Ryan Wagner is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue in 2008 and 2014 respectively. He has had Postdoctoral Researcher appointments in the Materials Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder campus, the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg campus, and the atomic force microscope manufacturing company Asylum Research. His research interests include nanotechnology, microscopy, metrology, and dynamics.