V.S. Arunachalam

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy, India; and Carnegie Mellon University, USA; tel. 91-80-42490000; and email [email protected].

Arunachalam is the chairman of the Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), a Bangalore-based think tank dealing with projects within which technology is the enabler. Before he co-founded CSTEP, he was a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received numerous awards in India, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for his contribution to engineering and the Defense Research and Development Organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2015). Arunachalam was the guest editor for the MRS Bulletin special issue “Harnessing Materials for Energy” in April 2008.

Dipankar Banerjee

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India; tel. 91-80-22932558; and email [email protected].

Banerjee is professor in the Department of Materials Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. His current research interests address various aspects of the science of engineering materials encompassing synthesis, structure, processing, and properties with an emphasis on titanium and its alloys. He is a past president of the Indian Institute of Metals, and is currently on the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Banerjee has been awarded India’s premier science award, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the field of Engineering Sciences, and has been recognized with the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian awards by the Government of India.

Yang-Tse Cheng

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, USA; email [email protected].

Cheng is the Frank J. Derbyshire Professor of Materials Science at the University of Kentucky. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the California Institute of Technology. He has been active in MRS activities since he was a graduate student, serving as a presenter, symposium organizer, MRS Bulletin volume organizer in 2008, a 2005 MRS Fall Meeting chair, and Journal of Materials Research principal editor from 2001 to the present. Previously, he was a technical Fellow and laboratory group manager for engineered surfaces and functional materials at the General Motors R&D Center. He was a recipient of an MRS Graduate Student Award in 1987 and is a Fellow of APS and MRS.

James C. Williams

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA; tel. 614-292-7251; and email [email protected].

Williams is a professor of materials science and engineering and Honda Chair Emeritus at The Ohio State University and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Washington. His awards include the 2010 AIME James Douglas Gold Medal, the 2010 ASTM Committee B10 Russ Ogden Award, the 2011 ASM International Henry Marion Howe Medal, and the 2012 AIME/TMS Champion H. Mathewson Award. Williams is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of TMS/AIME and ASM International.

David D. Awschalom

Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA; and Argonne National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Awschalom is the Liew Family Professor in Spintronics and Quantum Information in the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He received an IBM Innovation Award, the IUPAP International Magnetism Prize, the APS Oliver Buckley Prize and Julius Lilienfeld Prize, the EPS Europhysics Prize, and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize. Awschalom is a Fellow of the APS and AAAS, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the European Academy of Sciences.

Sudarsanam Suresh Babu

Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; and Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, USA; email [email protected].

Babu is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, and also serves as the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from PSG College of Technology, India, and his master’s degree in industrial welding metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Babu obtained his PhD degree in materials science and metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Andrea Baldi

Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, The Netherlands; and Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Baldi is a group leader at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research and a visiting researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS degrees in chemistry from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and his PhD degree in physics from the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2010, he was awarded the Young Energy Scientist (YES!) Fellowship from the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter. Baldi’s research focuses on the application of nanotechnology to the storage and conversion of energy.

Phillip Ball

Science Writer, Nature, London, UK; email [email protected].

Ball is a freelance writer and a former editor at Nature. He writes on all areas of science for the popular and technical press, and is the author of many books on science and its interactions with society, including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, and Curiosity. Ball’s latest book is Invisible (University of Chicago Press).

Amit Bandyopadhyay

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, USA; tel. 509-335-4862; and email [email protected].

Bandyopadhyay is a Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. His research is focused on additive manufacturing of hard materials toward structural and biomedical applications. He has published over 250 technical articles, holds 11 US patents, and has edited eight books. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, The American Ceramic Society, American Society for Materials, and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Brian Baum

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Baum is working toward a PhD degree in materials science and engineering at Stanford University, where he has a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He received his BS degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 and his MS degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University in 2012. Baum’s current research interests include simulation and fabrication of nanophotonic and parity-time symmetric devices.

Job Boekhoven

Institute for Advanced Study and Chemistry Department Technische Universität München; email [email protected].

Boekhoven received his MSc degree in chemistry in 2008 from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree in chemistry in 2012 from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. During his PhD studies, he explored the use of dissipative self-assembly and multicomponent self-assembly as a tool to create responsive materials. He pursued his academic career as a Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, where his research focused on the use of dynamic materials with properties controlled over space and time and their use in regenerative medicine. Boekhoven holds a Rudolf Mossbauer Professorship in the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Susmita Bose

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, USA; tel. 509-335-7461; and email [email protected].

Bose is a Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair Professor of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. Her research interests include the interface of chemistry, materials science, and biology, involving orthopedic implants, 3D printing, and drug delivery. She received the National Science Foundation Presidential CAREER Award as well as Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering and Fulrath Awards from The American Ceramic Society (ACerS). She has published over 200 papers. Bose is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the ACerS.

Ian W. Boyd

Brunel University London, UK; tel. +44 (0) 1895267419; and email [email protected].

Boyd is Chair of Materials and director of the Experimental Techniques Center (ETC) at Brunel University London. He graduated with BSc and PhD degrees in laser physics from Heriot-Watt University. After postdoctorate studies at the University of North Texas, he took a tenured lectureship position in electronic engineering at University College London, where he subsequently obtained a chair in electronic materials and co-founded the London Centre for Nanotechnology. After serving as director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, he became director of the ETC. He is a former president of the European Materials Research Society and former member of the MRS Board of Directors. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Rodney Boyer

RBTi Consulting, USA; tel. 425-747-1813; and email [email protected].

Boyer is an independent consultant. He spent almost 47 years at The Boeing Company, about 45 as a Ti specialist and 35 years as the lead engineer of the Titanium Metallurgy Group. He has been responsible for directing the Ti research for commercial airplanes, Ti procurement and processing specifications, resolution of Ti fleet, and manufacturing issues and approval of suppliers worldwide. In his time at Boeing, he has conducted studies of all conventional Ti alloy systems and almost all product forms. Boyer introduced several new technologies onto Boeing aircraft, which were ultimately used by other airframe manufacturers.

Victoria F. Chernow

California Institute of Technology, USA; email [email protected].

Chernow is a PhD candidate in Julia Greer’s group at the California Institute of Technology. She received her AB degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 2011, and MS degree in materials science from the California Institute of Technology in 2014. Chernow’s research interests include the fabrication and characterization of 3D nano- and microarchitected materials for photonic applications, including mechanically tunable photonic crystal structures.

Shane Collins

Incodema3D, LLC, USA; tel. 607-269-4390 x106; and email [email protected].

Collins is the director of program management at Incodema3D and leads their powder-bed fusion materials development. He has a BS degree from Purdue University Kranert School of Management. Collins is chairman of the ASTM F42 Materials and Processes Subcommittee, a member of the ASTM Committee on Standards, a member of the NYSERDA Additive Manufacturing Steering Committee, and guest editor of the journal Additive Manufacturing. His publications are on the powder-bed fusion of 17–4 stainless steel, nickel alloy 625, and nickel alloy 718.

James D. Cotton

Boeing Research and Technology, The Boeing Company, USA; email [email protected].

Cotton is the lead for titanium and steels research teams and a Boeing Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, where he has been researching advanced metallic airframe materials for 21 years. He earned a BSc degree in metallurgical engineering in 1983 from the University of Missouri–Rolla, a MSc degree in metallurgical engineering in 1986 from the Colorado School of Mines, and a PhD degree in materials science engineering in 1991 from the University of Florida. Previous employment includes the Kaiser Aluminum Center for Technology, the NASA-Glenn Research Center, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of ASM International.

George Crabtree

Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, Argonne National Laboratory, USA; tel. 630-252-5509; and email [email protected]; and Departments of Physics, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; tel. 630-252-5509; and email [email protected].

Crabtree is the director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a research partnership integrating discovery science, battery design, research prototyping, and manufacturing collaboration to enable next-generation, beyond lithium-ion batteries for transportation and the electricity grid. He holds a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Crabtree’s research interests include energy materials and phenomena, nanoscience, and strongly correlated electrons.

Julie O. Cross

Argonne National Laboratory, USA; tel. 630-252-0592; and email [email protected].

Cross joined the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Engineering Support Division in 2007, where she advises laboratory management on beamline and operational issues. She received her bachelor’s degree from Reed College in 1984. Following a research sojourn at Tektronix, she received her PhD degree in physics from the University of Washington in 1996, specializing in x-ray scattering and spectroscopy. She was a National Research Council Associate at the US Naval Research Laboratory, and a beamline scientist at the APS at Argonne National Laboratory.

Timothy J. Davis

Kionix, Inc., USA; tel. 607-257-1080 ×114; and email [email protected].

Davis is the executive vice president and chief technical officer for Kionix, Inc., a leading supplier of inertial sensing products. He co-founded Kionix in 1993, and has led the technical staff at Kionix through growth and the eventual acquisition by Rohm Co., Ltd. in 2009. He holds a BS degree in engineering science and mechanics from The Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

Ryan R. Dehoff

Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Dehoff is a senior researcher and thrust lead for metal additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He facilitates the development of additive manufacturing of components, utilizing various techniques, including electron-beam melting, laser metal deposition, and ultrasonic additive manufacturing. Dehoff’s projects include near-net-shape fabrication of titanium- and nickel-based superalloy components using low-cost feedstock materials and developing laser processing techniques for forming nanocomposite coatings and bulk components utilizing amorphous-based powder materials.

Shahyaan Desai

Mezmeriz, Inc., USA; tel. 607-342-7210; and email [email protected].

Desai is the chief technology officer of Mezmeriz, a MEMS mirror-based 3D scanning and projection company he founded in 2008. He holds a BS degree in materials science and a MS degree in fiber science/materials science from Cornell University.

Matthew Dickerson

Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Dickerson is a research scientist within the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the US Air Force Research Laboratory. He received his PhD degree in 2007 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dickerson’s research focuses on the synthesis, processing, and characterization of biological and biomimetic materials, including silk fibroin and other protein biopolymers.

Jennifer A. Dionne

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; tel. 650-736-2286; and email [email protected].

Dionne is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She received BS degrees in physics and electrical and systems engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003, and a PhD degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2009, under the supervision of Harry Atwater. Her postdoctoral research fellowship was at the University of California–Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with Paul Alivisatos. Dionne’s research develops new optical materials for applications ranging from high-efficiency solar energy conversion to bioimaging and manipulation. Her work has been recognized with a Sloan Fellowship, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the inaugural MRS Kavli Early Career Lectureship in Nanoscience. She was also recently named one of Technology Review’s TR35.

Ronit Freeman

Simpson Querrey Institute of BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, USA; email [email protected].

Freeman is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the laboratory of Samuel Stupp. She holds the EMBO Fellowship for postdoctoral research, and her research involves the development of DNA-peptide hybrids and their application as dynamic biomaterials for regenerative medicine. She received her PhD degree in chemistry in 2012 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Freeman’s PhD research focused on analytical and bioanalytical applications of quantum dots, DNA nanostructures, and the use of modified nanoparticles for probing intracellular processes.

Giulia Galli

Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA; and Argonne National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Galli is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations at the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She holds a PhD degree in physics from the International School of Advanced Studies in Italy. She is recipient of a DOE Award of Excellence in 2000 and of The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Science and Technology Award in 2004. Galli is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Gregory J. Galvin

Rheonix, Inc., USA; tel. 607-257-1242 ×110; and email [email protected].

Galvin is chairman and CEO of Rheonix, Inc. and interim CEO of Mezmeriz. He has a BS degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, as well as MS and PhD degrees in materials science and a MBA degree from Cornell University. Until 2013, he was the president and CEO of Kionix, Inc., a MEMS company he co-founded in 1993. Galvin was elected to the Cornell University Board of Trustees in 2011.

Yury Gogotsi

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, USA; email [email protected].

Gogotsi is a Distinguished University Professor and Trustee Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. His PhD degree is in physical chemistry from Kiev Polytechnic, Ukraine, DSc degree in materials engineering from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and Dr.h.c. from Paul Sabatier University, France. He is the founding director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and an associate editor of the journal ACS Nano. He works on nanostructured carbons and two-dimensional carbides for energy-related and biomedical applications. Gogotsi has co-authored two books, more than 400 journal papers, and obtained more than 50 patents. He has received numerous awards for his research and was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson-Reuters in 2014. He has been elected a Fellow of MRS, AAAS, ECS, and ACerS, as well as a member of the World Academy of Ceramics.

Julia R. Greer

California Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 626-395-4127; and email [email protected].

Greer has appointments in the Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Medical Engineering Departments in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She received her BS degree in chemical engineering with a minor in advanced music performance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997, and a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. A key focus of her research is the development of three-dimensional nanoarchitectures and designing experiments to assess their properties and deformation mechanisms. Greer’s work was recognized among the Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies by MIT’s Technology Review in 2015, and she was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014. She is a recipient of the 2014 Kavli Early Career Award in Nanoscience. Greer serves as an associate editor of Nano Letters and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

Chi-Sing Ho

Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Ho is a PhD degree student at Stanford University with Jennifer Dionne. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physics and applied mathematics at the University of California–Berkeley. She is working on separating chiral enantiomers using light-driven methods, including asymmetric absorption of superchiral light and selective optical trapping.

Vladan Janković

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Janković is a visiting scholar at Stanford University from Northrop Grumman, USA. He received his PhD degree from the University of California–Los Angeles Chemical Engineering Department in 2014 under advisement by Jane Chang. He investigated plasmonic/photoluminescent core/shell nanoparticle designs for light trapping in organic photovoltaics, photothermal therapy, and for nonlinear optics.

Martin Kaltenbrunner

Soft Matter Physics Department, Johannes Kepler University, Austria; email [email protected].

Kaltenbrunner is an assistant professor in the Soft Matter Physics Department at the Johannes Kepler University. He received his master’s and PhD degrees in physics from the Johannes Kepler University in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He then joined the Someya-Sekitani Lab for Organic Electronics at The University of Tokyo as postdoctoral researcher prior to his present position. Kaltenbrunner’s research interests include soft transducers, photovoltaics, lightning and thin-film transistors, flexible and stretchable electronics, and electronic skin.

Elton N. Kaufmann

Argonne National Laboratory, USA; tel. 630-252-3606; and email [email protected].

Kaufmann holds degrees in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the California Institute of Technology. After research and management roles at Bell Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined Argonne to direct its Superconductivity Pilot Center. He was Argonne’s Associate Chief Scientist until his retirement as an Argonne Emeritus Scientist in 2014. He is a former president of MRS and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Kaufmann has been editor of various publications for the materials research community, including Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Materials Science series and of the three-volume 2nd Edition of John Wiley & Sons’ reference work Characterization of Materials.

Elizabeth A. Kócs

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; email [email protected].

Kócs is the director of programming and outreach at the Energy Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also an instructor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor at the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at UIC, where she teaches cross-disciplinary courses in energy and urban sustainability. Kócs’ research interests center on urban energy and sustainability perspectives within an environmental behavior science framework. She serves as the editor-in-chief for the MRS Energy & Sustainability review journal.

William F. Koehl

Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA; and Argonne National Laboratory, USA; tel. 773-795-1440; and email [email protected].

Koehl is a postdoctoral appointee within the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, working jointly with the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He received a BA degree in physics from Harvard University and a PhD degree in physics from the University of California–Santa Barbara. Koehl’s current research focuses on quantum materials engineering and optoelectronic control of quantum states within a range of condensed-matter systems.

Kimberly Kurtis

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; email [email protected].

Kurtis is associate dean in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s (Georgia Tech) College of Engineering and a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In addition to her technical and educational service contributions to professional societies and government agencies, she has served in an editorial capacity to the journals Cement and Concrete Composites and ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Kurtis has held the leadership positions of chairman of the ACI Committee 236: Materials Science of Concrete and chair of ACerS Cements Division, central to advancing science-based research on cement-based materials.

Lonnie J. Love

Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and Energy and Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Love is a Corporate Fellow and group leader of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Manufacturing Systems Research Group. He is the project lead for the Big Area Additive Manufacturing program at ORNL focusing on large-scale, high-speed composite additive manufacturing. Other recent research efforts have focused on developing new lightweight low-cost robotic and hydraulic systems through additive manufacturing. He was ORNL’s 2014 Distinguished Research Scientist, 2009 Inventor of the Year. He has over 30 invention disclosures and patents, and 75 publications. Love serves on the scientific advisory board for NSF’s Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power.

Alan A. Luo

Materials Science Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA; tel. 614-292-5629; and email [email protected].

Luo is a professor of materials science and engineering and integrated systems engineering (manufacturing) at The Ohio State University (OSU). Prior to joining OSU in July 2013, he worked at General Motors Research and Development Center in Michigan for 15 years, and most recently, as a GM Technical Fellow. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Metals (ASM International) and the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE International). Luo holds 17 patents and has published more than 180 technical publications in advanced materials, manufacturing, and applications.

Subhash Mahajan

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of California–Davis, USA; tel. 530-752-5132; and email [email protected].

Mahajan is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials and Special Advisor to the Chancellor at the University of California–Davis. He received his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and graduate education at the University of California–Berkeley. His research focuses on two areas: structure–property relationships in functional materials and deformation behavior of solids. His honors include the John Bardeen and 2004 Educator Awards from TMS, the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award from ASM, the ASM Gold Medal in 2011, and the Albert Easton Distinguished Teacher Award in 2013. Mahajan is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS; a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering; and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Mark Miodownik

University College London, UK; email [email protected].

Miodownik is director of the Institute of Making and professor of materials and society at University College London, where he teaches and runs a research group. He received his PhD degree in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University in 1996, and since then, has published more than 100 research papers. His current research interests are smart materials, innovative manufacturing, and sensoaesthetic materials. He is the author of Stuff Matters, which won the Royal Society Winton Prize. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Michael Mohaghegh

Boeing Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company, USA; tel. 425-234-2688; and email [email protected].

Mohaghegh is a Boeing Technical Fellow in stress analysis and technology support. He received his BS and MS degrees in structural engineering from the University of California–Berkeley, and his PhD degree in engineering mechanics from the University of Washington. At The Boeing Company, he is the chief editor for the Boeing Design Principles manuals and is the developer and instructor for courses on stress analysis, finite element, fatigue, fracture, composites, airplane components, and repairs. He is also the director of the Modern Aircraft Structures Certificate Program at the University of Washington.

Lauren Montemayor

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Montemayor pursued her doctoral research under Julia R. Greer at the California Institute of Technology. The focus of her research was to create novel materials by exploiting material size effects and to characterize these materials using in situ nanomechanical experiments. She received her BS degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006, and her MS degree in space engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2011. Montemayor aims to pursue a career in research and development of novel engineering materials and is currently working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Gururaj Naik

Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Naik is a postdoctoral scholar in the Dionne group at Stanford University. He graduated with a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2013. His research interests include plasmonics and metamaterials and their applications in energy harvesting, nonreciprocal photonics, and quantum optics. He is a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship and the Outstanding Graduate Research Award from Purdue University. Naik is a member of MRS and serves as a reviewer for journals in optics and materials.

Rajesh Naik

711th Human Performance Wing, US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Naik is the chief scientist for the 711th Human Performance Wing at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He received his BSc degree in microbiology from the University of Bombay, India, MS degree from Duquesne University, and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the areas of bionanotechnology and biomimetics. He has published over 200 articles and holds 12 patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, International Society for Optics and Photonics, and the AFRL. Naik was awarded the John McLucas Award for Basic Research and the AFOSR Star Team Award. He is also an adjunct professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) and at Washington University in St. Louis (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science).

Tarun Narayan

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Narayan is a PhD student in the Dionne research group at Stanford University. He earned his BS degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in 2010, and MS degree in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is working to understand the thermodynamics of intercalation processes in nanomaterials at the single-particle level using the palladium/hydrogen system as a model.

Gregory B. Olson

QuesTek Innovations LLC, USA; and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, USA; tel. 847-491-2847; and email [email protected].

Olson is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, a co-founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC, and a leader and pioneer in the field of computational materials design. He received an ScD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a co-director of the CHiMaD Center for Hierarchical Materials Design and the director of the Steel Research Group, a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, industry-supported research program that focuses on applying scientific principles to design new classes of high-performance engineering alloys. Olson is a Fellow of TMS-AIME and ASM, a member of NAE, AAA&S, and a Foreign Associate of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science.

Robert L. Opila

Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware; tel. 302-831-3128; and email [email protected].

Since 2002, Opila has been with the Materials Science Department at the University of Delaware, where his research includes photovoltaics and thermoelectrics. He also has appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received a PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He then joined Bell Laboratories, where he studied the role of surfaces and interfaces in electronic materials and devices. Opila was named Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and promoted to technical supervisor there. He is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society and an editor of Applied Surface Science.

Sreekanth Pannala

SABIC Americas, USA; email [email protected].

Pannala is a research fellow at SABIC Americas and a computational scientist who works at the convergence of high-performance computing, applied mathematics, and domain specialties to find solutions for complex multiscale and interdisciplinary applications. He has a broad range of experience in simulating energy processes with emphasis on developing parallel algorithms and models for heterogeneous, chemically reacting flows from device- to microscale. Pannala served as a principal investigator on various US Department of Energy computational science projects and has over 100 publications in various areas of computational science and engineering.

William H. Peter

Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Peter is the deputy director of the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his BE degree from Vanderbilt University in 1996, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Tennessee in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He has been the principal investigator for over 20 R&D projects, including research in the areas of powder metallurgy of titanium powders, the fabrication of amorphous/nanocrystalline materials, and the processing of other lightweight alloys. In 2012, he was awarded three R&D 100 Magazine Awards, including additive manufacturing of robotics, development of a roll-mill technology, and the development of laser-fused NanoSHIELD coatings.

Robert E. Schafrik Sr.

Materials and Process Engineering, GE Aviation, USA; tel. 757-645-3677; and email [email protected] and [email protected].

Schafrik served as GM of Materials and Process Engineering at GE Aviation for 17 years before retiring in April 2014. He has a PhD degree in metallurgical engineering from The Ohio State University. He has served on the National Research Council as staff director of the National Materials Advisory Board and in the US Air Force for 20 years in a variety of R&D and advanced aerospace system acquisition capacities. He is a Fellow of ASM International and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Jonathan Scholl

Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Scholl is a doctoral candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Working under the supervision of Jennifer Dionne at Stanford, his research has explored the properties of plasmonic nanostructures with quantum-sized features and mechanisms of nanoparticle growth.

Hosung Seo

Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA; tel. 773-834-7392; and email [email protected].

Seo is a postdoctoral fellow in Giulia Galli’s group at the University of Chicago. He received his BS degree in physics from Seoul National University in Korea, and his PhD degree in physics from The University of Texas at Austin in the group of Alexander Demkov. Seo’s current research interests include first-principles theoretical search for new defect qubit candidates in functional materials that are technologically important and mature.

Anish Shivaram

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, USA; email [email protected].

Shivaram is a doctoral candidate at Washington State University, where he received his master’s degree in materials science and engineering in 2013. His research focus is on nanoscale surface modification and coatings of metallic implants and metal–ceramic composites for improving cell materials interactions in orthopedic and load-bearing applications.

Takao Someya

Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; tel. +81-3-5841-0411 and +81-3-5841-6756 (lab); email [email protected].

Someya has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Tokyo since 2009. He received a PhD degree in electrical engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1997. His current research interests include organic transistors, flexible electronics, plastic integrated circuits, large-area sensors, and plastic actuators. Someya is a global scholar of Princeton University and an IEEE/EDS Distinguished Lecturer since 2005. He was a member of MRS’s Board of Directors from 2009 to 2011.

Samuel I. Stupp

Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, and Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA; tel. 847-491-3002 (Evanston campus) and 312-503-0807 (Chicago campus); and email [email protected].

Stupp is Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. At Northwestern, he directs the Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology and the Energy Frontiers Research Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Spanish Royal Academy. Stupp is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and MRS.

Alan Taub

Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Michigan, USA; tel. 734-763-1024; and email [email protected].

Taub is a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan. He is conducting research in advanced materials and processing for structures, and is the chief technical officer of the lightweight metals manufacturing institute LIFT. He received his ScB degree in materials engineering from Brown University and PhD degree in applied physics from Harvard University. He was previously vice-president of General Motors Global Research and Development. He also worked at General Electric and Ford Motor Company, where he earned 26 patents and authored more than 60 papers. Taub was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

Lynn Trahey

Argonne National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Trahey is a scientist in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research Energy Innovation Hub, where she leads scientific integration efforts. As a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory since 2010, her research focuses on operando characterization of materials and interfaces for advanced secondary batteries. Trahey received the 2012 Northwestern University-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award for Energy Research.

Sahar Vahabzadeh

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, USA; email [email protected].

Vahabzadeh is a doctoral candidate in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. She received her BSc and MSc degrees from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. Her current research focuses on calcium phosphate bioceramics, bone tissue engineering, inkjet 3D printing, induction plasma sprayed coatings, in vitro cell culture, and in vivo studies. Vahabzadeh is the author of seven journal papers and one book chapter.

Thomas R. Watkins

Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; email [email protected].

Watkins is the leader of the Scattering and Thermophysics Group as well as a senior research staff member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He graduated with a BS degree in ceramic engineering from Alfred University, and MS and PhD degrees in ceramic science from The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include residual stresses, x-ray and neutron diffraction, and mechanical properties of materials.

Wei Xiong

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, USA; tel. 847-491-3689; and email [email protected].

Xiong is a research associate in materials science at Northwestern University working as a specialist in advanced materials design. He holds a PhD degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research covers a wide range of materials focusing on phase transformations and their impacts on structure–property relations. He serves on the ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Committee, TMS Alloy Phases Committee, and TMS ICME Committee. Xiong has received two Best Paper Awards from the journal CALPHAD and the TMS FMD Young Leader Professional Development Award.

Tomoyuki Yokota

Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; email [email protected].

Yokota is a project research associate in the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Tokyo. He received his master’s and PhD degrees in applied physics from The University of Tokyo in 2010 and 2013, respectively. His research interests include printed electronics, organic circuits, lightning and thin-film transistors, and flexible electronics.

Yang Zhao

Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University, USA; email [email protected].

Zhao is a postdoctoral scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University under the supervision of Jennifer A. Dionne. She received her PhD degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Andrea Alu in 2013. Her research interests cover theoretical, numerical, and experimental explorations on plasmonics, metamaterials, and nanoantennas, with a focus on novel nanophotonic phenomena and devices; and applying them to sense, image, and study biological interactions. Highlights of Zhao’s work include designing nano-optical antennas and metasurfaces for polarization filtering, conversion, chirality sensing, and optical tweezing.

Peng Zhou

Rheonix, Inc., USA; tel. 607-257-1242 ×149; and email [email protected].

Zhou is the Chief Technology Officer at Rheonix. Prior to this, he was a senior research investigator for Discovery Technology with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in New Jersey, and was with Sepracor Inc. of Massachusetts. He received PhD and MA degrees, both in chemistry, from Columbia University and earned a BS degree in chemistry from Jilin University, China.