Board of Directors
The MRS Board of Directors is composed of elected officers and directors. Directors are elected for three-year terms with one third of the board changing each year. The president-elect serves three years (as president-elect, president and past president); the secretary is elected for a three-year term; and the treasurer is appointed yearly by the Board. Members of the Board may serve on the Board’s committees (Executive, Finance and Audit, Governance, Nominating), Board task forces or other ad hoc efforts commissioned by the Board.
2025 MRS Officers
Expiration of Board term follows name
Eric A. Stach ('26) University of Pennsylvania
Takao Someya ('25) The University of Tokyo
Young-Chang Joo ('27) Seoul National University
Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines ('25) Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Shenda Baker ('25) Biopharmaceutical Consultant
Todd M. Osman Materials Research Society
Directors
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Southern Connecticut State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Rice University
Stanford University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Applied Materials, Inc
Purdue University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of Waterloo
Georgia Institute of Technology
MRS Awards
