Department Chair and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
3062B H.H. Dow
phone: 734.763.2445
About
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research focuses on light-weight structural materials, radiation-damage tolerant materials, high strength and high electrical conductivity materials and other metal-based multiphase and composite materials, with emphasis on designing materials with enhanced functionality through understanding and control of interface and defect phenomena.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE:
Nov’96 – May ‘14 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
LANL Fellow / Scientist Level 5 and Director, Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC): Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes
AWARDS AND SERVICE:
- Fellow, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2018
- Brimacombe Medalist, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2017
- Fellow, Materials Research Society (MRS), Class of 2016
- 2016 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division.
- Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, class of 2011
- Fellow, American Society of Metals (ASM), International: class of 2011
- 2011 DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST/ENGINEER AWARD, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division
- 2008 LANL Fellows’ Prize for outstanding research in nanomechanics
- 2013 LANL Distinguished Postdoctoral Mentor award
- Selected by National Academy of Engineering for Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2011
- Selected for the 11th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative conference, Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies: Building a Healthier and Safer Planet, (November 2013)
- Materials Research Society (MRS):
- Chair, Editorial Board, MRS Bulletin, 2019 - current
- Meeting Chair, Fall 2012
- Symposium Chair: Spring Meeting 2004, Spring Meeting 2006, Fall Meeting 2006, Fall Meeting 2008, Spring Meeting 2010
- MRS Bulletin: 2009 Volume Organizer; Editorial Board (current)
- The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS):
- Elected Chair (2007-2009), vice-chair (2005-2007): Nanomechanical Material Behavior technical committee
- Symposium co-Chair: TMS Annual Meetings: 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014
- Tutorial co-organizer, Nanomechanical Characterization, TMS AM-2008
- Program Grid Chair for TMS Annual Meeting 2011
- Symposium Chair, PRICM-8, 2013
- Meeting Chair, DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences Contractors’ Meeting on Mechanical Behavior and Radiation Effects, April 2008
- Guest edited 5 special issues in different journals in materials science and engineering
- Editor, Materials Research Letters.
- Co-organizer and instructor, Summer School, 20-25th June 2010, Atomic-level Response of Materials to Irradiation, Santa Fe, NM
