• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Matthew Powell-Palm

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley — 2020
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University — 2016
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University – 2015

Research Interests

    • Materials and biological thermodynamics
    • Organ and tissue cryopreservation
    • Entropy engineering in performance liquids
    • Thermogalvanic waste-heat recovery processes
    • High-dimensional thermodynamics and phase diagrams
    • Metastability and non-equilibrium states
    • Supercooling, nucleation, and vitrification processes
    • Thermodynamic interventions in medicine, agriculture, and conservation biology
    • Planetary thermodynamics of icy worlds

Awards & Honors

  • DARPA Young Faculty Award - 2025
  • ASME / Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal - 2025
  • Society for Cryobiology Dayong Gao Young Investigator Award - 2025
  • Arthur W. Rowe Best Paper Award, Society for Cryobiology - 2023

Selected Publications

  • A. Alliston, C. Dames, M.J. Powell-Palm. A Size-Dependent Ideal Solution Model for Liquid-Solid Phase Equilibria Prediction in Aqueous Organic Solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415843122
  • A. Zarriz$, B. Journaux, M.J. Powell-Palm. On the equilibrium limit of liquid stability in pressurized aqueous systems. Nature Communications (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54625-z
  • E. Hosseini, M. Zakertabrizi, M. Hosseini, M.J. Powell-Palm. On a continuous aqueous thermogalvanic redox agent with anomalous thermopower. Nano Letters (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02774
  • A. N. Consiglio, D. Lilley, R. Prasher, B. Rubinsky, M. J. Powell-Palm, "Methods to stabilize aqueous supercooling identified by use of an isochoric nucleation detection (INDe) device", Cryobiology 106 (2022) 91–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2022.03.003
  • M.J. Powell-Palm, V. Charwat, B. Charrez, B.A. Siemons, K.E. Healy, B. Rubinsky. Isochoric supercooled preservation and revival of human cardiac microtissues. Communications Biology. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02650-9
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