The following individuals have been involved in stringently curating programming and organizing Accelerating Discovery for Mechanical Behavior of Materials 2024.
Aeriel D.M. Leonard, (Lead Organizer)
The Ohio State University
Aeriel D.M. Leonard joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University as an assistant professor upon completing an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2020 at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRC) in Washington D.C. While at NRC, she used advanced characterization techniques, such as x-ray computed tomography and high energy diffraction microscopy, to understand damage and texture evolution during in-situ loading in additive manufactured materials She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Shas led and worked on many teams aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering, including developing and implementing a leadership camp for female engineering students in Monrovia, Liberia. She is the chair of the Fourth Summit on Diversity in Minerals, Metals, and Materials (DMMM4) Organizing Committee and runs a lifestyle blog titled AerielViews aimed at young graduate and professional students.
Frank Delrio, (Programming Chair)
Sandia National Laboratories
Frank Delrio is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Materials Mechanics and Tribology Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Prior to this position, he was a Group Leader for the Fatigue and Fracture Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. During his tenure at the two different national laboratories, he has been a practicing experimentalist in nanomechanics and nanotribology, with a focus on the development and use of new methods in atomic force microscopy and instrumented indentation for small-scale mechanical testing in extreme environments. Altogether, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Science Advances, PNAS, Nano Letters, and Energy & Environmental Science. He is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the ASME Orr Early Career Award, Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award, SEM A.J. Durelli Award, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is also the recent recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship; during his tenure in Germany, he collaborated with staff scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM on high-throughput fracture testing and predictive modeling of structural materials for a hydrogen economy.
Brad Boyce
Sandia National Laboratories
Brad Boyce is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Boyce received a B.S. degree from Michigan Technological University in 1996 in metallurgical engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1998 and 2001 from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the technical staff at Sandia in 2001, where his research interests lie in micromechanisms of deformation and failure. He was promoted to principal member of the technical staff in 2005 and received the distinguished appointment in 2015. In 2017, Boyce also joined the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in the in-situ characterization and nanomechanics thrust. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles and holds five U.S. patents on topics such as microsystems reliability, nanoindentation, fracture in structural alloys, weld metallurgy, and fatigue mechanisms. Boyce is a past recipient of the Hertz Foundation Fellowship, the TMS Brimacombe Medal, the TMS Structural Materials Division Young Leaders Professional Development Award, and the Marcus A. Grossman Young Author Award. Over the past 20 years, he has served in numerous volunteer capacities for TMS. He has organized or co-organized 10 technical symposia and has served as a topic editor for JOM, as well as a key reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. In addition, he has chaired the TMS Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee and the Programming Committee. He has served on the TMS Board of Directors, the TMS Foundation Board of Trustees, and on numerous other committees, both technical and functional. Outside of TMS, he has also been substantially involved in several other societies. His vision for TMS includes staying true to TMS’s core strengths while also being innovative, especially in light of the global pandemic, as constraints on travel continue to evolve.
Daniel Gianola
University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Gianola is Professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He has also served as the faculty director of the Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility at UCSB, which is a central shared facility with hundreds of active users. Gianola joined the Materials Department at UCSB in early 2016 after holding the positions of associate professor and Skirkanich Assistant Professor, all in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty, Gianola was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Gianola is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, and the TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award. His research group at UCSB specializes in research dealing with deformation at the micro- and nanoscale, particularly using in situ nanomechanical testing techniques.
John Lewandowski
Case Western Reserve University
John Lewandowski is the Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Reliability Center (AMMRC). His primary appointment is in Materials Science and Engineering with secondary appointment in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Lewandowski’s BS, ME, and PhD are in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, earned at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow, followed by a NATO/NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge University. Lewandowski is also Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University. His publications/presentations exceed 345 and 1050, respectively, in areas of processing/structure/property relationships in crystalline and amorphous advanced materials systems for aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and defense applications. Lewandowski’s recent work focuses on HEAs, as well as additive and other advanced manufacturing techniques. His collaborative work continues using synchrotron experiments to image damage evolution and environmental fracture in various structural aluminum alloys. Lewandowski’s various national/international awards for research and teaching/mentoring activities include the TMS Leadership Award, 2022 ASM Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award, ASMI Fellow, and Institute of Metals Charles Hatchett Award for work on Nb. He has served on numerous NSF and NAS/NRC panels while also serving on the editorial board of a number of journals.
Erica Lilleodden
Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems
Erica Lilleodden has been director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS since February 2022. In her research work she is primarily concerned with the nano- and micromechanics of materials such as metals, ceramics, and composites.
Following her studies in materials science at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and her Ph.D. at Stanford University, her professional career has included positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and most recently as Head of the Department of Experimental Materials Mechanics at the Helmholtz Center Hereon. From 2014 to February 2022, she was Professor of Experimental Nano- and Micromechanics at the Institute for High-Performance Ceramic Materials at the Hamburg University of Technology.
Her scientific publications to date include more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She is a regularly invited speaker at high-profile international meetings and symposia, has been a lecturer since 2002, and is on the review panel for renowned journals such as Science, Nature, and Nature Materials.
Pania Newell
University of Utah
Pania Newell is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and adjunct faculty positions at the Kahlert School of Computing and Civil Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Before joining the University of Utah, she was a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and University Colorado-Boulder, respectively. Her research interest lies in the interface of mechanics and material sciences. In particular, she is interested in multi-scale, multi-physics phenomena in heterogeneous porous materials through developing theoretical, computational, and experimental frameworks combined with data sciences. She is the co-founder/co-host of an academic podcast called “This Academic Life”.
Corinne Packard
Colorado School of Mines
Corinne Packard is a professor in the George S. Ansell Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Prior to appointment at Mines, Packard earned her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Packard’s research focuses on elucidating the principles and mechanisms of deformation behavior in ceramics to understand how complex stress state can be controlled to yield desirable mechanical behavior in materials. Notable awards include the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and the Colorado School of Mines Faculty Excellence Award. She has an impactful research portfolio with more than 60 archival publications and four issued patents; leads outreach with women and disabled children; and is a devoted teacher, developing diverse and highly trained professionals for STEM careers and leadership in industry and academia.
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