Hearne leads MRS Board of Directors for 2018

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n January 1, Sean J. Hearne (Sandia National Laboratories) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2018, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2017. He succeeded Susan Trolier-McKinstry (The Pennsylvania State University), who now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Michael R. Fitzsimmons (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) was elected vice president/president-elect. Eric A. Stach (University of Pennsylvania) continues his term as MRS secretary and David J. Parrillo (The Dow Chemical Company) 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—Griselda Bonilla, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Paul McIntyre, Stanford University; Christopher A. Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rachel Segalman, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Ehrenfried Zschech, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems—join continuing Board members Li-Chyong Chen, National Taiwan University; Matt Copel, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Paul S. Drzaic, Apple, Inc.; Dawnielle FarrarGaines, Johns Hopkins University; Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University; Claudia Gutiérrez-Wing, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares; Young-Chang Joo, Seoul National University; Lincoln J. Lauhon, Northwestern University; Magaly Spector, The University of Texas at Dallas; and Molly M. Stevens, Imperial College London. All members of the Board serve on at least one of the Board’s committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational and Strategic Oversight, and Planning.

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Sean J. Hearne President

research topics, including micro- and nanofabrication and nano-enabled devices for electrical energy storage. Hearne has been active in the MRS community since attending his first MRS Meeting in 1995 as a graduate student. Over the years, he has presented, organized symposia, and served on a number of committees and task forces. From 2007 to 2010, he chaired the MRS Information Services Committee, which oversaw all MRS publications. He was secretary on the MRS Board of Directors from 2011 to 2016.

Michael R. Fitzsimmons Vice President/President-Elect

Sean J. Hearne is interim co-director at the US Department of Energy Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) located at Sandia National Laboratories, where he works closely with partners from Los Alamos National Laboratory to ensure CINT has a vibrant international user program that advances the understanding of the fundamental science behind integrating nanocomponents into systems that impact the macroscopic world. He received his PhD degree in solid-state physics from Arizona State University in 2000. He worked from 2000 to 2001 at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior process engineer in the Components Research Gro