People

Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, India, and his M.S. in Smart Product Design from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before joining Texas A&M University, Manivannan worked as an Application Engineer at Mason Industries Pte Ltd, Singapore, and as a Research Engineer at the National University of Singapore. His current research focuses on developing implantable engineered living materials for therapeutic applications.

Konstantinos Stamatis is a PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Texas A&M University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Chemistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and completed his Master of Science degree in a collaborative program between the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the National Centre of Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’ and the Department of Chemistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Konstantinos joined the Ware Lab and Sukhishvili Lab in August 2023. His research interests center on the development of innovative materials that combine Dynamic Polymer Networks with Liquid Crystals Elastomers, with the goal of creating stimuli-responsive materials for biomedical applications.