Andrew Neils is a Research Assistant Professor on the engineering team at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, ME. He has experience in additive manufacturing, experimental mechanics, metallurgy, polymer science and materials characterization, with applications to the aerospace, defense and biomedical industries. Neils’ interdisciplinary engineering research also includes the application of data analytics strategies, including machine learning, to understanding process-structure-property relationships of additively manufactured parts.
Neils earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Biology from Bucknell University and his master’s and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Virginia where he studied the mechanical properties of additively manufactured metal lattice structures. Prior to joining The Roux Institute, Neils was Chief Executive Officer of Topologica, Inc., a startup developing patent protected additively manufactured polymer foams for use in NFL football helmets. He spent five years with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA where his research focus was the development of polymer liners used in total joint arthroplasty. His first position in New England was with the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
Neils is an avid rower, having competed on the national team and at Olympic trials, as well as a ultramarathoner and gravel cyclist.
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