Fiona Meldrum to lead MRS Bulletin Editorial Board
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RS Bulletin recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. What started as an eight-page newsletter in 1975 has transformed into a widely recognized and highly respected publication in materials research that serves as a valuable benefit to more than 16,000 members of the Materials Research Society. Fiona Meldrum, chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Leeds, has accepted the position of chair of the MRS Bulletin Editorial Board. She follows Paul Drzaic, who has served in this role for more than 10 years and was recently elected to the MRS Board of Directors. “I am quite confident that Fiona will bring perspective, insight, and energy to the position, and successfully lead the Bulletin into its next phase,” said Drzaic. Meldrum has been an active member of MRS for many years, including serving as a volume organizer in 2010, as a single article reviewer for MRS Bulletin, a symposium organizer, a co-chair for the 2013 IMRC Meeting, and providing scientific reviews of MRS Bulletin theme articles on a regular basis. She has also organized symposia of other meetings, including the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and EUROMAT. Her current research focuses on crystallization, with a particular emphasis on biomineralization and bioinspired crystal growth. She obtained her undergraduate degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1989 and her doctorate in bioinspired crystallization from the University of Bath in 1992. Following a postdoctoral position at Syracuse University, USA, she carried out further postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, after having been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. Meldrum then joined The Australian National University in Canberra, before returning to the UK to take up a lectureship at Queen Mary
University of London in 1998. In 2003, Meldrum moved to the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol where she remained until she joined the University of Leeds in 2009. “It’s certainly a great privilege to be taking over as chair of the editorial board, and I hope to be able to support the Bulletin team and all of our volunteers to ensure that the Bulletin main- Paul Drzaic and Fiona Meldrum tains its status as the flagship MRS publication,” said Meldrum. “The Webinars, all while maintaining the last few years have seen a range of new quality and prestige of the MRS Bulletin innovations, such as the introduction of theme articles. The MRS Bulletin continMRS Bulletin Webinars, and I look forward ues to provide a major benefit for MRS to helping the team to continue to develop members, and the greater scientific/engithe journal—both in print and online— neering community,” said Drzaic. such that it continues to serve as a leading “Fiona Meldrum’s leadership will resource for all of the MRS members.” provide for the further evolution of the Drzaic is senior manager for emergBulletin. We have some exciting new ing display techno
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