Nicholas Tjahjono, a fourth-year doctoral student in our group and a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities Fellow has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of the Rice’s MSNE Department.

Tjahjono’s research aims to aid in NASA’s Artemis mission to the moon and beyond. His objective is to develop mechanically robust and self-healing materials capable of operating under, and protecting astronauts from, extreme space environments such as extreme heat and cold, bombardment from micrometeoroids and orbital debris, and galactic cosmic radiation.