Members of the Materials Research Society (MRS) have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2021), a secretary, and five directors to join the 2020 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 activities of the society, including its meetings, publications, interactions with government agencies, and cooperative efforts with other professional societies.
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 six Board Committees: External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight and Audit, and Planning. Each committee is responsible for formulating policy and strategy issues in their specific areas for full Board consideration.
2020 MRS OFFICERS
President
Matt Copel
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Immediate Past President
Michael R. Fitzsimmons
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee
Vice President (President-Elect)
* Cherie R. Kagan
University of Pennsylvania
Secretary
* Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines
Johns Hopkins University
Treasurer
Shenda Baker
Synedgen Inc.
Executive Director
Todd M. Osman
Materials Research Society
* Newly elected.
2020 MRS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Griselda Bonilla (2020)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
* Leonard J. Brillson (2023)
The Ohio State University
* Kristen H. Brosnan (2023)
GE Global Research
* Coray M. Colina (2023)
University of Florida
* Catherine Dubourdieu (2023)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin/Freie Universität Berlin
Sarah Heilshorn (2021)
Stanford University
Frances A. Houle (2021)
Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
MÔnica Jung de Andrade (2021)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Alan G. MacDiarmid
NanoTech Institute
Sergei V. Kalinin (2021)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Kisuk Kang (2021)
Seoul National University
Paul C. McIntyre (2020)
Stanford University
**Linda S. Schadler (2021)
The University of Vermont
Christopher A. Schuh (2020)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rachel A. Segalman (2020)
University of California, Santa Barbara
* Ting Xu (2023)
University of California, Berkeley
Yusheng Zhao (2021)
Southern University of Science and Technology
Ehrenfried Zschech (2020)Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems
* Newly elected.
** Appointed June 2019.
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, 2019.
