Alumni Profiles

Brianna MacNider

  • Program Years: 2021-2024
  • Academic Institution: University of California, San Diego
  • Field of Study: Aerospace Engineering
  • Academic Advisor: Nicholas Boechler
  • Residencies:
    N/A

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (2023)
  • Degree(s):
    B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2016
    M.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2020
    Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2024

Current Status

  • Research Area: Aerospace Engineering

Publications

Publications:

Behrou, R., Abi Ghanem, M., Macnider, B., Verma, V., Alvey, A., Hong, J., Emery, A. F., Kim, H. A., and Boechler, N., Topology optimization of nonlinear periodically microstructured materials for tailored homogenized constitutive properties, Composite Structures, 2021

MacNider, B., Xudong, L., Hoang, S., Abi Ghanem, M., Cai, S., Boechler, N., Dynamic compression of soft layered materials yields tunable and spatiotemporally evolving surface patterns, Physical Review E, 2023

Ryan Fancher, Ian Frankel, KCH Chin, Maroun Abi Ghanem, Brianna MacNider, Logan S Shannahan, James F Berry, Muge Fermen-Coker, Andrew J Boydston, Nicholas Boechler, Dependence of the kinetic energy absorption capacity of bistable mechanical metamaterials on impactor mass and velocity, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2023

Haning Xiu, Ian Frankel, Harry Liu, Kai Qian, Siddhartha Sarkar, Brianna MacNider, Zi Chen, Nicholas Boechler, Xiaoming Mao, Synthetically non-Hermitian nonlinear wave-like behavior in a topological mechanical metamaterial, PNAS, 2023

Brianna MacNider, David Jones, Jesse Callanan, Matt Beason, George T Gray III, Dana M Dattelbaum, Nicholas Boechler, Saryu Fensin, In situ measurement of damage evolution in shocked magnesium as a function of microstructure, Science Advances, 2023

Awards

Regents Scholarship (UC San Diego), 2011

Ernest Mort International Scholarship (UC San Diego), 2013

Outstanding Contribution to AIAA Student Chapter at UC San Diego, 2014

Simon Ramo Award for Systems Engineering Excellence: Awarded by Northrop
Grumman as a member of a systems engineering team, March 2018

Lightning Talk Competition, ReACt and UC Southern Hub Computational Mechanics & Sciences Workshop, 2021

Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship, 2021