Anseth leads MRS Board of Directors for 2016
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Anseth leads MRS Board of Directors for 2016
Progress in Materials Science, and Biotechnology and Bioengineering, as well as on the Board of Governors for Acta Materialia, Inc. She serves on the Advisory Council for the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the NIH and is the chair of the US NAE Frontiers of Engineering Program. Anseth has been an organizer of MRS symposia, presided as a meeting chair for the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting, and was elected to the MRS Board of Directors in 2003, where she also served as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. She has been recognized with the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2001) and the inaugural Mid-Career Researcher Award (2012).
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n January 1, Kristi S. Anseth (University of Colorado Boulder) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2016, after serving as vice president/ president-elect for 2015. She succeeded Oliver Kraft (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), who now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Susan Trolier-McKinstry (The Pennsylvania State University) was elected vice president/presidentelect, and David J. Parrillo (The Dow Chemical Company), a current board member, was appointed as treasurer by the Board of Directors. Sean J. Hearne (Sandia National Laboratories) continues his term as MRS secretary. MRS Executive Director Todd M. Osman serves as an ex-officio member of the MRS Board of Directors and is the chief staff officer. Newly elected members to the MRS Board of Directors—Matthew Copel, IBM TJ Watson Research Center; Paul S. Drzaic, Apple, Inc.; Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University; Young-Chang Joo, Seoul National University; and Magaly Spector, The University of Texas at Dallas—join continuing Board members Charles T. Black, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University; C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico; Hideo Hosono, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Karen L. Kavanagh, Simon Fraser University; Kornelius Nielsch, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research; Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sabrina Sartori, University of Oslo; Loucas Tsakalakos, General Electric– Global Research Center; and Anke Weidenkaff, University of Stuttgart.
Kristi S. Anseth President
Susan Trolier-McKinstry Vice President/President-Elect
Kristi S. Anseth is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned her BS degree from Purdue University in 1992 and her PhD degree from the University of Colorado in 1994. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow and subsequently joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor in 1996. Her research interests lie at
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