On January 1, James J. De Yoreo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society for 2011, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2010. He succeeded David S. Ginley (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), who now serves MRS as immediate past president.
In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Bruce M. Clemens (Stanford University) was elected vice president/president-elect and Sean J. Hearne (Sandia National Laboratories) was elected for a two-year term as MRS secretary. Michael Fitzsimmons (Los Alamos National Laboratory) was reappointed by the Board of Directors to serve as MRS treasurer.
The newly elected members to the MRS board of directors are Ana Claudia Arias, Palo Alto Research Center; Duane B. Dimos, Sandia National Laboratories; Oliver Kraft, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Institute fur Materialforschung; Hideki Matsumura, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST); and Susan E. Trolier-McKinstry, Pennsylvania State University. They join continuing Board of Directors Wade Adams, Rice University; Tia Benson Tolle, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory; Flemming Besenbacher, University of Aarhus; Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organi-zation; J. Murray Gibson, Argonne National Laboratory; Christine A. Orme, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Michael F. Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Takao Someya, the University of Tokyo; and Pierre Wiltzius,University of California at Santa Barbara.
James J. De Yoreo is interum director for Research at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His research has spanned a wide range of materials-related disciplines. Current activities focus on self- and directed assembly in biomolecular and biomineral systems. De Yoreo received his PhD degree in physics from Cornell University in 1985. Following postdoctoral work at Princeton University, he became a member of the technical staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1989, where he held numerous positions including group leader for Biophysical and Interfacial Sciences and deputy director of the Laboratory Science and Technology Office. He joined the Molecular Foundry in 2007. He is a recipient of an R&D 100 Award and the LLNL Science and Technology Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
For MRS, De Yoreo was a member of the Strategic Program Planning Subcommittee and the Public Outreach Committee. Within the Public Outreach Committee, he chaired the Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) Subcommittee, which served as the interface between MRS and major science museums in executing an NSF program in informal science education. De Yoreo was a 2004 Spring Meeting Chair and has been a symposium organizer for numerous meetings. He has served on the Board of Directors where he chaired the External Relations Committee, and most recently served as vice president/president-elect.
Bruce M. Clemens is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests are the synthesis, structure, and properties of thin film and nanostructured materials. He received his BS degree in engineering-physics from Colorado School of Mines in 1978, and his MS and PhD degrees in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1979 and 1983, respectively. From 1983 to 1988 he was a Senior Research Scientist and then Staff Scientist in the Physics Department at General Motors Research Laboratory. In 1988 he was an Exchange Scientist at Hughes Research Laboratory and a Visiting Professor at Caltech. In 1989 he joined the faculty at Stanford. He served as department chair from 2000 to 2005, and is a member of the Photon Sciences Faculty of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and is a professor by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford. Clemens is the author of nearly 200 scientific papers and two patents. He was the recipient of the 1995 ASM Silver Medal for Research, and is a Distinguished Achievement Medalist from Colorado School of Mines for 2009. He serves on the technical advisory boards and as consultant for companies that span the range from large multinationals to small start-ups. He has been an active member of MRS since 1984 and has served four times as MRS Symposium Organizer and was a Meeting Chair of the 2001 Fall Meeting. He served on the MRS Board of Directors from 2002 to 2005.
Sean J. Hearne is currently Science Staff Manager at the Department of Energy’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies located at Sandia National Laboratories. His research has primarily focused on the sources of intrinsic stress creation and evolution during thin-film deposition and has been well cited in the area of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition growth of GaN and in the fundamental mechanisms inducing stress during Volmer–Weber thin-film growth. This work led him into other research topics including micro-/nano-fabrication and nano-enabled devices for electrical energy storage. Hearne’s current interests focus on enabling new programs to develop novel in situ techniques for the study of high energy and power density systems. Hearne received his PhD degree in solid-state physics from Arizona State University in 2000. He worked from 2000 to 2001 at Intel Corporation, where he was a Senior Process Engineer in the Components Research Group in Hillsboro, Oregon. Since 2001, Hearne has worked for Sandia National Laboratories. Hearne has been active in the MRS community since attending his first MRS Meeting in 1995 as a graduate student. Over the years, he has presented, organized symposia, and served on a number of committees and task forces. Since 2007, he has chaired the MRS Information Services Committee which oversees all of the MRS print and online publications, including the MRS Bulletin, Journal of Materials Research, and the MRS Symposium Proceedings.
Michael Fitzsimmons is a research scientist in the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is responsible for operating the user program for the polarized neutron reflectometer/diffractometer Asterix, and pursues research in nanostructured magnetic materials using neutron and x-ray scattering as a Basic Energy Sciences principal investigator. He received a BA degree in physics from Reed College (1982) and a PhD degree from Cornell University (1988) in materials science and engineering. After graduation, he pursued studies of nanostructured materials with synchrotron radiation in the group of J. Peisl, Ludwig Maximilians Universität in München as a Fulbright junior research fellow. In 1990, Fitzsimmons joined Los Alamos. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the Los Alamos Lab Director’s distinguished performance award and the LANSCE Director’s Award. He has authored more than 100 papers and collaborates with more than 200 scientists in fields of hard and soft matter, and x-ray and neutron scattering. Fitzsimmons has given numerous invited lectures including neutron scattering tutorials. He co-authored a book chapter/tutorial on polarized neutron reflectometry and recently organized a neutron scattering school focused on magnetic materials and nanomagnetism. Fitzsimmons was a meeting chair for the 2008 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting.
David S. Ginley is a research fellow and group manager of the Process Technology and Advanced Concepts group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. His work focuses on the basic science and development of new technology related to the conversion and storage of solar energy. Key areas of focus are organic-based solar cells, atmospheric processing and direct-write materials, combinatorial materials development, and the incorporation of nanotechnology in energy-related generation, storage, and conversion technologies. Materials activities are specific to developing new materials and hybrid composite materials, including transparent conducting oxides, ferroelectric materials, and hybrid structures at the nanoscale of organic/organic or organic/inorganic systems. Ginley received a PhD degree in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published more than 320 papers, received 28 patents, and been honored with a Department of Energy Award for Sustained Research in Superconducting Materials, five R&D 100 awards, and three Federal Laboratory Consortium technology transfer awards. He is an adjunct professor of physics at Colorado University—Boulder, and a research professor of materials science at the Colorado School of Mines.
For MRS, Ginley has served as secretary, treasurer, and chair of the Board of Directors’ Operational Oversight Committee. He was a Meeting Chair for the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting and has organized numerous symposia. He is a Principle Editor for the Journal of Materials Research. He also served on the MRS Bulletin Energy Project Organizing Committee for the magazine’s special issue on “Harnessing Materials for Energy” (April 2008). Ginley served as MRS vice president/president-elect in 2009 and president in 2010.
