Dr. Molly Carton joined the Portela Group as a Postdoctoral Associate.
The Portela group is happy to welcome Michael, Sam and Andrew to the group.
Congratulations to our grad students Somayajulu Dhulipala and Rachel Sun for being selected as MathWorks fellows for 2022.
Prof. Carlos Portela has been recognized as one of the innovators in the category of Materials Science in the MIT Technological Review 2022: 35 innovators under 35.
MIT’s Industry Liaison Program (ILP) features our research on their front page.Link to full storyLink to video
We are honored to receive the CAREER award from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program, to continue our explorations on the mechanics of self-architected materials.
Rachel Sun has joined the Portela Group after graduating from Caltech, a brief internship at Tesla, and receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! She will be exploring the mechanics and fabrication of reconfigurable metamaterials. Welcome, Rachel!
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We are proud to share this collaborative effort with the Nelson Group at MIT.
We were recognized for our Carlos’ presentation at MRS Spring 2021