Recipient: 2004 Robert Lansing Hardy Award

Christopher Schuh

Biography: Christopher Schuh is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2001, both in materials science and engineering. His research interests are microstructural design and microstructure-mechanical property relationships, grain boundaries and interfaces, amorphous and nanocrystalline metals, and mechanical properties of advanced materials. He has received the following honors and awards: appointed to the board of review, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 2002; Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award (AIME) for the best article published by AIME by a young author, 2002; Henry Marion Howe Medal (ASM International) for the best article of 2000 in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions; Lawrence Livermore Postdoctoral Fellowship competition winner, 2001; and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 1998–2001.