Ju Li

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; tel. 617-253-0166; and email liju@mit.edu.

Li is the BEA Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Using atomistic modeling and in situ experimental observations, his group investigated mechanical, electrochemical, and transport behaviors of materials, often under extreme stress, temperatures, and radiation environments, as well as novel means of energy storage and conversion. Ju was a winner of the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2006 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award, and the 2007 TR35 Award from Technology Review.

Zhiwei Shan

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; tel. +86-13659185619; and email zhiweishan@gmail.com.

Shan is currently the Chang Jiang Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his BS from Jilin University, MS from Institute of Metal Research, CAS and PhD degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Following his postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he joined Hysitron Inc. for four years. His research interests focus on applying and developing unique quantitative in situ electron microscopy techniques and exploring and revealing the novel properties of micronanoscaled materials.

Evan Ma

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; tel. 410-516-8601; and email ema@jhu.edu.

Ma is currently a professor of materials science and engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Tsinghua University and Caltech and postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an assistant and associate professor at Louisiana State University, and joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1998. His current research interests include metallic glasses, chalcogenide alloys for memory applications, nanocrystalline metals, in situ TEM of small-volume materials, and elastic strain engineering of nanostructured metals and functional materials. Ma is a Fellow of ASM and APS.

Stephen W. Bedell

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA; tel. 914-945-2232; and email bedells@us.ibm.com.

Bedell received his BS and PhD degrees in physics from the State University of New York at Albany. He originally served as manager of research and development for Silicon Genesis Corporation in Campbell, Calif. He then joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2000 as a research staff member. His interests include strained-layer physics, crystal defects, ion-solid interactions, and advanced semiconductor materials. Bedell has published over 80 articles and has over 150 issued or pending patents. He has received the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and was named IBM Master Inventor in 2012.

Long-Qing Chen

Millennium Science Complex, Materials Research Institute, University Park, PA, USA; tel. 814- 863-8101; and email lqc3@psu.edu.

Chen is a distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State University. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Zhejiang University, Stony Brook University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, all in materials science and engineering. Chen has interests in computational materials science of phase transformations and microstructure evolution using the phase-field method. He has received the TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (2011), and he is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of APS, ASM, and MRS.

Ji Feng

International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China; email jfeng11@pku.edu.cn.

Feng earned his PhD degree in theoretical chemistry from Cornell University in 2007. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty of the School of Physics at Peking University in 2011, where he is an associate professor in the International Center for Quantum Materials. Feng is interested in electronic structure theory, and his research focuses on the effect of slowly varying fields and inhomogeneous order (such as strain) on the quantum behavior of electrons.

Craig J. Fennie

School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA; email fennie@cornell.edu.

Fennie is currently an assistant professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. He received his BEE and MSEE degrees from Villanova University, and his PhD in theoretical condensed-matter physics from Rutgers University in 2006. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Nicholas Metropolis Fellowship from Argonne National Laboratory. Since June 2008, he has been at Cornell University, focusing on the application of first-principles methods to understand and discover new structurally and chemically complex oxides, with a particular interest in ferroelectric, multiferroic, and related multifunctional materials-by-design. He is the recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the ARO, the 2011 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the NSF, the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.

Venkatraman Gopalan

Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, USA; email vgopalan@psu.edu.

Gopalan received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in 1995. He became a full professor in materials science and engineering at Penn State in 2008. His interests are in symmetry, complex oxides, nonlinear optics, and devices. He has received the NSF Career Award, and the Robert R. Coble and Richard M. Fulrath Awards, both from the American Ceramics Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

James Hone

Department of Electronic Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA; email jh2228@columbia.edu.

Hone is currently a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University. He received his BS degree in physics from Yale University, and MS and PhD degrees in experimental condensed-matter physics from UC Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and Caltech, where he was a Millikan Fellow. He joined the Columbia faculty in 2003. His current research interests include mechanical properties, synthesis, and applications of graphene and other 2D materials; nanoelectromechanical devices; and nano-biology.

Martin Hÿtch

CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France; email martin.hytch@cemes.fr.

Hÿtch received his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 1991 before moving to France to work for the CNRS, first in Paris and then in Toulouse, where he heads the nanomaterials group. His research focuses on the development of quantitative electron microscopy techniques for materials science applications. He is the inventor of geometric phase analysis (GPA) and dark-field electron holography (DFEH). In 2008, he received the European Microscopy Award (FEI-EMA), and he has published more than 100 papers and given over 30 invited talks at international conferences.

Ali Khakifirooz

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA; tel. 408-205-6338; and e-mail khaki@us.ibm.com.

Khakifirooz received BS and MS degrees from the University of Tehran, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, all in electrical engineering. Since joining IBM Research in 2008, he has been involved in the development of 14-nm and 10-nm node technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 75 technical papers and holds more than 70 issued US patents. Khakifirooz is a Senior Member of IEEE, an IBM Master Inventor, and a recipient of 71 IBM Invention Plateau Awards.

Andrew Minor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA; tel. 510-495-2749; and email aminor@berkeley.edu.

Minor received a BA degree from Yale University and his MS and PhD degrees from U.C. Berkeley. Currently, he is an associate professor at U.C. Berkeley in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He also holds a joint appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as the Deputy Director for Science in the Materials Science Division and Deputy Director of the National Center for Electron Microscopy. He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications on topics such as nanomechanics, characterization of soft materials, and in situ TEM technique development. In 2012, he was awarded the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS.

David A. Muller

School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA; tel. 607-255-4065; and email dm24@cornell.edu.

Muller is a professor of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University and co-director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. His current research interests include renewable energy materials, atomic resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy, and the atomic-scale control of materials to create non-bulk phases. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and received a PhD from Cornell University and worked as a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Microscopy Society of America and a Burton Medalist.

Xiaoqing Pan

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA; email panx@umich.edu.

Pan is the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his BS and MS degrees in physics from Nanjing University in China and his PhD degree in physics from the University of Saarland in Germany. Pan’s current research centers on understanding the atomic-scale structure-property relationships of advanced functional materials, including oxide electronics, nanostructured ferroelectrics and multiferroics, battery materials, and catalysts. He received a CAREER Award from NSF and the Chinese NSFC’s Outstanding Young Investigator Award. He was awarded and named Cheung-Kong Distinguished Visiting Chair Professorship and selected to China’s 1000 Talent Program.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; email rameshr@ornl.gov.

Ramesh is the deputy director of Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. He returned to Berkeley in 2004 and is currently the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor in Materials Science and Physics. Prior to that, he was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. He has received numerous awards, including the Materials Research Society David Turnbull Lectureship Award (2007) and the 2010 APS McGroddy New Materials Prize. In 2009, he was elected Fellow of MRS, and in 2011, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Devendra Sadana

T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM, New York, USA; tel. 914-945-2423; and email dksadana@us.ibm.com.

Sadana obtained his PhD degree from IIT, New Delhi in 1975. He has worked at the University of Oxford, England, UC, Berkeley, MCNC Carolina, and Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, Calif. during 1975–1987 in various capacities. He joined IBM Research in 1987, where he is currently a senior staff/manager. His research work covers ion implantation, advanced epitaxial growth, SOI materials, mainstream and flexible photovoltaics, and CMOS technology in Si and III–Vs. He has published over 200 papers in journals/conference proceedings. He is a co-inventor of over 300 issued/submitted patents. He is a Fellow of SPIE.

Darrell G. Schlom

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, USA; email schlom@cornell.edu.

Schlom is the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. He received his BS degree from the California Institute of Technology, and his MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at IBM’s research lab in Zurich, Switzerland, Schlom was on the faculty at Penn State University for 16 years. His research interests involve the growth and characterization of oxide thin films by MBE, including their integration with semiconductors. Schlom has published more than 400 papers and has eight patents. He has been awarded invention achievement awards by IBM and SRC; young investigator awards by ONR, NSF, and the American Association for Crystal Growth; an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship; and the MRS Medal. In addition, Schlom is a Fellow of APS and MRS.

Reinhard Uecker

Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Germany; tel. +49 30 63923021; and email reinhard.uecker@ikz-berlin.de.

Uecker is the leader of the oxides/fluorides group of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth in Berlin, Germany. He received his Diploma from Humboldt University of Berlin and his PhD degree from the University of Hannover. He has worked in the field of crystal growth for over 30 years, specializing in the growth and characterization of oxide and fluoride single crystals from the melt. He spent 15 years growing crystals at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and continued at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth since its foundation in 1992. Uecker is the author and co-author of more than 100 papers and holds five patents.

Bilge Yildiz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Science and Engineering Department, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; email byildiz@mit.edu.

Yildiz is an associate professor in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she leads the Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces. She received her PhD degree at MIT in 2003 and her BSc degree from Hacettepe University in Turkey in 1999. Her research interests include molecular-level studies of oxygen reduction kinetics on oxide surfaces at elevated temperatures, under stress and in reactive gases, by combining in situ surface sensitive experiments with first-principles calculations and novel atomistic simulations. She was the recipient of the Charles Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society in 2012, and an NSF CAREER Award in 2011.

Dapeng Yu

State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing China; email yudp@pku.edu.cn.

Yu is currently a professor of condensed-matter physics at the School of Physics at Peking University. He received his BS degree in materials science from East-China University, Shanghai, his MS degree at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his PhD degree in materials physics from Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. He joined the faculty in the physics department at Peking University in 1995. His current research interests include nanostructures and low-dimensional physics.