Members of the Materials Rsearch Society (MRS) have elected the 2018 vice president (who will serve as president in 2019) and five directors to join the 2018 MRS Board of Directors. The Board is composed of four elected officers and up to 18 board members, 15 of whom are elected by the membership. A fifth officer (treasurer) is appointed yearly.
The MRS Board of Directors is the highest governing body of MRS, responsible for establishing policy, monitoring progress of the Society toward its long-term goals, and setting the strategic directions for the major activities of the Society, including its meetings, publications, interactions with government agencies, and cooperative efforts with other professional societies throughout the world.
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. All members of the Board, except the president, serve on one of seven Board Committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational and Strategic Oversight, and Planning.
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 31, 2017.
2018 MRS Officers
President
Sean J. Hearne
Sandia National Laboratories
Immediate Past President
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
The Pennsylvania State University
Vice President (President-Elect)
* Michael Fitzsimmons
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee
Secretary
Eric A. Stach
University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer
David J. Parrillo
The Dow Chemical Company
Executive Director
Todd M. Osman
Materials Research Society
2018 MRS board of directors
* Griselda Bonilla (2020)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Li-Chyong Chen (2019)
National Taiwan University
Matt Copel (2018)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Paul S. Drzaic (2018)
Apple, Inc.
Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines (2019)
Johns Hopkins University
Yury Gogotsi (2018)
Drexel University
Claudia E. Gutiérrez-Wing (2019)
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares
Young-Chang Joo (2018)
Seoul National University
Lincoln J. Lauhon (2019)
Northwestern University
* Paul McIntyre (2020)
Stanford University
* Christopher A. Schuh (2020)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Rachel Segalman (2020)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Magaly Spector (2018)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Molly M. Stevens (2019)
Imperial College London
* Ehrenfried Zschech (2020)
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems
*Newly elected.
