Kraft leads MRS Board of Directors for 2015
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Kraft leads MRS Board of Directors for 2015
2008, he is one of the elected referees for the DFG (German Research Foundation) in the area of materials science and engineering. For MRS, he served as Meeting Chair for the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2011. In 2014, Kraft served as MRS vice president/ president-elect.
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n January 1, Oliver Kraft (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2015, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2014. He succeeded Tia Benson Tolle (The Boeing Company), who now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Kristi Anseth (University of Colorado Boulder) was elected vice president/president-elect. Sean J. Hearne (Sandia National Laboratories) continues his term as MRS secretary, and Michael R. Fitzsimmons (Los Alamos National Laboratory) continues to serve as MRS treasurer. 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—Charles Black, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Karen L. Kavanagh, Simon Fraser University; Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sabrina Sartori, University of Oslo; and Anke Weidenkaff, University of Stuttgart—join new Board appointee David J. Parillo, The Dow Chemical Company, and continuing Board members Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University; C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico; David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science; Steve Eglash, Stanford University; Sossina M. Haile, California Institute of Technology; Andrea M. Hodge, University of Southern California; Hideo Hosono, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Fiona C. Meldrum, University of Leeds; Kornelius Nielsch, University of Hamburg; Eric A. Stach, Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Loucas Tsakalakos, General Electric– Global Research Center.
Oliver Kraft
Kristi Anseth
President
Vice President/President-Elect
Oliver Kraft is Director at the Institute for Applied Materials and jointly Robert Bosch Professor for Nanostructured Functional Materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Since 2011, Kraft is also speaker of the Helmholtz-Program Science and Technology of Nanosystems. His research interests focus on studying deformation and degradation mechanisms in nanomaterials for a wide range of applications, from microelectromechanical systems and microelectronics to energy conversion and storage. Kraft graduated from the University of Stuttgart in 1995 in physical metallurgy. From 1996 to 1997, he was a postdoc at Stanford University. He also worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart from 1997 to 2002. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles. Kraft is active in several national and international materials science societies. He has co-organized
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