Volkert Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2008
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Volkert Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2008
Cynthia A. Volkert On January 1, Cynthia A. Volkert (University of Göttingen) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society for 2008, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2007. She succeeded Alan J. Hurd (Los Alamos National Laboratory), who now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Shefford P. Baker (Cornell University) was elected vice president/ president-elect. Cynthia A. Volkert President Cynthia A. Volkert is a professor at the Institute of Materials Physics at the University of Göttingen where she has been since October 2007. She studied physics at McGill University (Bachelor’s degree) and Harvard University (PhD degree) and then spent 10 years as a staff member at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. In 1999, she moved to Germany where she worked first at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and then at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, prior to moving to Göttingen. Volkert’s research is focused on stability and mechanical behavior of nanostructured materials. She has worked on structural relaxation and flow in metallic glasses, effects of ion irradiation on solids, strain relaxation in heteroepitaxial films, stress effects on optical properties of glasses, phase changes on very short time scales, mechanical properties of thin metal films, and electromigration in thin films. Most recently, she has used various micromechanical methods to perform ex situ and in situ investigations of deformation and dislocation dynamics in small dimensions. In addition to her involvement in several committees, Volkert has served as MRS vice president/president-elect, secretary, treasurer, chair of the Operational Over56
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sight Committee for the board of directors, co-Guest Editor of the May 2007 issue of MRS Bulletin, and has been an organizer for three symposia and a meeting chair for the 2001 MRS Spring Meeting. Shefford P. Baker Vice President/President-Elect Shefford P. Baker is associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. After completing an undergraduate degree in music and a brief career as a professional musician and music teacher, he went back to school, receiving his PhD degree in materials science and engineering at Stanford University in 1993. He was a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Materials Research in Stuttgart from 1993 to 1997 and joined the Cornell faculty in 1998. Baker’s research focuses on the unique mechanical properties of materials having microstructural or dimensional length scales in the nanometer regime. Recent achievements include discovery of a new microstructure in Ta thin films and characterization of the phase transformation that produces it, x-ray studies of stress states and relaxation in different texture components in thin metal films, dislocation dynamics simulations and analytical modeling of dislocation structures in thin layers, quantitative measurements of
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