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

President

Eric A. Stach ('26) University of Pennsylvania

Immediate Past President

Takao Someya ('25) The University of Tokyo

Vice President

Young-Chang Joo ('27) Seoul National University

Secretary

Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines ('25) Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Treasurer

Shenda Baker ('25) Synedgen Inc.

Executive Director

Todd M. Osman Materials Research Society

Directors

Derya Baran ('27)

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Christine Caragianis Broadbridge ('25)

Southern Connecticut State University

Antonio Facchetti ('26)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Christine Luscombe ('26)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Lane W. Martin ('27)

Rice University

Alberto Salleo ('25)

Stanford University

Izabela Szlufarska ('27)

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robert J. Visser ('26)

Applied Materials, Inc

Haiyan Wang ('25)

Purdue University

Ashley White ('27)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

William S. Wong ('25)

University of Waterloo

Shannon Yee ('26)

Georgia Institute of Technology