Members of the Materials Research Society have elected a Vice President (who will serve as President in 2014) and five directors to join the 2013 MRS Board of Directors. 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 October 9, 2012.
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.
2013 MRS Officers
President
Orlando Auciello
University of Texas at Dallas
Immediate Past President
Bruce M. Clemens
Stanford University
Vice President (President-Elect)
*Tia Benson Tolle
The Boeing Company
Secretary
Sean J. Hearne
Sandia National Laboratories
Treasurer
Michael R. Fitzsimmons
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2013 Board of Directors
Ana Claudia Arias (2013)
University of California–Berkeley
Shenda M. Baker (2014)
Synedgen, Inc.
*David Cahen (2015)
Weizmann Institute of Science
Duane B. Dimos (2013)
Sandia National Laboratories
Chang-Beom Eom (2014)
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eric Garfunkel (2014)
Rutgers University
*Sossina M. Haile (2015)
California Institute of Technology
*Andrea M. Hodge (2015)
University of Southern California
Oliver Kraft (2013)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hideki Matsumura (2013)
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
*Fiona C. Meldrum (2015)
University of Leeds
*Eric A. Stach (2015)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Stephen K. Streiffer (2014)
Argonne National Laboratory
Susan E. Trolier-McKinstry (2013)
The Pennsylvania State University
