A superalloy,or high-performance alloy,is an alloy with the ability to operate at a high fraction of its melting point. Key characteristics of a superalloy include mechanical strength,thermal creep deformation resistance,surface stability,and corrosion and oxidation resistance.
George David William Smith FRS,FIMMM,FInstP,FRSC,CEng is a materials scientist with special interest in the study of the microstructure,composition and properties of engineering materials at the atomic level. He invented,together with Alfred Cerezo and Terry Godfrey,the Atom-Probe Tomograph in 1988.
Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist and the executive chairman of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. He assumed this position on January 1,2019. He was chairman,president,and chief executive officer of the company from 2000 to December 31,2018,and president and a chief executive officer from 1999 to 2000. Mehrabian held various senior executive positions at Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated (ATI) starting in July 1997 before the spin-off of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated in November 1999. Previously he was president of Carnegie Mellon University from 1990 to 1997. He has served on the board of directors of several public companies,including Mellon Financial Corporation and its successor,Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (1994–2011) and PPG Industries,Inc. (1992–2014).
Martin Stratmann is a German electrochemist and materials scientist. He is one of the directors at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf since 2000,and heads its department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering.
Alejandro Strachan is a scientist in the field of computational materials and the Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue University,he was a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Nikhil Gupta is a materials scientist,researcher,and professor based in Brooklyn,New York. Gupta is a professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering department of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He is an elected Fellow of ASM International and the American Society for Composites. He is one of the leading researchers on lightweight foams and has extensively worked on hollow particle filled composite materials called syntactic foams. Gupta developed a new functionally graded syntactic foam material and a method to create multifunctional syntactic foams. His team has also created an ultralight magnesium alloy syntactic foam that is able to float on water. In recent years,his work has focused on digital manufacturing methods for composite materials and manufacturing cybersecurity.
Tresa M. Pollock is ALCOA Distinguished Professor of Materials at the Department of Materials,University of California,Santa Barbara. Pollock is internationally recognised in the development of new materials systems,including alloys,3D characterisation of structure and properties,and development of integrated computation materials engineering.
Junqiao Wu is a Chancellor's professor and Department Chair of materials science at the University of California,Berkeley. Wu's materials science research focuses on semiconductors,electronic materials and thermal energy transport. Wu's research in semiconductors has led to major discoveries in the field,such as indium gallium nitride alloys have bandgaps spanning the entire near infrared to ultraviolet spectrum,electrons in vanadium dioxide conduct energy without conducting heat,a temperature adaptive radiative coating that automatically switches thermal emissivity,as well as a range of applications in solar cells,infrared imaging,photonics,and thermoelectrics. He received a BS degree from Fudan University,a MS degree from Peking University,and a PhD degree under Prof. Eugene Haller from UC Berkeley. He received postdoctoral training under Prof. Hongkun Park from Harvard University. His honors include the Berkeley Fellowship,the 29th Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award,the U.C. Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship,the Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellowship,the US-NSF Career Award,the US-DOE Early Career Award,the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House,the Outstanding Alumni Award from Peking University China,the Bakar Faculty Fellows Award,elected Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) and the 2023 John Bardeen Award from the Minerals,Metals and Materials Society (TMS). He is currently on the Chair Line of the Division of Materials Physics at the American Physical Society (APS),and holds joint appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Helen M. Chan is the New Jersey Zinc Professor at Lehigh University. Her work considers the development of ceramic-metal nanocomposites. She is on the board of directors of the American Ceramic Society.
Robert Andrzej Varin is a Polish-Canadian scientist,Professor of technical sciences,specialist of materials science and engineering.
Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil &Systems Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He is the founding director of the JHU Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulation (CISMMS) and was the director of an Air Force Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM). Prior to his appointment at JHU,Ghosh was the John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &Engineering at Ohio State University. He is a fellow of several professional societies,including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Ellen K. Cerreta is a materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory,working to provide materials science and technology solutions for national security missions. She is Fellow of ASM International.
Toru H. Okabe is a Japanese scientist specializing in materials science,environmental science,resource circulation engineering,and rare metals process engineering,particularly for electronic waste. His most recent work involves the advancement of new processing technology to recycle rare metals like niobium,titanium,yttrium,rhenium,neodymium,other lanthanides and precious metals. He is also involved in sustainable urban mining.
Julie Mae Schoenung is an American materials scientist who is a professor at the University of California,Irvine. She is co-director for the University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Lead Campus in Green Materials. Her research considers trimodal composites and green engineering. She was elected Fellow of The Minerals,Metals &Materials Society in 2021.
Carol Anne Handwerker is an American materials scientist. She is the Reinhardt Schuhmann,Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a fellow of both The Minerals,Metals &Materials Society and the Materials Research Society.
Elizabeth A. Holm,Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering,is chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,University of Michigan. Her research focus is computational materials. She worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 20 years before joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 2012. She is a Fellow of The Minerals,Metals &Materials Society and Fellow of ASM International. She was the 2013 President of the society. She is internationally known for her theory and modeling work on microstructural response,interfaces,carbon nanotubes,and additive manufacturing.
Judith A. Todd is a British-American materials scientist whose research topics have included multilayered coatings,the properties of metal alloys and ceramics,the use of lasers in the nondestructive analysis of materials,and the history of ancient metallurgy. She is the P. B. Breneman Chair at Pennsylvania State University,where she heads the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.
David Dye is a Professor of Metallurgy at Imperial College London. Dye specialises in fatigue and micromechanics of aerospace and nuclear materials,mainly Ni/Co superalloys,titanium,TWIP steel,and Zirconium alloys.
Dierk Raabe is a German materials scientist and researcher,who has contributed significantly to the field of materials science. He is a professor at RWTH Aachen University and director of the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf. He is the recipient of the 2004 Leibniz Prize,and the 2022 Acta Materialia's Gold Medal. He also received the honorary doctorate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Terence G. Langdon is a scientist and an academic. He is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of Southampton,and a Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the University of Southern California.
