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Rensselaer's Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering department is delighted to welcome Dr. Jacob Merson. Dr. Merson's research focuses on multi-scale mechanics of materials and associated multi-scale analysis code development, very large-scale computing on the latest and future massively-parallel computer architectures, multi-physics modeling, and simulation.