People

Principal Investigator

Prof. Eve Mozur

Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Eve grew up outside of Boston, in the town where the Salem Witch Trials happened (not Salem!). She moved out west for college and hasn’t left since. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, OR with a B.A. in Chemistry. She completed her PhD in Chemistry in the lab of Prof. Jamie Neilson at Colorado State University, investigating the role of organic cation dynamics in hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics. After earning her PhD, Eve worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California Santa Barbara under Prof. Ram Seshadri. There, she studied the affect of composition on the formation of large magnetic bodies, such as skyrmions. When not at Mines campus, Eve spends her time hiking, camping, reading fiction, and baking.

Office: Hill Hall 356

Contact: evemozur@mines.edu

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graduate Researchers

Jordan Sweeney

Jordan grew up in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (Amish country!). She moved to Florida in high school where she fell in love with electrochemistry doing her first big project on batteries. She spent her undergrad at the University of Florida, receiving a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with a certificate in Semiconductor Materials. Her undergraduate research consisted of writing scripts in Python to help interpret TEM images, particularly improper ferroelectrics for her honors thesis. Her first internship was at Materion where she worked on beryllium copper alloys. She also spent a summer here at Mines with the Maughan group working on antiperovskite electrolytes. Outside of the lab, Jordan loves synchronized swimming, reading murder mysteries, and playing several musical instruments.

Nathan Cretegny

Nathan is a first year Materials Science PhD student

UnDERgraduate Researchers

Andrew hope

Andrew grew up outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In high school, Andrew fell in love with chemistry after doing an independent study of nickel electroplating. He decided to escape the frozen swamp of Minnesota and study material engineering at Colorado School of Mines. When he isn’t studying or in the lab, Andrew is an avid skier, mountaineer, and rock climber. Over the summer Andrew worked in the steel industry optimizing the steel recycling process and alloy recovery. He hopes to use his experience in industry to aid his research.

Bryce Walsh

Bryce grew up in Katonah, New York, about an hour north of New York City. From a young age, he always loved computers, whether it was building them from spare parts he got from his neighbors or coding simple games in Scratch. He decided to head out west to study Data Science at the Colorado School of Mines and, of course, to ski. He has completed an internship at the Rio Tinto – Kennecott mine, where he built a machine learning model to identify malfunctioning sensors, and another at Transamerica, where he worked with various teams to implement generative AI into current systems. Bryce loves doing anything outdoors and is an avid runner, skier, and hiker.

Aryn Loew

Aryn grew up in Longmont, Colorado. Aryn discovered her passion for Chemistry when her grandad explained atomic bonding and Bohr’s Atomic Theory to her at 6 years old. Aryn was homeschooled for K-12 and is now a senior in Ceramic Engineering. She discovered materials science in highschool and quickly became fascinated by how understanding materials on the microscopic level we can predict and control their properties. For the rest of her undergraduate, Aryn has done computational research on predicting surface geometries. When time allows, Aryn also enjoys cooking/baking, knitting, reading, walking/hiking, and playing board games with friends.

Alumni

Undergraduate Researchers	Current Position
Claire Vozel	Graduate student at University of California Santa Barbara
Emily Stec	Graduate student at University of Oregon

Material Science REU Researchers	Home Institution
Kieran McDonnell	Haverford College
Julissa Cesareo	University of California Santa Barbara
Corryn Hiers	Arapahoe Community College