Partner With Us

Joining the UC San Diego CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials & Systems provides access to faculty, researchers, and graduate students who are transforming fields critical to the design, testing and manufacturing of materials and systems for extreme environments. The Center provides industry partners with a coordinated research environment through which technical and research challenges are tackled in a collaborative environment.

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Benefits of Partnership

There are many ways companies can benefit from partnering with the Center. Possibilities include:

Recruit our top students
Collaborate one-on-one with faculty
Embed a visiting Industry Fellow in our labs
Industry-faculty-student research teams
Biannual Research Reviews
Fast-track research agreements
Access to commercialization engine with lab-to-market focus

CONTACTS FOR INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP

Find out about recruiting students, getting involved in research, attending workshops and more.

Lon McPhail
Director, Corporate Research Partnerships, Jacobs School of Engineering
Email: lmcphail@eng.ucsd.edu
Phone: +1 (619) 840-7600

FACULTY DIRECTORS

Olivia A. Graeve
Director, CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials & Systems
Professor. Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: ograeve@ucsd.edu
Lab website

Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Co-Director, CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials & Systems
Professor of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
Email: ruortiz@ucsd.edu

Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt
Co-Director, CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials & Systems
Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, CNyN-UNAM
Email: rvd@cnyn.unamn.mx

CONTACTS FOR THE NEWS MEDIA

Liezel Labios
Public Information Officer
Email: llabios@ucsd.edu
Phone: +1 (858) 246-1124
Jacobs School of Engineering Newsroom