Instructors
A team of expert instructors will lead participants through six modules.
Instructors
Daniel B. Miracle (Lead Instructor)
Air Force Research Laboratory
Dan Miracle is a Senior Scientist in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). His research has covered nickel-based superalloys and intermetallic compounds; metal matrix composites; advanced aluminum alloys; and boron-modified titanium alloys. His current research explores metallic glasses and high-entropy alloys. Miracle received a B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wright State University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Institute of Metal Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of ASM, International; The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS); AFRL, and is an Honorary Member of the Indian Institute of Metals. Miracle received the AF Basic Research Award and the Presidential Rank Award. He is author or co-author of over 220 peer-reviewed scientific articles and seven book chapters, and is co-editor of six books. Miracle has given over 200 plenary, keynote and invited talks.
Francisco Coury
Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Francisco Gil Coury is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees in materials engineering from UFSCar and Ph.D. from Colorado School of Mines (USA) in 2018 in Metallurgical Engineering. Coury serves as one of the coordinators of the Structural Characterization Laboratory at UFSCar. His main research interests currently are high entropy alloys, superalloys, transmission electron microscopy and mechanical properties of metallic materials.
Amy J. Clarke
Colorado School of Mines
Amy J. Clarke is a Professor and John Henry Moore Endowed Chair of Metallurgy, Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys, and faculty member with the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center in the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She holds joint appointments with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research focuses on physical metallurgy and making, measuring, and modeling of metallic alloys during processing to realize advanced manufacturing. Amy has served on TMS and Association for Iron & Steel Technology Boards of Directors. She is also an Editor for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. She has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the U.S. government, is a TMS Brimacombe Medalist, and a Fellow of ASM International.
Kester Clarke
Colorado School of Mines
Kester Clarke is an assistant professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) in Golden, Colorado, and serves as the Forging Industry Education and Research Foundation (FIERF) Professor. He also engages in research on deformation processes in metal alloys with the university’s Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys and the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. His research interests include alloy development, material deformation and fabrication processes, and the use of experimental and modeling methods to examine the effect of material processing history and microstructure on mechanical properties and performance. Clarke’s experiences prior to this include consulting metallurgical engineer for Engel Metallurgical, senior engineer for Caterpillar, and postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is also a visiting scientist.
Clarke is currently serving on the Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s (AIST) Board of Directors and is the Chair for the TMS Shaping and Forming Committee and is the past chair of the AIST Metallurgy- Processing, Products and Applications Technology Committee. He received a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University, a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Wayne State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical and materials engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Kevin J. Laws
The University of New South Wales
Kevin Laws earned his Ph.D. from The University of New South Wales (UNSW), with postdoctoral postings at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and US Air Force Research Laboratories/Ohio State University. His research is focused on the fundamental design, development and application of novel, advanced alloys. His current research programs are both exploratory and application-focused in the areas of high-entropy or complex concentrated alloys and amorphous alloys.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at UNSW, director of UNSW’s Physical Metallurgy and Metallography Laboratories and leads UNSW’s Metal Physics and Advanced Alloy Research Team. He is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and his research is subject of over 50 feature articles or other public media releases. He holds multiple patents in the area of high entropy alloys and is founder, director and chief scientist of Advanced Alloy Holdings Pty. Ltd., who commercialize his alloy technologies.
John Lewandowski
Case Western Reserve
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.
John “Hunter” Martin
HRL Laboratories
John “Hunter” Martin is the lead metallurgist and a research staff member in the Materials and Microsystems Laboratory at HRL Laboratories and director and co-founder of HRL’s Center for Additive Materials (CAM). Martin received a B.Sc. in materials science and engineering from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara in collaboration with Tresa Pollock. His research focuses on the physics of nucleation and growth in metal alloy systems and has led multiple internal development programs focused on development of new metal alloys for additive manufacturing. Martin currently has active research programs in adjacent research areas, including the development and commercialization of new powder metallurgy technologies for industry (General Motors and Boeing) and U.S. Government agencies.
Elizabeth Opila
University of Virginia
Elizabeth Opila is the Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center for Advanced Materials Systems at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she has been since 2010. Her current research focus includes understanding thermodynamic and kinetic mechanisms for material degradation in extreme environments, development of life prediction methodology based on understanding of fundamental high temperature chemical reaction mechanisms, and materials development for protection of materials from extreme environments. Opila received her B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois, her M.S. in Materials Science from the University of California Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Electrochemical Society and recipient of the 2021 American Ceramic Society’s Arthur L. Friedberg Award. She has over 130 publications and is coinventor on six patents.
Noah Philips
ATI Specialty Alloys and Components
Noah Philips is a Principal Research Metallurgist at ATI where he leads the development of refractory alloys and their production processes. He is an expert at aluminothermic reduction, additive manufacturing, and powder synthesis of reactive refractory metals. His current work is focused on the development of high-performance refractory alloys for hypersonic flight and space access as well as manufacturing methods for rapid evaluation and scale up of difficult to process alloys. His interests include the translation of academic research to industrial practice and the abstraction of foundational problems from commercially relevant application challenges.
John R. Scully
University of Virginia
John Scully is the Charles Henderson Named Professor, Head of the Material Science and Engineering Department and the Co-director of the Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, USA. Scully’s field of research is corrosion often focusing on circumstances where metallurgy and composition are important governing factors. His research and educational efforts integrate materials science, corrosion-electrochemistry and surface science. He combines a variety of complementary characterization methods and, also, collaborates with computational modelers to understand corrosion processes across a range of length and time scales. He is the Technical Editor in Chief of CORROSION, The Journal of Science and Engineering.
John Sharon
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
John Sharon is an Associate Director at Raytheon Technologies Research Center (RTRC). Sharon’s research experience includes the areas of metallurgy, mechanical engineering, and materials science to understand structure-property relationships and the effects of processing and environmental factors for the development of novel material systems for aerospace and defense applications. John received a B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2006 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2008 and 2011 from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining RTRC, John conducted post-doctoral research at Sandia National Laboratories.
Taylor Sparks
University of Utah
Taylor Sparks is an associate professor and associate chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Utah. He is originally from Utah and an alumna of the department where he teaches. Before graduate school, he worked at Ceramatec, Inc. He did his M.S. in materials at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard University and then did a postdoc in the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB. He is currently the director of the ReUSE NSF REU Site at the University of Utah and teaches classes on ceramics, materials science, characterization, and technology commercialization. His current research centers on the discovery, synthesis, characterization, and properties of new materials for energy applications. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of materials informatics whereby big data, data mining, and machine learning are leveraged to solve challenges in materials science. When he’s not in the lab you can find him running his podcast “Materialism” or canyoneering with his four kids in southern Utah.
Mitra Taheri
Johns Hopkins University
Mitra Taheri is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, director of the Materials Characterization and Processing facility, and a member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute.
Her research focuses mainly on electron microscopy and specifically in-situ microscopy. Taheri’s team designs and builds platforms to study materials in different, often extreme, environments including high temperatures, stress, radiation, oxidation, and more. Her team also develops new ways of detecting what is being seen through the microscope faster and in more efficient ways through integrating artificial intelligence. Taheri hopes this integration will improve not only researchers’ understanding of materials processes, but how new materials can be built for the next generation of applications. She earned her B.S., M.S.E., and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
C. Cem Tasan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cem Tasan explores the boundaries of physical metallurgy, solid mechanics, and in-situ microscopy, in order to design new alloys with exceptional damage-resistance. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics of Materials from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Following postdoctoral work at Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany, he was appointed as a Group Leader there, leading the Adaptive Structural Materials group until joining MIT in 2016.
His group at MIT mainly focuses on (i) developing new in-situ characterization tools and methods, (ii) improving the physical understanding of transformation, deformation, damage micro-mechanisms in metallic materials; (iii) designing damage-resistant microstructures and alloys.
Michael S. Titus
Purdue University
Michael Titus joined the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in December 2016. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Physics (The Ohio State University, 2010) and Ph.D. in Materials (University of California Santa Barbara, 2015). From 2015 to 2016 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Dusseldorf, Germany. Titus is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2018), and many professional society awards including the TMS-JIM Young Leaders International Scholar (2020), and the ASM Bradley-Stoughton Award for Young Teachers (2021). He has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications. His current research interests include the accelerated discovery and development of structural alloys via high-throughput experiments and thermodynamic calculations, solute interactions with crystalline defects, process modeling and optimization - particularly related to casting and heat treatment of high temperature alloys, and advanced characterization of alloys and surfaces.
Celine Varvenne
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille
Celine Varvenne has been a CNRS research scientist at CINaM Laboratory at Aix-Marseille University since 2016. She received a Ph.D. in physics of materials from the University Pierre and Marie-Curie in Paris, France, and then did two postdoctoral stays at CEA Saclay and EPFL in Switzerland. Her research interests are in the area of atomic scale study of point defects and irradiation defects, elasticity modelling of defects, and development of simple models to describe mechanical properties of concentrated alloys like high entropy alloys.
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