Owen Meilander

On April 10th, both Haley and Owen presented posters at Vanderbilt’s 5th annual ECE Day. Owen’s poster, ‘Heatless Soldering via ULMCS Particles: A Novel Metallic Adhesion Layer for Micro-Transfer Printing and Heterogeneous GaN Integration’ won the Best Student Poster Award!… Read More

On November 13th, Owen presented at the 25th annual VINSE NanoDay. At this event, he won both the t-shirt design conference along with the Best Poster Award for his Poster entitled ‘Advancing GaN Electronics through Substrate Engineering and Integration’. Read More

On October 13th, Owen Meilander was recognized with the VINSE Distinguished Service Award at the 19th annual VINSE Fall Faculty Celebration for his exemplary contributions that strengthen research and STEM outreach within the VINSE community. Read more here. Read More

On August 11th and 12th, Prof. Mona Ebrish and Owen attended the 2025 Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices at the University of Florida. This included a presentation by Owen where he won Best Poster! Congratulations to Owen!… Read More

On August 13th, Haley and Owen were able to present the exciting work exploring the optimization of metal/GaN contacts that they have been doing at Oak Ridge National Lab! This gave them the opportunity to make many connections for future collaborations. Read More

On June 26 – 28, Haley, Owen, and Prof. Ebrish attended the 66th annual Electronic Materials Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. This included presentations by both Haley and Owen, marking the first presentations in the EEDG group!… Read More

On May 10th, Owen received the Graduate Spotlight Award from the ECE department for his outstanding work and for receiving an Honorable Mention for the NSF GRFP!… Read More

On Thursday, Owen was selected as an honorable mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), a significant national academic achievement. This esteemed program identifies exceptional graduate students engaged in pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees within the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Read More

Owen was recently chosen by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) for a Researcher Highlight. He was recognized for his work both in the lab and outside of it. Read the rest of the story here!        … Read More

Recently, Owen was recognized by VINSE as the first NanoGuide to complete five outreach events! His continues to support this initiative by both teaching the visiting students along with training the other NanoGuides on many of the stations. Read more at the following link.       If… Read More