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Committee and Staff Biographies

RONALD LATANISION, Co-Chair, is a senior fellow at Exponent, Inc., an engineering and scientific consulting company and an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT, Dr. Latanision held joint faculty appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He led the School of Engineering’s Materials Processing Center at MIT as its director from 1985 to 1991. In addition, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a fellow of ASM International (formerly the American Society for Metals), NACE International, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. From 1983 to 1988, Dr. Latanision was the first holder of the Shell Distinguished Chair in Materials Science and was a founder of Altran Materials Engineering Corporation, established in 1992. His research interests are focused largely in the areas of materials processing and in the corrosion of metals and other materials in aqueous (ambient as well as high temperature and pressure) environments. Dr. Latanision’s expertise extends to electrochemical systems and processing technologies, ranging from fuel cells and batteries to supercritical water power generation and waste destruction. He has served as a science advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology in Washington, DC. In June 2002, Dr. Latanision was appointed by President George W. Bush to membership on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and was reappointed for a second 4-year term by President Barack Obama. Dr. Latanision has been active in a variety of educational initiatives, including serving as the chair of the Council on Primary and Secondary Education at MIT, founder of the MIT Science and Engineering Program for High School

Teachers, and serving as the co-chair of the Network of Educators in Science and Technology (NEST). He was a co-principal investigator (PI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored statewide systematic educational reform initiative in Massachusetts, Project PALMS (Partnerships Advancing Learning of Math and Science). Over the past 30 years, Dr. Latanision has served on more than 20 technical and education-related study and advisory committees of the National Academies, including as the co-chair of the NAE committee that produced the 2017 consensus study report Engineering Technology Education in the United States. In 2011, he was named the editor-in-chief of the NAE quarterly journal, The Bridge. He received a BS in metallurgy from The Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in metallurgical engineering from The Ohio State University.

KARIN M. RABE, Co-Chair, is the Board of Governors Professor of Physics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. Rabe is the leading materials science theorist of her generation. She has a large number of firsts involving calculations of materials properties from first principles. Her successes have been achieved through a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms involved in these complex properties, combined with delicate and precise judgment. Using computational methods to solve the quantum mechanics of crystalline solids from first principles, Dr. Rabe studies systems at or near structural, electronic, and magnetic phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high-k dielectrics, multiferroics, and shape-memory compounds. The high sensitivity of such materials to applied fields and stresses gives rise to functional behavior with a broad range of technological applications, including information and energy storage and conversion. Dr. Rabe has a particular interest in the properties of non-bulk structures stabilized in strained thin layers and the distinctive properties of interfaces in superlattices and other artificially structured systems, which are most efficiently explored by first principles–based modeling. She has published more than 130 papers in the theoretical analysis and prediction of the structure and properties of materials, with successful application to the design of new functional materials, and is currently the president of the Aspen Center for Physics. Her professional recognitions include fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS) (2003), the David Adler Lectureship Award in Materials Physics from APS (2008), fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2011), and membership in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2013). She holds an AB in physics from Princeton University (1982) and a PhD in physics from MIT (1987).

RAYMUNDO ARROYAVE holds the titles of professor and Presidential Impact Fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. One aspect of Dr. Arroyave’s research focuses on the use of advanced

computational tools to investigate the behavior of materials across multiple scales, with a focus on thermodynamics, phase stability, and kinetics of materials. He also works on the development of frameworks for the simulation-assisted design of alloys and other materials within the principles of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). Furthermore, Dr. Arroyave and his collaborators are currently working on the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-based frameworks for the discovery and design of materials. He is also interested in the development of novel workforce development approaches at the intersection of materials science, informatics, and design.

GERBRAND CEDER is the Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and a faculty staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received an engineering degree in metallurgy and applied materials science from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD in materials science from UC Berkeley. After his degree, Dr. Ceder joined the faculty at MIT. He was the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT for 24 years, after which he moved back to UC Berkeley, where he remains. His research group focuses on the use of computational modeling and experiments to design novel materials for energy generation and storage. Dr. Ceder is a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), and APS, and a member of the NAE, the American Academy of the Arts & Sciences, and the Flemish Royal Academy for the Arts and Sciences. He has received awards for his research from MRS, TMS, The Electrochemical Society, the National Institute for Materials Science, and the International Battery Association. Dr. Ceder has published more than 500 scientific papers in the fields of alloy theory, oxide phase stability, high-temperature superconductors, Li-battery materials, machine learning, and theory of materials synthesis, and holds 35 current or pending U.S. and international patents.

FELICIANO GIUSTINO is a professor of physics at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Endowed Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering. Prior to joining The University of Texas, he spent more than a decade at the University of Oxford as a professor of materials science and was elected to the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professorship in Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Giustino is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, a fellow of APS, and a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (2019–2021). He serves on the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal of Physics: Materials. Dr. Giustino’s interests lie in electronic structure theory, high-performance computing, and the atomic-scale design of advanced materials using quantum mechanics. He develops efficient and accurate first principles computational methods to predict the properties of materials, with an emphasis on many-body quantum field-theoretic

techniques and extreme-scale computing. Dr. Giustino employs these methods to design and create ex novo materials with bespoke functionality. His work has led to the discovery of new semiconductors for applications in energy and optoelectronics, including the first single-emitter-based white-light LED, licensed patents, and consulting roles in industry. Dr. Giustino authored 160 scientific manuscripts, published one book by Oxford University Press, and leads the development of open-source community software. He worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), earned his PhD in physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and held a postdoctoral appointment at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

AMIT GOYAL is the director of the RENEW Institute and the SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (UB). Dr. Goyal has more than 25 years of project management and administrative experience as a PI in managing technical projects of a diverse nature and involving multiple organizations. He concurrently holds the title of SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at UB in several departments at the university. Dr. Goyal is also the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of TapeSolar Inc., a private equity funded company, and also the president and CEO of TexMat LLC, an intellectual property holding and consulting company. His research interests include his development of low-cost, high-performance, flexible, electrical, and electronic devices. He is also interested in three-dimensional (3D) self-assembly of controlled nanostructures within device layers for enhanced performance or for deriving new functionalities. Functional areas of particular emphasis include superconducting materials, photovoltaic materials, ferroelectric materials, multiferroic materials, and two-dimensional materials. A significant emphasis is on microstructurally engineered materials for via controlled synthesis using scalable approaches. His focus is also on energy and environmental materials. Dr. Goyal is presently an emeritus corporate fellow at UT-Battelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and was the chair of the UT-Battelle/ORNL Corporate Fellows Council that advised ORNL senior management on scientific and technological issues and opportunities. Dr. Goyal has experience as president, CEO, and financial head, as well as experience in interacting with private equity firms, such as venture capital firms and angel investors. He has authored more than 350 technical publications and has 87 issued patents comprising 70 U.S. and 17 international patents, and more than 20 patents pending. Dr. Goyal is a member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the NAE and has been elected a fellow of eight professional societies: AAAS; MRS; APS; the World Innovation Foundation; the American Society of Metals; the Institute of Physics (IOP); the American Ceramic Society, and the World Technology Network. He received a BTech (Honors) in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute

of Technology, Kharagpur (India) in 1986, an MS in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Rochester in 1988, and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Rochester in 1991. Dr. Goyal also has executive business training from the Sloan School of Management at MIT (2005), an executive MBA from Purdue University (2002), and an international executive MBA from Tilburg University (2002).

OLIVIA GRAEVE is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the director of the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems, and the faculty director of the IDEA Engineering Student Center. She holds a PhD in materials science and engineering from UC Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in structural engineering from UC San Diego. Her area of research focuses on fundamental studies of the synthesis and processing of nanostructured materials, including ceramic and metallic nanomaterials and amorphous/nanocrystalline composites for both structural and functional applications, with a special emphasis on electromagnetic multifunctional materials for sensors and energy applications. Dr. Graeve has served on numerous committees of her primary societies (American Ceramic Society [ACerS], MRS, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and Sociedad Mexicana de Materials, A.C.) in many different capacities and actively participates in organizing national and international conferences, as well as serving on various review boards and advisory panels. She has been involved in many activities related to the recruitment and retention of women and Hispanic students in science and engineering and has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER award, the 2006 Hispanic Educator of the Year award by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, the 2010 Karl Schwartzwalder Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award by the American Ceramic Society, the 2012 B.J. Harrington Lectureship by McGill University, the 2011 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers “Jaime Oaxaca” Award, Outstanding Engineering Educator by the San Diego Chapter of the California Society of Professional Engineers (2015), and Alumna of the Year by Southwestern College (2015). More recently, Dr. Graeve was named into the Tijuana Walk of Fame (2014), inducted into the Mexican Academy of Engineering (2016), and named fellow of ACerS (2017).

DAVID GREEN is an associate professor at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the synthesis of well-defined nanoparticles, their dispersion into polymer solutions and melts, and their suspension rheology. Green’s work has produced well-defined nanoparticles that are optimized for a range of industrially relevant properties, such as particle stability, surface expression, or catalytic activity. He is also interested in developing timely methods for determining nanoparticle growth rates inside emulsions that are used in formulating a variety of commercial products like fiber-optic coatings, automotive finishes, and chromatographic packings.

His work examines how grafting uniform polymers to the interfaces of well-defined nanoparticles affects their rheological behavior in polymer solutions and melts. With Green’s fundamental studies, he seeks to optimize processing to achieve a desirable microstructure in industrial suspensions, and to set a foundation for developing constitutive rheological models that predict the complex behavior of industrial suspensions. To this end, he uses rheological and rheo-optical measurements to elucidate how the interactions within model suspensions affect their flow at nano-, micro-, and macroscopic length scales, and as such, the full range of interactions that effect the processing of engineered materials.

PREETI KAMAKOTI is a technology leader and a member of technical staff at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Dr. Kamakoti has more than 15 years of experience in materials research and development (R&D) across discovery, development, and scale-up. She spent the first few years of her career in the basic research organization, where she worked on and led several efforts on computational materials discovery and design for separations and catalysis. In 2013, Dr. Kamakoti moved to the process technology organization, focused on development and scale-up of early-stage concepts into real-world materials technologies in the refining, chemical space. Over the past 5 years, she envisioned, built from ground up, grew, and is currently leading a successful grassroots initiative combining digitalization and AI to accelerate materials R&D. This work has made a significant business impact and transformed the organization from an experience-driven to a data-driven mindset. Dr. Kamakoti has extensive experience in collaboration with academic, governmental, and third parties to advance computational/data-driven materials R&D. She currently serves as a committee member on the Northeast Corridor Zeolites Association and has served on other academic advisory boards previously.

ROBERT V. KOHN is the Silver Professor of Mathematics at New York University. He works in nonlinear partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. Much of his research addresses challenges from physics and materials science. One recurrent theme is the relationship between microstructure and macroscopic behavior; this has included designing composite materials with extremal effective behavior and analyzing the effective behavior of shape-memory polycrystals. Another recurrent theme is “energy-driven pattern formation”—that is, understanding how the domain patterns seen in magnetic materials, shape-memory materials, and other systems described by Landau theories emerge as a consequence of energy minimization. Recently Dr. Kohn has applied this perspective to analyze load-driven wrinkling of thin elastic sheets. Physical experiments can observe the patterns that form, and numerical simulations can demonstrate within a model how they develop. But neither experiment nor simulation can tell us “why” a

system chooses a particular pattern. His variational perspective provides a valuable complement to other methods by showing that energy minimization requires certain types of patterns. Dr. Kohn also works in other areas where optimization plays a key role. One current theme is “prediction with expert advice”—a widely used paradigm for machine learning. Here optimization is relevant in adversarial settings, where “prediction” amounts to a repeated two-person game involving the predictor and an adversary. Nonlinear partial differential equations arise by considering continuum limits and taking advantage of analogies with optimal control. He received his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1979. Dr. Kohn is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and AMS, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

JOHN MAURO is a professor and the associate head for graduate education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). Dr. Mauro earned a BS in glass engineering science (2001), BA in computer science (2001), and PhD in glass science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including as the senior research manager of the Glass Research department. Dr. Mauro is the inventor and co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. He joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics and kinetics, and the topology of disordered networks. Dr. Mauro is the author of 295 peer-reviewed publications and is the editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He is the co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (2019), the definitive textbook on glass science and technology, and he is the author of the textbook Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (2021). Dr. Mauro is a member of the NAE and a fellow of the NAI, with 58 granted U.S. patents and another ~20 additional patents pending. He is also a fellow of ACerS and the Society of Glass Technology.

RISTO NIEMINEN is a distinguished professor (emeritus) at Aalto University, Finland. His research area is condensed matter and materials physics, especially theoretical and computational methods as applied to multiscale materials modeling. He has developed widely used methods and applied them in interpreting a variety of experimental results, such as atomic-scale defects, surfaces and interfaces of solids, and nanoscale structures and assemblies. His research has contributed to the understanding of carrier concentration and compensation, defect metastability, doping limits, diffusivity, and complex formation, important for (opto)electronics applications. This work includes wide-gap and insulating materials, nitrides, complex oxides, perovskites, and chalcopyrites, as well as graphene and related

materials. He studied at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) and Cambridge University, and was postdoctoral at NORDITA, Copenhagen. Before joining Aalto in 1987, Dr. Nieminen was an associate professor at Jyväskylä University, Finland, and a visiting professor at Cornell University. He served as the scientific director for the Center for Scientific Computing (1989–1996) and was the founder and director of the Finnish Center for Excellence for Computational Nanoscience at Aalto (2000–2013) and the former chair of the Psi-k European Network for electronic-structure calculations. Dr. Nieminen is the founding editor of two research journals, Computational Materials Science and Electronic Structure. He is a fellow of APS and IOP and a member of the NAS.

SHERINE OBARE is an associate professor at Western Michigan University. She works on nanomaterials for drug delivery and chemical sensing. Dr. Obare investigated fluorescent chemosensors to monitor for organophosphorous, which can inhibit cholinesterase and can have severe environmental and health impacts. She was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in 2006. This allowed her to develop multi-electron transfer catalysts. Dr. Obare is interested in multi-electron transfer and has investigated electron transfer from heme-functionalized titanium dioxide to organohalide pollutants. She demonstrated that organohalides degrade via multi-electron pathways. Dr. Obare has explored new techniques to synthesize and characterize monodisperse nanoparticles that can be used to detect bacteria in waterborne diseases. She was appointed the associate dean at Western Michigan University in 2015 and was responsible for research, education, diversity, and global engagement across the university. Dr. Obare believes that early authentic research is essential for underrepresented groups to gain a rational view of the world. She earned a BS in chemistry from West Virginia State University and a PhD in inorganic/analytical chemistry from the University of South Carolina and completed her postdoctoral in chemistry and environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Obare is currently the dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and an associate editor for the Journal of Nanomaterials.

TRESA POLLOCK is the ALCOA Distinguished Professor of Materials at UC Santa Barbara. Previously, she was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at CMU and at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments, unique high temperature materials processing paths, ultrafast laser-material interactions, alloy design, and 3D materials characterization. Dr. Pollock’s recent research has focused on thermal barrier coatings systems and platinum group metal-containing bond coats, new intermetallic-containing

cobalt-base materials, vapor phase processing of sheet materials for hypersonic flight systems, growth of nickel-base alloy single crystals with a new liquid tin-assisted Bridgman technique, development of new femtosecond laser-aided 3D tomography techniques, and development of models for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering efforts. She is a member of the NAE and a fellow at TMS and ASM International, an associate editor of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, and a former president of TMS. Dr. Pollock holds a PhD in materials science and engineering from MIT. She has served on the National Academies’ National Materials and Manufacturing Board, Panel on Materials Science and Engineering at the Army Research Laboratory, and Panel on Armor and Armaments for the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board.

AARTI SINGH is an associate professor in the Machine Learning Department at CMU. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and signal processing and focuses on designing statistically and computationally efficient algorithms that can interactively leverage inherent structure in the data, and its application to scientific domains. She received a BE in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Delhi in 1997 and an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Singh was a postdoctoral research associate at the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University before joining CMU in 2009. Her work is recognized by an NSF CAREER Award, a United States Air Force Young Investigator Award, the A. Nico Habermann Junior Faculty Chair Award, the Harold A. Peterson Best Dissertation Award, and four best student paper awards. Dr. Singh’s service honors include serving as the program chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020, the program chair for the Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2017 conference, the associate editor for IEEE Transactions of Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, steering committee lead for the NSF innovation lab on data-driven chemistry, and an expert team member for the Office of Naval Research/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TMS Science and Technology study on AI for Materials and Manufacturing innovation and the National Academies’ Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.

DEIDRE STRAND is the chief scientific officer at Wildcat Discovery Technologies. Dr. Strand has more than 25 years of experience in materials research, development, and commercialization, primarily in the areas of energy storage (lithium ion batteries) and electronic applications. Prior to joining Wildcat in 2012, she served as a research fellow at Dow Chemical, where she was the technical lead in Dow Energy Materials, as well as the PI on external research programs with universities and

national laboratories on battery materials. Dr. Strand also has extensive experience in patent analysis and technical due diligence of new technologies. She completed her PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the supervision of Professor John Schrag. Her PhD research focused on rheology and birefringence of polymeric solutions. Dr. Strand also holds an MS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a BS in chemistry from North Dakota State University.

KATSUYO THORNTON is the L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. She received her BS from Iowa State University and her MS and PhD from the University of Chicago. Her work bridges the gap between the fundamental understanding and practical applications by using large-scale simulations to predict the evolution of micro- and nano-sized structures in materials during process and operations. Dr. Thornton’s recent topics of research include modeling and simulation of synthesis such as metathesis and of processing of structural metals, evolution of topologically and morphologically complex microstructures such as nano-porous metals in three dimensions, simulations of electrochemical systems including batteries and solid-oxide fuel cells, and modeling and simulation of corrosion. In addition to her research expertise, because of her background in high-performance computing, Dr. Thorton brings to the committee an understanding of the state-of-the-art capabilities of multi-user computational facilities, such as NSF’s XSEDE and its benefit on computational materials research, design, and engineering. She has also been involved in addressing the long-term needs of the materials research community. For example, Dr. Thorton surveyed and reported on the trends and needs in computational materials science and education on multiple occasions and established the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education, which aims to “educate the educator” to transform the field of materials science and engineering with advanced computational tools. Her accomplishments have been recognized by awards such as the TMS Brimacombe Prize and the TMS Julia and Johanness Weertman Educator Award, and as a fellow of ASM International.

RICHARD VAIA is the chief scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He is also a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Dr. Vaia serves as the principal scientific authority and primary authority for the technical content of the Science and Technology portfolio, ensuring that the Directorate meets national, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Air Force Materiel Command, and AFRL objectives in core area technologies. Dr. Vaia’s research has covered the chemistry, physics, and processing of nanomaterials for multifunctional structures, coatings, inks, flexible electronics, optical devices, and autonomous concepts. He

has published more than 220 articles, is the co-inventor on 16 patents, and has given more than 150 plenary, keynote, and invited talks at national and international scientific venues. Previously, he held the positions of branch chief for the NanoStructured and Biological Materials Branch at AFRL and technical director for Functional Materials Division at AFRL. Dr. Vaia has also been the senior scientist for Emergent Materials Systems at AFRL and is the recipient of a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship and a U.S. Air Force Outstanding Scientist award. He is a member of the NAE, a member at large for the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Division at the American Chemical Society (ACS), and a 2006 Materials Research Laboratory visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara.

KAREN L. WOOLEY holds the W.T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and is a distinguished professor at Texas A&M University, with appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering. She is also the co-founder and president of Sugar Plastics, LLC, and the chief technology officer of Teysha Technologies, LTD. Dr. Wooley relocated to Texas A&M University in 2009, after having spent the first 16 years of her independent academic career on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include the synthesis and characterization of degradable polymers derived from natural products, unique macromolecular architectures, complex polymer assemblies, and well-defined nanostructured materials, with emphases on the design and development of materials that address societal, medical, technological, and/or environmental advances. Her recent awards include the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (2014), the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2014), and election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2015) and the NAI (2019). In 2020, Dr. Wooley was awarded a fellowship to AAAS, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the NAS. She was selected as a recipient of a 2021 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award and was named as the 2021 SEC Professor of the Year. Dr. Wooley holds a BS in chemistry from Oregon State University (1988) and a PhD in polymer chemistry from Cornell University (1993). She is a member of the NAS.

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ERIK SVEDBERG is a National Materials and Manufacturing Board Scholar at the National Academies, where he has been employed since 2008. In this role, he works with experts from across the nation to develop, negotiate, and oversee scientific and technical advisory studies for federal agencies related to questions of materials science, manufacturing, and engineering design. His previous and current activities at the National Academies includes work as a study director for Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Aerospace Propulsion Systems; Corrosion Research Grand

Challenges; Opportunities in Protection Materials; Optics and Photonics, Essential Technologies for Our Nation; Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative; Airport Passenger Screening; Frontiers of Materials Research: A Decadal Survey; Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes; and High-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations. Additionally, he oversaw workshops such as Big Data in Materials Research and Development, Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing, Materials and Manufacturing Capabilities for Sustaining Defense Systems, New and Novel Processes That Are on the Verge of Industrial Modernization, and Emerging Needs in Quantum-Enabled Systems. Dr. Svedberg has a decade of industry experience with both small and large companies in the materials science area and has been a guest researcher at NIST for several years. He has been awarded and overseen five research grants and has published more than 80 scientific articles, been granted two patents, and is cited more than 1,600 times with an h-index of 22. His doctoral and master’s degrees are in materials science, and he is a fellow of AAAS, the American Vacuum Society, and the Washington Academy of Science, including being their 2019 leadership in material science award recipient.