TMS Board of Directors: Kevin J. Hemker
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| Kevin J. Hemker Public & Governmental Affairs Director |
Kevin J. Hemker is a professor in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Johns Hopkins University, with joint
appointments in the departments of
Materials Science & Engineering and
Earth & Planetary
Sciences.
Hemker holds a
B.S. in metallurgy
from the University
of Cincinnati and
M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in materials
science and
engineering from Stanford University.
He completed a post-doctoral fellowship
at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne (EPFL).
He was named a U.S. National Science
Foundation National Young Investigator,
was an invited professor at the EPFL
(1995) and the University of Paris XIII
(2001), and received the ASM Materials
Science Research Silver Medal in
2001.
His research group is engaged in
research on the identifi cation of processing-
microstructure-property relations in
materials for microelectromechanical
systems, characterization and modeling
of thermal barrier coatings, deformation
of nanocrystalline metals, and high-resolution
electron microscopy characterization
of dislocation core geometries in
metals and alloys.
Hemker has authored or co-authored
more than 125 journal articles and
proceedings, co-edited four books,
presented numerous invited and plenary
lectures, and edits Scripta Materialia.
He has been a member of TMS for 25
years, first as a student and then as a
professional. He has been a member of
the TMS Public & Governmental Affairs
Committee since 2004 and a member of
the TMS Strategic Planning Committee
since 2005. Hemker and his students have
also actively participated in Congressional
Visit Days events with TMS and the
Federation of Materials Societies each
of the past four years.