audai (Ed) Theinat

Audai (Ed) Theinat

Civil Engineering PhD Candidate

Simulation of stability of lava tubes

atheinat@purdue.edu

BradChoi

Jongseong (Brad) Choi

Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate

Designing a model of Lava Tube for remote access in a virtual environment.

choi343@purdue.edu

Ali Lenjani

Ali Lenjani

Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate

A computational platform to assess resilience

alenjani@purdue.edu

Undergraduate Students

Sanchit Badamikar

Sanchit Badamikar

Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Analyzing the mechanical structure and design of an inflatable module usable as a crew habitat on extra-terrestrial surfaces and in deep-space

sbadamik@purdue.edu

Hayley Bower

Hayley Bower

Engineering Physics, Anderson University

Evaluating the risks of radiation exposure in the lunar environment to design an extraterrestrial habitat capable of protecting lunar inhabitants from the harmful effects of radiation

hbower@purdue.edu

Herta Montoya

Herta Montoya

Civil Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

Developing a risk-assessment platform for meteoroid impacts to design lunar habitats

hmontoy@purdue.edu

Nicole Rote

Nicole Rote

Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Quantifying the hazard of thermal extremes for extraterrestrial habitats

nrote@purdue.edu

Corey Beck

Corey M. Beck

Civil Engineering, Purdue University

Development of Design Characteristics for Meteoroid Impacts

beck50@purdue.edu

Ajay Radhakrishnan

Ajay Radhakrishnan

Civil Engineering, Purdue University

Laboratory Modeling of Geological Formation of Lava Tubes

radhakr3@purdue.edu

Jacob Just

Jacob Just

Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Lava tube virtual reality

justj@purdue.edu

Jory Lyons

Jory Lyons

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University

Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis and hazards/surface virtual reality modeling assistant

lyons41@purdue.edu

Anthony Boener

Anthony Boener

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University

iSALE/Computer modeling assistant

aboener@purdue.edu