Fitzsimmons leads MRS Board of Directors for 2019
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n January 1, Michael R. Fitzsimmons (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2019, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2018. He succeeded Sean J. Hearne (who will soon be at Oak Ridge National Laboratory following his position at Sandia National Laboratories). Hearne now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Matt Copel (IBM Research Division) was elected vice president/president-elect. Eric A. Stach (University of Pennsylvania) continues his term as MRS secretary, and David J. Parrillo (DowDuPont Industrial Intermediates and Infrastructure) continues his term 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 are Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan; Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University; Frances A. Houle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Sergei V. Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University. Mônica Jung de Andrade, Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, The University of Texas at Dallas, and Yusheng Zhao, Southern University of Science and Technology, were appointed by the Board. All members of the Board serve on at least one of the Board’s committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight and Audit, and Planning.
Michael R. Fitzsimmons President
neutron scattering. While in Tennessee, he developed means to control magnetism of interfaces in heterostructures and verticalarchitecture-networked materials using strain and electric fields. He has a long history with MRS, including service as a symposium organizer and as a Meeting chair of the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting. He also served six years as MRS treasurer. During this period, MRS undertook substantive changes to financial governance.
Matt Copel Michael R. Fitzsimmons is group leader for Large Scale Structures in the Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also holds a joint faculty position as professor of physics at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Neutron Scattering Society of America. Fitzsimmons obtained a BA degree in physics at Reed College and a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Cornell University. In 1989 and 1990, Fitzsimmons was a Fulbright Junior Research Fellow at the LudwigMaximilians-Universität München, Germany. Prior to moving to Tennessee, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years as a research scientist in the fields of magnetism and
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interfaces, surface chemistry and processing, and ion-beam analysis. He has contributed to areas where electronic materials are critical to industrial applications, using expertise in st
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