Armand Paul Alivisatos is a Greek-American chemist and academic administrator who has served as the 14th president of the University of Chicago since September 2021. He is a pioneer in nanomaterials development and an authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in biomedical and renewable energy applications. He was ranked fifth among the world's top 100 chemists for the period 2000–2010 in the list released by Thomson Reuters.
Sossina M. Haile is an Ethiopian-American chemist,known for developing the first solid acid fuel cells. She is a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University,Illinois,US.
Ramamoorthy Ramesh is an American materials scientist of Indian descent who has contributed to the synthesis,assembly and understanding of complex functional oxides. In particular,he has worked on the fundamental science and technology translation of ferroelectric perovskites,manganites with colossal magnetoresistance,and multiferroic oxides with potential benefits for modern information technologies. To date,Ramesh has >675 publications with >100,000 citations,resulting in an h-index >150. He was named Citation Laureate for his research on multiferroics (2014).
Gerbrand Ceder is a Belgian–American scientist who is a professor and the Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research at the University of California,Berkeley. He has a joint appointment as a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is notable for his pioneering research in high-throughput computational materials design,and in the development of novel lithium-ion battery technologies. He is co-founder of the Materials Project,an open-source online database of ab initio calculated material properties,which inspired the Materials Genome Initiative by the Obama administration in 2011. He was previously the founder and CTO of Pellion Technologies,which aimed to commercialize magnesium-ion batteries. In 2017 Gerbrand Ceder was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering,"For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology."
Kenji Uchino is an American electronics engineer,physicist,academic,inventor and industry executive. He is currently an academy professor of Electrical Engineering,Emeritus Academy Institute at Pennsylvania State University,where he also directs the International Center for Actuators and Transducers at Materials Research Institute. He is the former associate director at The US Office of Naval Research –Global Tokyo Office.
Stephen K. Streiffer is an American materials scientist who began serving as the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2023. Prior to this position,he served as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Streiffer joined Stanford University in 2022 as vice present for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory after 24 years at Argonne National Laboratory.
Ju Li is an American scientist,engineer,and currently the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A highly cited expert in his field,he is also a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and American Physical Society.
David R. Clarke is a material scientist and the inaugural Extended Tarr Family Professor of Material Science and Applied Physics at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). He is the principal investigator of the Materials Discovery and Applications Group.
Yuri Suzuki is a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She studies novel ground states and magnetic phenomena. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow of the National Science Foundation.
Susan Trolier-McKinstry is an American materials scientist. She is the Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University,Director of the W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory,and co-director of the Nanofabrication facility.
Jürgen Rödel is a German materials scientist and professor of non-metallic inorganic materials at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb is a mechanical engineer in the field of micro and nano engineering and mechanics of materials. She is the Harris Saunders,Jr. Chair and Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,Georgia. Bassiri-Gharb leads the Smart Materials,Advanced Research and Technology (SMART) Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Her research seeks to characterize and optimize the optical and electric response of interferometric modulator (IMOD) displays. She also investigates novel materials to improve reliability and processing of IMOD.
Dawn Austin Bonnell is the Senior Vice Provost for Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously served as the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation Nano–Bio Interface Center,Vice President of the American Ceramic Society and President of the American Vacuum Society. In 2024,she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Ana Claudia Arias is a Brazilian American physicist who is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research considers printed electronic materials and their application in flexible electronics and wearable medical devices.
W. Craig Carter is an American materials scientist,a Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a co-founder of the 24M Technologies Company.
Dragan Damjanovic is a Swiss-Bosnian-Herzegovinian materials scientist. From 2008 to 2022,he was a professor of material sciences at EPFL and head of the Group for Ferroelectrics and Functional Oxides.
John Ballato is an American materials scientist,entrepreneur,and academic. He holds the J. E. Sirrine Endowed Chair of Optical Fiber and is a professor of materials science and engineering,electrical and computer engineering,as well as physics and astronomy at Clemson University. He has received many international recognitions for his research on optical and optoelectronic materials,particularly as relates to optical fiber.
Olivier Guillon is a French-German materials scientist and engineer. He is the Director of the Institute of Energy Materials and Devices (IMD-2):Materials Synthesis and Processing at Forschungszentrum Jülich and professor at RWTH Aachen University.
Nava Setter is a retired Israeli and Swiss materials scientist focusing on electroceramics including ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials,thin films and thick films of ceramics,and microsensors and microactuators. She is a professor emeritus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
The Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI) is a research institute at Rice University established in 2023. RAMI focuses on advancing materials research and technology development to address global challenges in energy,sustainability,and national security. It aims to accelerate the discovery and design of new materials through a combination of experimental research and advanced computational techniques,including machine learning and artificial intelligence. RAMI's core areas of focus include energy efficiency,energy storage,environmental sustainability,and materials for national security applications. RAMI was founded with the mission of supporting the energy transition and driving innovations in material science. The institute brings together researchers,scientists,and engineers from various disciplines to collaborate on cutting-edge projects that target critical challenges in energy systems and sustainability.
