Members of the Materials Research Society (MRS) have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2017) and five directors to join the 2016 MRS Board of Directors. In addition, the MRS Board of Directors has appointed the next MRS Treasurer. The Board is composed of the officers and 12 to 21 directors, established by Board resolution.
The officers of the Society are the president (who serves as chair of the Board), the vice president (who is also the president-elect), the secretary, the treasurer (a position appointed by the Board of Directors), and the immediate past president. Terms of office expire at the end of the year indicated in parentheses. The asterisk (*) designates those who are newly elected. The annual election ended August 24, 2015.
The Board of Directors is organized into the following governing committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight, and Planning. Chairs and Members of the committees are either designated by policy or are appointed by the president.
2016 MRS Officers
President
Kristi S. Anseth
University of Colorado Boulder
Immediate Past President
Oliver Kraft
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Vice President (President-Elect)
* Susan Trolier-McKinstry
The Pennsylvania State University
Secretary
Sean J. Hearne
Sandia National Laboratories
Treasurer
* David J. Parrillo
The Dow Chemical Company
Executive Director
Todd M. Osman
Materials Research Society
2016 Board of Directors
Charles T. Black (2017)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Alexandra Boltasseva (2016)
Purdue University
C. Jeffrey Brinker (2016)
Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico
* Matthew Copel (2018)
IBM
* Paul S. Drzaic (2018)
Apple, Inc.
* Yury Gogotsi (2018)
Drexel University
Hideo Hosono (2016)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
* Young-Chang Joo (2018)
Seoul National University
Karen L. Kavanagh (2017)
Simon Fraser University
Kornelius Nielsch (2016)
Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research
Christine Ortiz (2017)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sabrina Sartori (2017)
University of Oslo
* Magaly Spector (2018)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Loucas Tsakalakos (2016)
General Electric–Global Research Center
Anke Weidenkaff (2017)
University of Stuttgart
