MRS Bulletin Volume Organizers guide technical theme topics for 2018
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he MRS Bulletin 2018 Volume Organizers, appointed by MRS President-Elect Susan Trolier-McKinstry, will guide the development of theme topics for the 2018 volume year. They are Karsten Albe (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany), Hiroshi Funakubo (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Michael Hickner (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), and Beth Stadler (University of Minnesota, USA). Karsten Albe is a professor of materials science and Head of the Materials Modeling Division at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany. He re c e i v e d h i s diploma in physics from Universität Ulm and obtained his doctorate from Te c h n i s c h e Universit ät Dresden. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined TU Darmstadt as a junior faculty member and has been a full professor since 2007. His research focuses on modeling the electronic structure, thermodynamics, and kinetics of defects in functional oxides by quantum mechanical methods. Other activities include the simulation of mechanical properties of nanostructured metals by large-scale computer simulations. Albe has been a spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center 595: “Electrical Fatigue in Functional Materials,” and was elected as a member of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft panel for materials science and engineering. He is the author of more than 120 publications and has served as a co-chairperson of the
Materials Science and Engineering Congress in 2012 and 2014. Hiroshi Funakubo is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the School of Materials and Chemical Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1989, he became an assistant professor in the faculty of engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received a PhD degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994. He was appointed associate professor in 1997, followed by full professor in 2012 of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Funakubo’s research is focused on preparation and properties of dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric films, as well as film solid-oxide fuel cells and thermoelectric materials development. He has been involved in the organization of several international ferroelectric conferences and organized a MRS symposium on ferroelectric thin films at the 2003 MRS Fall Meeting. Michael Hickner is an associate professor and the Corning Faculty Fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). Before joining Penn State in 2007, he was a staff member at Sandia National L ab orator ies. His res e arch group focuses on the synthesis and properties of ioncontaining polymers, measurement of
water–polymer interactions using spectroscopic techniques, an
