John L. Sarrao

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; email sarrao@lanl.gov.

Sarrao is the associate laboratory director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He received his PhD degree in physics from the University of California–Los Angeles, based on thesis work performed at LANL. His primary research interest focuses on the synthesis and characterization of correlated electron systems, especially actinide materials. Sarrao received the US Department of Energy’s E.O. Lawrence Award and the LANL Fellows Prize for Research, in part, for his discovery of the first plutonium superconductor, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society (APS), and LANL.

George W. Crabtree

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, and University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; email crabtree@anl.gov.

Crabtree is a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a professor of physics, electrical, and mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, an Energy Innovation Hub. He received his BS degree in science engineering from Northwestern University, his MS degree in physics from the University of Washington, and his PhD degree in solid-state physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Crabtree has worked on the electronic behavior of transition metal, organic, heavy fermion, and high-temperature superconducting compounds, and on materials for energy conversion.

Ali C. Basaran

Department of Physics and Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California, San Diego, USA; tel. 858-534-2778; and email abasaran@physics.ucsd.edu.

Basaran is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California–San Diego, and currently is appointed to Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey, as an assistant professor. He received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California–San Diego. His research interests include exchange bias, ferromagnetic/superconducting hybrids, and the search for new superconducting materials. Basaran received the 2014 American Physical Society Topical Group on Magnetism and Its Applications Student Travel Award.

Axel Hoffmann

Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA; tel. 630-252-5469; and email hoffmann@anl.gov.

Hoffmann is the group leader of the Magnetic Films Group at the Argonne National Laboratory, which he joined in 2001. He obtained his PhD degree in physics from the University of California–San Diego in 1999, and his diploma in physics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1994. Hoffmann’s research interests encompass basic properties of magnetic heterostructures, spin-transport, and magnetization dynamics in novel geometries. In 2011, the IEEE Magnetics Society selected him as a Distinguished Lecturer, and in 2015, he was awarded “Outstanding Researcher” by the Prairie Section of the American Vacuum Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and IEEE.

J. Samuel Jiang

Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA; tel. 630-252-7738; and email jiang@anl.gov.

Jiang is a materials scientist in the Magnetic Films Group at Argonne National Laboratory, which he joined in 1996. He obtained his BS degree in physics from Zhejiang University, China, in 1989, and his PhD degree in physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1996. His research interests include nanostructured magnetic materials and spintronics devices. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received the University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award in 2003. Jiang has authored more than 100 publications.

Jennifer A. Lewis

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA; tel. 617-496-0233; and email jalewis@seas.harvard.edu.

Lewis is the Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University since 2013. Her research focuses on developing functional and biological materials for 3D printing of electronics and living tissues. She has written more than 140 papers and is a co-inventor on 27 awarded and pending patents. Lewis has received numerous awards, including the MRS Medal in 2012.

Judith MacManus-Driscoll

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK; tel. +44 (0) 1223 334468; and email jld35@cam.ac.uk.

MacManus-Driscoll is a professor in materials science at the University of Cambridge, and is a long-term visiting staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research includes oxide thin films for electronics and energy. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and the Materials Research Society. She is founding editor of the journal APL Materials from the American Institute of Physics. MacManus-Driscoll has published over 300 papers and a number of patents that have been licensed by industry.

Jordan R. Raney

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA; tel. 651-247-8918; and email raney@seas.harvard.edu.

Raney is a postdoctoral Fellow in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. His research focuses on the mechanics and fabrication of novel material architectures, including hierarchical, heterogeneous, fibrous, and soft systems. Raney received his PhD degree in materials science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the recipient of a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and the Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Nanotechnology for his dissertation.

Gregory S. Rohrer

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; tel. 412-268-2696; and email gr20@andrew.cmu.edu.

Rohrer is the W.W. Mullins Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of over 250 publications and a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society. Selected awards include the Roland B. Snow Award, the Ross Coffin Purdy Award, the Richard M. Fulrath Award, the Robert B. Sosman Award, and the W. David Kingery Award, all from The American Ceramic Society. Rohrer chaired the University Materials Council in 2011.

Anthony D. Rollett

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; tel. 412-268-3177; and email rollett@andrew.cmu.edu.

Rollett has been a professor of materials science and engineering at Carnegie Mellon University since 1995, and served as department head from 1995 to 2000. Previously, he worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include texture, anisotropy, strength of materials, constitutive relations, microstructure, grain growth, recrystallization, additive manufacturing, formability, and stereology. He became a Fellow of TMS in 2011 and received the Cyril Stanley Smith Award in 2014. Rollett is the chair of the International Scientific Committee for the International Conference on Texture.

Ivan K. Schuller

Physics Department and Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California, San Diego, USA; tel. 858-534-2540; and email ischuller@ucsd.edu.

Schuller is in the Physics Department and is the director of the Center for Advanced Nanoscience at the University of California–San Diego. His research interests focus on the properties of nanostructured, organic, magnetic, and superconducting materials. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Chilean, Colombian, Spanish, and Belgian Academies of Science. Schuller’s awards include the MRS Medal, Department of Energy Lawrence Award, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2015, the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award in 2015, and a US Department of Defense for National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship.

Robert M. Suter

Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; email suter@andrew.cmu.edu.

Suter is a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He also runs the Physics Department’s x-ray scattering laboratory, where measurements are carried out on a wide variety of materials systems, including thin solid and fluid films and biologically relevant lipid membranes. He obtained his PhD degree in physics at Clark University. Currently, his group is developing a high-energy x-ray diffraction microscope in collaboration with scientists at Sector 1 of the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron.

Ady Suwardi

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK; email as2334@cam.ac.uk.

Suwardi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Judith Driscoll and co-supervised by Yao Kui from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore. He received his BEng degree in 2012 from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Suwardi’s current research focuses on the formation mechanism of vertical nanocomposite thin films as well as their functional properties.

Javier E. Villegas

Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, France; tel. (33) 1 69 41 58 56; and email javier.villegas@thalesgroup.com.

Villegas is a CNRS research associate currently leading a research group on nanostructured superconductors and superconductor/ferroic hybrids at the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales. He is a condensed-matter experimentalist in the fields of superconductivity, magnetism, complex oxides, and nanotechnology. He was formerly a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California–San Diego, and a doctoral student and assistant professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Villegas holds a grant from the European Research Council.

Haiyan Wang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University; tel. 979-845-5082; and email wangh@ece.tamu.edu.

Wang is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. She received her PhD degree from North Carolina State University in 2002. Wang is a Fellow of ACerS and ASM International. Her major awards include TAMEST O’Donnell Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, NSF Career Award, and other early career awards. She has published over 320 journal articles and eight patents in the area of thin films and nanomaterials.