Management Team
Dr. Craig Blue
Chief Manufacturing Officer | ORNL
Dr. Bill Peter
Business Contact & Advanced Manufacturing Program Director | ORNL
Dr. Ryan R Dehoff
Director, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility | ORNL
Dr. Soydan Ozcan
Principal Investigator & Group Leader, Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies | ORNL
ozcans@ornl.gov
Dr. Habib Dagher, PE
Principal Investigator & Executive Director, ASCC | UM
hd@maine.edu
Dr. Susan MacKay
Program Lead & Chief Sustainable Materials Officer | UM
susan.mackay@maine.edu
Andrew Foster
Project Manager, Research Engineer | UM
andrew.foster1@maine.edu
Dr. Halil Levent Tekinalp
Senior R&D Staff | ORNL
tekinalphl@ornl.gov
Greg Simms
Project Manager, Technical Collaborations Coordinator, & Ph.D. Student – Material Science & Engineering | UM
gregory.simms@maine.edu
Dan Coughlin
Senior Staff, Leader of Industrial Collaborations | ORNL
coughlindr@ornl.gov
Sherith E Bankston
Technical Professional | ORNL
bankstonse@ornl.gov
Sana F Elyas
Technical Professional – Industrial Collaborations | ORNL
elyassf@ornl.gov
Nathan Faessler
Project Manager | UM
nathan.faessler@maine.edu
Additive and Advanced Manufacturing Team
Scott Tomlinson
Structural Engineering & AM Applications | UM
scott.tomlinson@composites.maine.edu
Dr. Brian Post
Group Leader – Disruptive Manufacturing Systems Development | ORNL
postbk@ornl.gov
Dr. Joshua Vaughan
Group Leader -Manufacturing Robotics and Controls | ORNL
Dr. Peter Wang
R&D Staff | ORNL
wangpl@ornl.gov
Andrew R. Gifford Ph.D
Lead – Process Development and Sensors – Advanced Manufacturing | UM
andrew.gifford@composites.maine.edu
Wesley Bisson
Additive Manufacturing Operations Manager | UM
wesley.bisson@maine.edu
Jason Stevens
Additive Manufacturing Lead Operator | UM
jason.stevens@maine.edu
Jared Palmer
Research Engineer | UM
jared.palmer@maine.edu
Jesse Heineman
Mechanical Engineer | ORNL
heinemanj@ornl.gov
Dr. Vipin Kumar
Senior R&D Staff – Composites Innovation | ORNL
kumarvi@ornl.gov
Alex Roschli
R&D Staff | ORNL
roschliac@ornl.gov
Emily Stauffer
Mechanical Engineer | UM
emily.j.stauffer@maine.edu
Chemistry Team
Dr. Art Ragauskas
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Biorefining | ORNL
Dr. Will Gramlich
Associate Professor | UM
william.gramlich@maine.edu
Dr. Carl Tripp
Professor of Chemistry | UM
ctripp@maine.edu
Dr. Meghan Lamm
R&D Associate Staff Member | ORNL
lammme@ornl.gov
Dr. Ahmad A. L. Ahmad
Postdoctoral Research Associate | UM
ahmad.ahmad@maine.edu
Laurel Grosjean
Research Engineer – Forest Bioproducts Research Institute | UM
laurel.grosjean@maine.edu
Peng Cheng
Chemistry PhD Student | UM
Ayan Dutta
Graduate Student of Chemistry | UM
ayan.dutta@maine.edu
HPC Simulation, Sensors, and Artificial Intelligence Team
Jeremy C. Smith
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in HPC Simulation | ORNL
smithjc@ornl.gov
Dr. Kris Villez
Sr. R&D Staff – Sensors and Electronics Group | ORNL
villezk@ornl.gov
Dr. Soekpum (Pum) Kim
R&D Scientist | ORNL
kimsp@ornl.gov
Dr. Dilrukshi Abeyrathne
Full Stack Software Staff Research Engineer | UM
d.abeyrathne@maine.edu
Dr. Vincent Paquit
Section Head, Secure & Digital Manufacturing | ORNL
Monojoy Goswami
R&D Staff Scientist | ORNL
goswamim@ornl.gov
Aissata Wadidie
Computer and Information Research Scientist | UM
aissata.wadidie@maine.edu
Austin Isner
Computational Scientist | ORNL
Bhagya Prabhune
Postdoctoral Research Associate | ORNL
prabhuneb@ornl.gov
Materials Team
Dr. Uday Vaidya
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Composite Manufacturing | ORNL
Dr. Xuefeng Zhang
Associate Professor of Sustainable Materials & Technology | UM
xuefeng.zhang1@maine.edu
Dr. David Neivandt
Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering | UM
david.neivandt@maine.edu
Dr. Mehdi Tajvidi
Professor of Renewable Nanomaterials | UM
mehdi.tajvidi@maine.edu
Dr. Colleen Walker
Director, Process Development Center | UM
colleen.walker@maine.edu
Dr. Andy Zhao
R&D Staff | ORNL
zhaox@ornl.gov
Dr. Katie Copenhaver
R&D Staff | ORNL
Dr. Siamak Shams Es-haghi
Assistant Research Professor of Rheology and Polymer Science | UM
shams@maine.edu
Dr. Amber M. Hubbard
R&D Staff Member | ORNL
hubbardam@ornl.gov
Dr. Cait Clarkson
Associate R&D Staff Scientist | ORNL
clarksoncm@ornl.gov
Dr. Ahmed Hassen
Group Leader – Composites Innovation | ORNL
Dr. Donna Johnson
Research Manager, Process Development Center | UM
donna.johnson@maine.edu
Dr. Evan K. Wujcik
Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering | UM
evan.wujcik@maine.edu
Dr. Maryam El Hajam
Postdoctoral Research Associate | UM
maryam.el1@maine.edu
Justin Crouse
Staff Scientist | UM
justin.crouse@maine.edu
Kristian Lonseth
Biobased Materials Technician | UM
kristian.lonseth@maine.edu
Amy Luce
Manager, Technology Research Center | UM
amy.e.luce@maine.edu
Charles Eme
Graduate Research Assistant | UM
charles.eme@maine.edu
Sanjita Wasti
Postdoctoral Research Associate | ORNL
wastis@ornl.gov
Umesh Marathe
Postdoctoral Research Associate | UT-ORII
maratheun@ornl.gov
Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis Team
Kristina Armstrong
R&D Associate Staff | ORNL
armstrongko@ornl.gov
Reed Miller Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering | UM
reed.miller@maine.edu
Angelina Buzzelli
Communications Specialist & Market Research Analyst | UM
angelina.buzzelli@maine.edu
Dr. Dipti D Kamath
R&D Associate Staff Member | ORNL
Komal Kooduvalli
PhD Candidate in Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology (PIT) | ORNL