Members of the Materials Research Society (MRS) have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2020) and seven directors to join the 2019 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, 2018.
2019 MRS OFFICERS
President
Michael R. Fitzsimmons
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee
Immediate Past President
Sean J. Hearne
Sandia National Laboratories
Vice President (President-Elect)
* Matt Copel
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Secretary
Eric A. Stach
University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer
David J. Parrillo
The Dow Chemical Company
Executive Director
Todd M. Osman
Materials Research Society
2019 MRS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
* Monica Jung de Andrade (2021)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Griselda Bonilla (2020)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Li-Chyong Chen (2019)
National Taiwan University
Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines (2019)
Johns Hopkins University
* Sharon C. Glotzer (2021)
University of Michigan
Claudia Gutiérrez-Wing (2019)
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares
* Sarah Heilshorn (2021)
Stanford University
* Frances Houle (2021)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Sergei V. Kalinin (2021)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Kisuk Kang (2021)
Seoul National University
Lincoln J. Lauhon (2019)
Northwestern University
Paul C. McIntyre (2020)
Stanford University
Christopher A. Schuh (2020)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rachel A. Segalman (2020)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Molly M. Stevens (2019)
Imperial College London
Ehrenfried Zschech (2020)
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems
* Yusheng Zhao (2021)
Southern University of Science and Technology
*Newly elected.
