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Society Awards
View this calendar year’s recipients of TMS awards, managed through volunteer administrative committees, to recognize notable contributions to the field and pinnacle career achievements.
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2023 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Tetsuya Hirade
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Title: Chief Researcher
Affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Quote: This is one of the most influential materials science societies worldwide, and receiving their award for the research of the hydrogen-enhanced defects performed by our methods means a lot to me.
Other: "Hydrogen Desorption Spectra from Excess Vacancy-Type Defects Enhanced by Hydrogen in Tempered Martensitic Steel Showing Quasi-cleavage Fracture", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, November 2019
2023 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Kei Saito
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Sophia University
Quote: I am extremely honored to share this award with a team of great professionals that I deeply admire. I gave my first steps in the world of materials science with this project, and it could not have been a better academic or personal experience. It is therefore exceptionally rewarding to receive this recognition for the work that first inspired my curiosity for metallurgy and materials research.
Other: "Hydrogen Desorption Spectra from Excess Vacancy-Type Defects Enhanced by Hydrogen in Tempered Martensitic Steel Showing Quasi-cleavage Fracture", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, November 2019
2023 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Kenichi Takai
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Sophia University
Quote: It is my great honor to receive the AIME Champion H. Matheson Award for our research on the fundamental importance in understanding the relationship between vacancies and hydrogen embrittlement of high-strength steel. This award will accelerate and contribute to technological developments of high-strength steels.
Other: "Hydrogen Desorption Spectra from Excess Vacancy-Type Defects Enhanced by Hydrogen in Tempered Martensitic Steel Showing Quasi-cleavage Fracture", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, November 2019
2023 AIME Honorary Membership Award
John Allison
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Title: William F. Hosford Collegiate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Quote: I am deeply honored to become an AIME honorary member. To join the ranks of previous awardees, is humbling indeed.
Citation: For his distinguished service to TMS/AIME and outstanding research achievements in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering of structural light-weight metallic alloys.
2023 AIME Honorary Membership Award
Patrice Turchi
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Title: Retired Senior Physicist
Affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Quote: I am humbled by the honor bestowed by AIME and my colleagues at TMS, and grateful to have my name included in the list of those who were presented with the AIME Honorary Membership Award since 1872. By every measure, it is easy to recognize that TMS remains the Society of choice that spans from extraction to recycling with all the scientific and engineering science in between, as I have said for more than 30 years now. I am also proud of being part of the historical AIME society to which TMS belongs and remain very attached to what these professional scientific societies have to offer to us as a community of scientists and engineers and will continue to do my best to honor what this award really means to spearhead and promote the activities the TMS Foundation has to offer to new generations of scientists and engineers.
Citation: For outstanding and pioneering contributions in alloy theory with applications to stability, ordering, transformations, and for his invaluable service, leadership, and devotion to the Institution.
2023 Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award
Joy Forsmark
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Title: Technical Expert
Affiliation: Ford Motor Company
Quote: It is a great honor to receive the Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award for my service at TMS. Throughout my career in Materials Science, TMS membership and service has provided me with opportunities for valuable experiences, professional growth, and amazing interactions with talented students, researchers, and leaders in the field. I truly feel that I have received far more from my activities than the time I have put in and look forward to continuing to serve the society in its mission to advance and support the field of materials science and engineering.
Citation: For thoughtful, dedicated and self-less service and for her leadership on important initiatives that have had pervasive impacts on TMS.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Simona Hunyadi Murph
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Title: Technical Analyst & Fellow Scientist
Affiliation: Department of Energy & Savannah River National Laboratory
Quote: It is a tremendous honor to be selected as a Brimacombe Medalist and forever join the outstanding past recipients which have set the standard for technical and scientific excellence. TMS has a special place in my heart, as it has offered unparalleled opportunities for professional, technical, and leadership growth. This award will continue to guide and inspire scientists, as we pay it forward and continue to serve.
Citation: For cutting-edge scientific and engineering innovation of anisotropic and shape-selective nanomaterials, extraordinary effort in developing the next generation of leaders and dedicated service to TMS.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Nathan Mara
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Quote: I am grateful that TMS continues to provide me with opportunities to learn from experts in my field, and has been instrumental in progressing from University student to National Lab staff member to University Professor. It is humbling to accept this award and be counted amongst past and present recipients that I consider to be the best of the best. I look forward to continuing to contribute to the ongoing success of the Society and our membership!
Citation: For excellence in serving the TMS community and scientific advancements in nanomechanical behavior including the link between interfaces and defects.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Emmanuelle Marquis
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Quote: I am humbled and honored to have been selected to join a long list of truly amazing colleagues as a Brimacombe Medalist. I am grateful to friends, colleagues, students who have mentored and supported me throughout my career so far and from whom I continue to learn. I look forward to continuing my professional journey within the field while promoting, supporting, and advocating for others within TMS and beyond.
Citation: For excellence in characterization of high temperature and nuclear materials. Professor Marquis advanced our understanding of microstructure evolution while furthering the development of analytic methods.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Radhakanta Rana
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Title: Principal Researcher
Affiliation: Tata Steel
Quote: I am truly honored to receive the Brimacombe Medalist Award from TMS. TMS is an excellent professional society that nurtures young talents and prepares a fertile ground for the professional growth of scientists, engineers, and academics by providing with opportunities for exchange of ideas in their conferences, publications, networking, and service to the profession. I am grateful to be a member of TMS which has a vibrant professional community.
Citation: In recognition of significant contributions to the science and technology of high-strength automotive steels, and service to the professional community.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Izabela Szlufarska
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Quote: I have a life-time membership in TMS and I consider this society to be my core community. I am deeply honored to receive the TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award. I look forward to being part of TMS's far reaching and impactful work for many years to come.
Citation: For fundamental breakthroughs bridging the gap between atomistic simulations and nanoscale experiments, as well service leadership in research directions, information dissemination, and materials education.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Kinga Unocic
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Title: Senior R&D Staff Scientist
Affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Quote: I am very delighted and honored to receive the J. Keith Brimacombe Medalists recognition. Being a part of TMS throughout my entire materials research career has provided me unique opportunity for professional growth and has allowed me to help shape the future of TMS through society leadership opportunities and mentorship of next generation materials scientists and engineers. I would like to thank all my colleagues, mentors, supervisors, students, friends, and particularly my husband and kids for their understanding and support, for allowing me to develop and progress throughout this amazing journey.
Citation: For her outstanding dedication to ensuring diversity and inclusion within the scientific community and exceptional mentoring of early career scientists.
2023 Brimacombe Medalist
Jian Wang
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Quote: TMS is a vibrant community of scientists and engineers at the frontiers of materials research and development. I am humbled and honored to join the long list of amazing scientists and engineers to be named J. Keith Brimacombe Medalists. I am especially grateful to all those who mentored, supported, and encouraged me throughout my career. I look forward to continuing active engagement with TMS in the years to come.
Citation: For outstanding service to TMS and the contributions to fundamental understandings on mechanical behaviors of nanostructured metallic materials and HCP metals.
2023 Bruce Chalmers Award
Narendra Dahotre
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Title: Regents Professor & Associate Vice President
Affiliation: The University of North Texas
Quote: It is a great honor to have been chosen for 2023 Bruce Chalmers Award. Bruce Chalmers’ work on fundamental of solidification in general and constitutional supercooling in particular remained important aspects of my research on laser-materials interaction and its implementation in laser-based materials processing and advanced manufacturing throughout my graduate work followed by the academic career. Especially, it continues to remain a key element of fundamental understanding of material microstructure (grain and phase) evolution under far from equilibrium thermo-kinetic conditions evolved during laser-based material processing/manufacturing. I thank TMS for recognizing the fundamental contributions of Bruce Chalmers to solidification metallurgy and continued work in the field by others through this award. This honor was made possible by the contributions of my students, research fellows, and collaborators, and therefore this award belongs to all of us.
Citation: For pioneering contributions to understanding and engineering of laser-materials interactions and implementation of high power lasers for materials processing/manufacturing, surface engineering and additive manufacturing.
2023 Cyril Stanley Smith Award
Kristin Persson
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Title: Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliation: UC Berkeley
Quote: I am deeply honored to receive the Cyril Stanley Smith Award. I like to imagine that Professor Smith would have appreciated ‘at-your-fingertips’ access to systematic, quantitative materials data, as he examined archeological artifacts and art work from all over the world. I am also intensely grateful to the TMS for their tireless support of fundamental materials science and metallurgy.
Citation: For pioneering contributions to data production and dissemination, advancing data-driven science of materials structure and its link to properties for materials discovery and design.
2023 Ellen Swallow Richards Diversity Award
Grace Jiinliu Wang
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Title: Executive Vice President
Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Quote: It is my great honor to receive the Ellen Swallow Richards Diversity Award. For decades, TMS has been connecting minerals, metals, and materials scientists and engineers from various backgrounds and walks of life, promoting diversity, inclusion, and paving the ways for many to pursue careers in our fields.
Citation: For her persistent efforts and leadership to broaden participation in materials science and engineering and beyond.
2023 Fellow Award
Irene Beyerlein
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of California Santa Barbara
Quote: TMS has played a vital role in my professional career from the very beginning. It is because of the impactful, multiple ways in which TMS promotes excellence across the full professional spectrum, such that anyone may thrive, that I am extremely delighted and honored to be named one of its Fellows.
Citation: For seminal contributions to multi-scale modeling of deformation of polycrystalline metals, severe plastic deformation and interface-driven plasticity.
2023 Fellow Award
Julie Christodoulou
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Title: Principal
Affiliation: Materials & Manufacturing Innovations, LLC
Quote: TMS provides a platform for great ideas across our practice to be introduced and strengthened in a rich community of diverse perspectives. It is a source for inspiration and innovation that improves our research and research products, and a space to meet new colleagues and to connect with colleagues who become dear friends. With the greatest respect for the TMS community and the incomparable list of Fellows who have shared this honor, I am deeply humbled.
Citation: For boldly envisioning, leading, and resourcing the digital transformation of materials science; for executive US Department of Defense leadership in materials integration technologies; and for being a truly inspirational role model.
2023 Fellow Award
David Furrer
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Title: Senior Fellow Discipline Lead
Affiliation: Pratt & Whitney
Quote: I am extremely honored to have been nominated for the award of TMS Fellow, and am even more honored and excited to have been selected. To be recognized is a truly humbling experience. I look forward to continued involvement and growth of our technical community.
Citation: For his efforts to champion, develop and implement data curation, analytics, and computational tools and methods for materials and manufacturing process design and control.
2023 Fellow Award
Alan Luo
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Quote: I am incredibly honored and humbled by the TMS Fellow Award and very grateful for the support and contributions from my students and post-doctoral researchers at The Ohio State University and my former colleagues at General Motors. I also acknowledge TMS for being my professional home where I have enjoyed many collaborations and friendships with numerous mentors and colleagues from industry and academia. This award also gives me an opportunity to thank my family and especially my wife for the greatest support to my hard work. I will strive to devote my best efforts to educate young engineers and innovate with them in materials science and processing technologies.
Citation: For outstanding research and industrial implementation of lightweight alloys and manufacturing processes, innovative teaching and sustained service in materials processing technologies.
2023 Fellow Award
En (Evan) Ma
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Xi'an Jiaotong University
Quote: I am thrilled to be named a TMS Fellow, the pinnacle award of the Society. It is such an honor to be recognized by my peers to join this distinguished group, one of the most selective in the world of materials science. I am deeply and forever thankful to TMS, and I owe this achievement to the talented students and collaborators I have worked with, for their tremendous contributions over the years.
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of the structure in amorphous and nanostructured alloys that has led to several improved properties of these metastable materials.
2023 Fellow Award
Ramana G. Reddy
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Title: ACIPCO Endowed Professor
Affiliation: University of Alabama
Quote: "I am honored and humbled to receive this TMS Fellow Award. I am honored to be among those distinguished prior recipients of this Award. I love teaching students and collaborating with researchers from all over the world. TMS is one of the most vibrant materials societies in the world. I am very pleased to be a member of it. TMS has played a significant role in my professional growth and providing the opportunities to develop contacts with friends, and materials and engineering professionals worldwide."
Citation: For pioneering research contributions in thermodynamics and phase equilibria, the development of new energy efficient technologies for extraction and processing of materials, and his excellent contributions to engineering education and professionals development in the field of metallurgical and materials science and engineering.
2023 Fellow Award
James Warren
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Title: Director, Materials Genome Program
Affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Quote: I first learned the nature of this extraordinary honor when my mentor and colleague Bill Boettinger became a TMS Fellow, and I am truly humbled to enter these ranks. The TMS is my career “home,” and I cannot imagine any recognition more meaningful. I believe my best days as a TMS member still lie in front of me, and I look forward to engaging with my many colleagues through the diverse forums the Society provides.
Citation: For seminal work in use of phase field models of materials phenomena and exceptional international leadership in materials research policy.
2023 Fellow Award
Ji-Cheng (JC) Zhao
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Title: Minta Martin Professor and Department Chair
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Quote: TMS Fellows are a group of distinguished scholars who have cemented the foundation for metals science and technology over the decades. I admired them and aspired to join their ranks; and being finally named a TMS Fellow is incredibly humbling and gratifying. I cherish this award and regard it as one of the highest honors of my career. TMS is my “home” professional society through which I met many wonderful colleagues and mentors who shaped my career. I am wholeheartedly grateful to my students, collaborators, mentors, and colleagues for their contributions to the research that led to this award. Thank you all.
Citation: For contributions to high-throughput research and diffusion studies in metals and early implementation of computational alloy design in turbine industry leading to high-impact alloy deployment.
2023 Frank Crossley Diversity Award
Jenifer Locke
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Quote: Being awarded the Frank Crossley Diversity Award serves as a reminder that my resilience, ever present energy and smile, hard work, persistence, and tenacity, even when told I shouldn’t, or couldn’t, or wouldn’t, not only served me well, but has been recognized and appreciated by those around me. I hope this award can help another have the strength to not settle for what is expected or recommended by others based on any facet of their identity, but to push onward towards their own personal goal, even when they don’t know if it is achievable for a person like them. One might find, like me, that they can come out the other side achieving what seemed impossibly difficult and still smiling. I’d like to thank TMS and the TMS Foundation for being unique in that they provide and cultivate an environment that continuously strives to improve and always focuses on becoming more inclusive, equitable, and welcoming. There are many societies one can choose to volunteer in, I choose TMS because it has created a space where I feel welcomed, supported, and championed for all facets of myself. TMS not only allows me to share my technical work and thinking, but also bring my whole self and help them work to create a better community for the future.
Citation: A rising leader and a shining example that tenacity, humility, and hard work can realize extreme success despite economic, social, family, or institutional roadblocks.
2023 Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award
Carl Koch
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Citation: For pioneering and seminal contributions and leadership on the non-equilibrium processing, structure, and properties of amorphous and nanostructured materials.
Other: Title of lecture: "Metallurgical Engineering to Materials Science and Engineering: Evolution of a Profession and TMS"
2023 Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
Peter Anderson
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Quote: TMS has been and continues to be a critical enriching part of my professional life. It's an honor to be recognized by this award, in particular because I benefited from many insightful conversations with Julia and Johannes Weertman on the subjects of nano crystalline metals, dislocation theory, and materials education. Their contributions as scholars and educators are inspirational.
Citation: For his authorship of textbook, innovations in education pedagogy, mentoring of academic-track doctoral students and increasing diversity in academic metallurgy and materials science programs.
2023 Leadership Award
Lynnette Madsen
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Title: Visiting Professor/Scholar, Program Director
Affiliation: Cornell University, National Science Foundation
Quote: TMS is a dynamic society, which moves quickly to address exciting and important topics such as equitable and inclusive engagement, and the evolving needs in basic and translational research. I am deeply honored to be selected for this award.
Citation: For visionary and accomplished leadership in advancing fundamental research and promoting research integrity.
2023 Morris Cohen Award
Oleg N. Senkov
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Title: Director of Alloy Development
Affiliation: MRL Materials Resources, LLC
Quote: I am grateful to the Morris Cohen Award nomination committee for recognizing my contributions to the science and technology of materials properties. I am deeply honored and thrilled to receive this prestigious TMS award and to join the company of prior recipients whom I so admire and respect. I am proud to be a member of TMS, a society that has consistently provided me with opportunities for networking, information exchange and professional growth. I am sharing this award with all my mentors and collaborators.
Citation: For pioneering in the discovery and development of refractory high entropy alloys and refractory complex concentrated alloys and fundamental understanding their properties.
2023 Research to Industrial Practice Award
Alan Luo
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Quote: I am deeply honored to receive the Application to Industrial Practice Award from my peers at TMS. As a materials scientist and engineer, I have always believed that the best scientific research should lead to real-world applications. I am thankful for my students, colleagues, and collaborators who helped me achieve these innovations. I also feel fortunate to be associated with TMS during my industrial and academic career. The TMS community has always been a source of scientific knowledge and endless inspiration for innovations.
Citation: For outstanding research and practical contributions to light metals technology and industrial applications.
2023 Sadoway Materials Innovation and Advocacy Award
David Danielson
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Title: Managing Director
Affiliation: Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Quote: It is a tremendous honor to be selected as the awardee of the Sadoway Materials Innovation and Advocacy Award. Don has been a life long mentor and role model for me going back to my days as a Ph.D. student at MIT. He has led the charge in the fight against climate change and inspired a whole generation of materials scientists to follow him... and he has done it in style.
Citation: For leadership, strategic vision, execution, and championing of solutions to sustainability and decarbonization utilizing materials science and engineering technology via entrepreneurship and government policy.
2023 William D. Nix Award
Eduard Arzt
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Title: Scientific Director
Affiliation: INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Quote: TMS is a materials society with a strong international perspective and high visibility that extends to Europe. I am very honored to receive the award named after William D. Nix, an outstanding leader of the field of materials science over many decades, who is renowned for scientific excellence, international cooperation and friendship, and supportive mentoring of young scientists worldwide.
Citation: For pioneering contributions to our understanding of such diverse phenomena as high temperature creep, size effects, and biological and bio-inspired adhesion, and for communicating these insights through inspirational lectures and publications.
Other: Title of lecture: “From Bioinspiration to Machine Learning—a New Concept for Object Manipulation”
2023 William Hume-Rothery Award
Gerbrand Ceder
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For seminal contributions to theory and predictive computational methods for complex multicomponent alloys and ceramic solid solutions, and pioneering advances for ab-initio materials design.
Other: Title of lecture: “Ab Initio Thermodynamics and Kinetics from Alloys to Complex Oxides"
Division Awards
View this calendar year’s recipients of TMS awards managed through the TMS technical divisions— Extraction & Processing (EPD), Functional Materials (FMD), Light Metals (LMD), Materials Processing & Manufacturing (MPMD), and Structural Materials (SMD).
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2023 EPD Distinguished Lecturer Award
Carole Brierley
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Brierley Consultancy LLC
Citation: For her pioneering research and innovative contributions to applications in bioleaching and metals remediation as well as for service and leadership in science and technology.
Other: Title of lecture: "New Directions for Biotechnology Practices in Metals Extraction"
2023 EPD Distinguished Service Award
Mark E. Schlesinger
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Title: Professor Emeritus of Metallurgical Engineering
Affiliation: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Quote: In a world where extractive metallurgists can often feel like the white rhinos of academia, my membership in TMS has given me the chance to be part of the global extractive community and make life-long friends. My service to EPD has been a contribution to that community and to the significance of extractive metallurgy within TMS. Recognition by my peers of this service is deeply gratifying.
Citation: Mark has made an outstanding contribution to extractive metallurgy, writing excellent textbooks, making significant contributions in pyrometallurgical research, and organizing TMS conferences and events.
2023 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - Second Place
Katherine Acord
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Title: Materials Engineer
Affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory
Quote: It is a honor to receive this award! I participated in this research effort as Leanna Hao's graduate student mentor during my Ph.D. at the University of California - Irvine. It was a pleasure to see Leanna dig into the world of materials science and further our understanding of materials vaporization as it relates to ceramic laser-based additive manufacturing. I am incredibly proud to see the impact and recognition of our work as a team.
Other: "Influence of Laser Scan Speed on the Diffusion and Vaporization of a Solid-state Electrolyte Produced Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion"
2023 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - Second Place
Leanna Hao
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Title: Undergraduate Researcher
Affiliation: University of California - Irvine
Quote: This is very exciting for me as this is my first time presenting my findings to a larger audience than to others at my university. The TMS conference is a way to explore the cutting edge research being done in materials science and what is currently a focus in the field.
Other: "Influence of Laser Scan Speed on the Diffusion and Vaporization of a Solid-state Electrolyte Produced Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion"
2023 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - Second Place
Julie Schoenung
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Title: Professor and Chair
Affiliation: University of California - Irvine
Quote: I am very honored that my students, Leanna Hao and Katherine Acord, are being acknowledged for their research, as presented in this poster. Leanne was an honors student in materials science and engineering at UCI, and Katherine, while a PhD student, was her mentor. They were a great team, and I am very proud of them!
Other: "Influence of Laser Scan Speed on the Diffusion and Vaporization of a Solid-state Electrolyte Produced Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion"
2023 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - Third Place
Pragna Bhaskar
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Title: Graduate Research Assistant
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology
Quote: We thank the organizers for the award. It encourages us to work in the interdisciplinary field of computer vision and its application in materials characterization. Attending TMS conferences is a great way to stay updated in the various aspects of materials science. TMS foundation brings students, faculty and industry working in the field of materials science together.
Other: "Computer Vision for Microvia Characterization"
2023 EPD Pyrometallurgy Best Paper Award
Bernd Friedrich
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: IME Metallurgical Process Engineering and Metal Recycling, RWTH Aachen University
Quote: Thanks to the TMS for awarding our paper on substituting fossil carbon for Ferroalloy production! It motivates us to continue this field of research. The necessary technology transformation towards environmentally sound metallurgy requires strong attention from all stakeholders in this area.
Other: "Toward Green Ferroalloys: Replacement of Fossil Reductants in the Pre-reduction Process of Chromite by Bio-Based Alternatives", REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (Volume I)
2023 EPD Pyrometallurgy Best Paper Award
Marcus Sommerfeld
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Title: Scientific Engineer
Affiliation: IME Metallurgical Process Engineering and Metal Recycling, RWTH Aachen University
Quote: The paper presented my first results about decarbonizing the production of ferrochrome. The TMS best paper award encourages me to continue my research on the decarbonization of metallurgical processes and is a great honor for me. I’d like to thank my colleagues and student assistants who supported me and also the committee for selecting this paper.
Other: "Toward Green Ferroalloys: Replacement of Fossil Reductants in the Pre-reduction Process of Chromite by Bio-Based Alternatives", REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (Volume I)
2023 EPD Science Award
Cong Wang
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Quote: I, together with team members and collaborators, are thrilled upon receiving the prestigious EPD Science Award, a unique distinction lasting for more than 50 years dedicated to the process metallurgy community. We feel immensely honored as our work, published primarily on Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, on structures, physical properties and fundamental thermodynamics of welding fluxes, is gaining focal recognition among peers. We hope outcomes derived from our work could advance technological development integrating steelmaking and welding metallurgy.
Citation: For seminal contributions to advancing the understanding of microstructure, physical properties and pertinent thermodynamics of welding fluxes subject to high heat input applications.
2023 EPD Technology Award
Yuxiang Peng
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Title: Post doctor
Affiliation: Brookhaven National Lab
Quote: This is a proud and fortunate moment for me to receive this award. Thanks a lot for your appreciation. This award is like a step to climb the higher mountain in my research life.
Other: "Potentiostatic Electrodeposition of Ti–Al Alloy with 40% Titanium from the Lewis Acidic 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride-Aluminum Chloride Ionic Liquid Electrolyte", TMS 2022 151st Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings
2023 EPD Technology Award
Ramana G. Reddy
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Alabama
Quote: We are honored and humbled to receive this 2022 EPD Technology Award. TMS is one of the most vibrant materials societies in the world. I am very pleased to be a member of it.
Other: "Potentiostatic Electrodeposition of Ti–Al Alloy with 40% Titanium from the Lewis Acidic 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride-Aluminum Chloride Ionic Liquid Electrolyte", TMS 2022 151st Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings
2023 EPD Technology Award
Pravin Shinde
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Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: The University of Alabama
Quote: I am deeply honored to receive the TMS EPD Technology award from TMS, one of the most prestigious materials societies in the world. I am very grateful to the TMS Foundation for recognizing our hard work based on cost-effective electrochemical extraction of 40% titanium. TMS has indeed helped me build an active collaborative network for exchanging motivational thoughts and ideas from several great minds, thereby advancing my academic and professional research career to the next level.
Other: "Potentiostatic Electrodeposition of Ti–Al Alloy with 40% Titanium from the Lewis Acidic 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride-Aluminum Chloride Ionic Liquid Electrolyte", TMS 2022 151st Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings
2023 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Sri Harjanto
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Universitas Indonesia
Quote: I am very happy and grateful for this award. This encourages us to work and contribute better in the society.
Other: "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Carbothermic Reduction of Weathered Ilmenite Using Palm Kernel Shell Biomass", Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, December 2021
2023 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Mark Pownceby
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Title: Senior Principal Research Scientist
Affiliation: CSIRO Mineral Resources
Quote: The work is great example of a successful collaboration between Swinburne, Universitas Indonesia and CSIRO. It is very humbling that the work has been recognized by TMS, a major global professional association that connects minerals, metals, and materials scientists and engineers who work in industry, academia, and government positions around the world.
Other: "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Carbothermic Reduction of Weathered Ilmenite Using Palm Kernel Shell Biomass", Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, December 2021
2023 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
M. Akbar Rhamdhani
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Title: Professor; Director of Fluid and Process Dynamics Group
Affiliation: Swinburne University of Technology
Quote: I am honored and humbled that our work is recognized by the TMS and the community; and to receive the EPD/LMD J Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award. I hope that the work in the paper will stimulate work in the area. My sincere thank you goes to my research colleagues and collaborators for the great teamwork and support.
Other: "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Carbothermic Reduction of Weathered Ilmenite Using Palm Kernel Shell Biomass", Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, December 2021
2023 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Agung Setiawan
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Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Affiliation: National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
Quote: I am proud to achieve this prestigious award; it means a lot as a researcher in my early career. Hopefully, it can be an inspiration and motivation for me to give contribution of science and research to the society
Other: "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Carbothermic Reduction of Weathered Ilmenite Using Palm Kernel Shell Biomass", Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, December 2021
2023 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Nathan Webster
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Title: Dr.
Affiliation: CSIRO Mineral Resources
Quote: I am very pleased to accept this award as part of an exciting collaboration with Swinburne University and the University of Indonesia.
Other: "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Carbothermic Reduction of Weathered Ilmenite Using Palm Kernel Shell Biomass", Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, December 2021
2023 FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Candan Tamerler
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Title: Spahr Professor
Affiliation: University of Kansas
Quote: I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award. TMS has been my society, so much so that I hardly missed any meetings! I am grateful to the Award Committee, my colleagues, and especially for my research team and students.
Citation: For her outstanding contributions for integrating biological mechanisms into biomimetic design of multifunctional hybrid materials.
2023 FMD Distinguished Service Award
Kalpana Katti
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Title: University distinguished professor
Affiliation: North Dakota State University
Quote: Organizing symposia and working for the Biomaterials Committee at TMS has been a great highlight of my career primarily due to the opportunity to work with fabulous researchers in biological materials science. The intellectual interactions and discourses that have always happened at the TMS meeting has been stimulating and invigorating. I hope to continue to engage in more ventures at TMS in the coming years.
Citation: For distinguished service towards TMS FMD through engaging, promoting, and growing the biomaterials and biological materials science areas within TMS
2023 FMD John Bardeen Award
Junqiao Wu
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Title: Chancellor's Professor
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Quote: I feel extremely humbled to receive the award named after John Bardeen, a giant in science that I have been looking up to since middle school. It is a special honor to be on a list of awardees that includes so many great figures in our fields! I would like to thank my advisors, collaborators, students and postdocs over the years who have made this possible.
Citation: For his pioneering research in narrow-gap nitride semiconductors, semiconductor alloys, layered semiconductors, and vanadium dioxide.
2023 Light Metals Award
Antoine Allanore
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other: "Aluminothermic Reduction of Sulfides via Reactive Vacuum Distillation", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Award
Caspar Stinn
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Title: Doctoral Candidate
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: I feel very honored to be recognized with this award by TMS. As a graduate student, I learn so much at TMS meetings from the valuable insight, creativity, and wisdom of those around me. I really appreciate the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful professional community.
Other: "Aluminothermic Reduction of Sulfides via Reactive Vacuum Distillation", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Award
Spencer Toll
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Title: Battery Engineer
Affiliation: Avanti Battery Company
Quote: I couldn't be happier to have had this opportunity to work along side Caspar and Antoine. This award sets in stone an unforgettable time with some of the best companionship imaginable.
Other: "Aluminothermic Reduction of Sulfides via Reactive Vacuum Distillation", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Subject Award - Alumina/Bauxite
Edgar Gasafi
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Title: Senior Product Manager
Affiliation: Metso Outotec GmbH
Quote: This award is an encouraging recognition for our contribution towards finding sustainable solutions for the alumina industry. It inspires us to continue pursuing this ambitious path for green alumina production.
Other: "Green Alumina: A Technological Roadmap", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Subject Award - Alumina/Bauxite
Alessio Scarsella
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Title: Director Light Metals
Affiliation: Metso Outotec
Quote: I would like to thank TMS for providing the opportunity to publish this subject matter. The role that heavy industry plays in mitigating global warming is paramount and it is important that organizations from individual industries, have the necessary platform to voice their progress.
Other: "Green Alumina: A Technological Roadmap", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Randy Beals
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Title: Global Engineering Specialist
Affiliation: Magna
Quote: It’s a huge honor to accept this award on behalf of Magna, for the development of the latest innovation in aluminum die cast alloy development for structural automotive applications. The development of this alloy took a lot of hard work and but is rewarding to bring the benefits of this new material the die casting industry. I would also like to thank the TMS Light Metals Division Award Committee and the Aluminum Committee for recognizing our paper with this prestigious award. I am humbled and appreciative.
Other: "Development of Advanced Aluminum Alloy for Structural Castings", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Xiaoping Niu
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Title: Chief Metallurgist
Affiliation: Promatek Research Center, Cosma R&D
Quote: I really appreciate the TMS Light Metals Division Award Committee and the Aluminium Committee for this prestigious award. I am deeply encouraged by the recognition for our further innovation and development of new aluminum alloys for automotive applications.
Other: "Development of Advanced Aluminum Alloy for Structural Castings", Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Reduction Technology
Xiangwen Wang
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Title: Retired
Affiliation: Alcoa Corp
Quote: It is a great honor to accept this prestigious award! I am so glad that TMS has provided this platform for scientists and engineers to present and exchange their research results and ideas.
Other: “Preparation of Aluminum Master Alloys by Electrolytic Co-deposition in Hall-Héroult Cells”, Light Metals 2022
2023 Light Metals Subject Award - Electrode Technology for Aluminum Production
Gøril Jahrsengene
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Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: SINTEF
Quote: The award represents recognition from the TMS family that results achieved by collaborating between research institutes, universities and industries are appreciated and relevant.
Other: "Optical and Electrochemical Characterization of Carbon Anodes with Varying Porosity and Coke Quality", Light Metals 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Paloma Adeva
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Title: Research Professor
Affiliation: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Quote: As the leader of the Cenim-CSIC group, I feel very satisfied with the researchers in my group. I am also very proud that the interest in our studies on magnesium alloys has been recognized outside of our country, since it is a line of research that we started more than 25 years ago.
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Gerardo Garces
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Title: Tenured Scientist
Affiliation: CENIM-CSIC
Quote: It is a great honor to receive this award from The Light Metals Division. It is an incredible recognition and encouragement to continue working on the development and study of new magnesium alloys.
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Shae K. Kim
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
Quote: As a lifetime member of TMS, TMS is the foremost lifetime input for my light metals research and network.
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Hyun Kyu Lim
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Title: Principal Researcher
Affiliation: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
Quote: This award has the same meaning as nutritional supplements to me. It is because it gives me new energy when I am tired of research. Also, the TMS Annual Meeting is a channel of communication for me.
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Judit Medina Caballero
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Title: Senior Technician Specialized in Public Research Organizations
Affiliation: CENIM-CSIC
Quote: It is my pleasure and a great honor to receive this award from expert professionals of the Light Metals Division of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Pablo Pérez
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Title: Tenured Researcher
Affiliation: CENIM-CSIC
Quote: Recognition of the work that has been carried out in the field of magnesium alloys as well as an indication of the quality of the research in this field.
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Norbert Schell
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Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Outstation at DESY
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Andreas Stark
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Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
Other: "Analysis of the Microstructure Role in the Yield Asymmetry of Extruded Mg-LPSO Alloys Using In Situ Diffraction Experiments", JOM, July 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Svitlana Fialkova
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Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Other: "Effect of Single-Pass Differential Speed Rolling on the Dynamic Recrystallization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Mg5Zn", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Christopher Hale
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Title: Research and Teaching Assistant
Affiliation: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Quote: The TMS Foundation has enabled many researchers like myself to collaborate with fellow colleagues, become educated in new technologies, and share individual research efforts through a common platform--making accomplishments and awards possible. Many thanks goes out to TMS and all of its constituents!
Other: "Effect of Single-Pass Differential Speed Rolling on the Dynamic Recrystallization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Mg5Zn", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Jagannathan Sankar
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Title: Distinguished University Professor
Affiliation: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Quote: Very proud my team's hard-work and this TMS award is very special to all of us, giving us new energy.
Other: "Effect of Single-Pass Differential Speed Rolling on the Dynamic Recrystallization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Mg5Zn", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Zhigang Xu
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Title: Senior Research Scientist
Affiliation: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Quote: "Thanks to the TMS-LMD Magnesium Committee for the award. Developing high-performance magnesium-based materials for lightweight applications is what we are passionate about. This award is an excellent recognition of our past and an encouragement for our future. By failing to plan, you are preparing to fail."
Other: "Effect of Single-Pass Differential Speed Rolling on the Dynamic Recrystallization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Mg5Zn", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Sergey Yarmolenko
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Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Other: "Effect of Single-Pass Differential Speed Rolling on the Dynamic Recrystallization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Mg5Zn", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Honglin Zhang
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Title: Ph.D. Graduate
Affiliation: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Quote: Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Other: "Effect of Single-Pass Differential Speed Rolling on the Dynamic Recrystallization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Mg5Zn", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Yasumasa Chino
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Title: Group Leader
Affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this paper award. Through R&D, we have developed new flame-retardant magnesium alloys and established basic technologies for manufacturing high-speed railway bodies. We would like to continue the R&D so that the application of wrought magnesium alloys to high-speed railways can be successfully realized.
Other: "Development of Flame-Retardant Wrought Magnesium Alloys and Application of the Alloys to High-Speed Railway Body", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Takeshi Ishikawa
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Title: Manager
Affiliation: Japan Transport Engineering Company
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this paper award. Through the R&Ds, we have developed a new flame-retardant magnesium alloy, and established a basic technology for manufacturing high speed railway body. We would like to continue the R&Ds so that the application of wrought magnesium alloys to high-speed railway can be successfully realized.
Other: "Development of Flame-Retardant Wrought Magnesium Alloys and Application of the Alloys to High-Speed Railway Body", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Futoshi Kido
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Title: Group Leader
Affiliation: Fuji Light Metal Co., Ltd.
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this paper award. Through the R&Ds, we have developed a new flame-retardant magnesium alloy and established a basic technology for manufacturing high speed railway body. We would like to continue the R&Ds so that the application of wrought magnesium alloys to high-speed railway can be successfully realized.
Other: "Development of Flame-Retardant Wrought Magnesium Alloys and Application of the Alloys to High-Speed Railway Body", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Hisashi Mori
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Title: Chief Engineer
Affiliation: UACJ Company
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this paper award. Through the R&Ds, we have developed a new flame-retardant magnesium alloy, and established a basic technology for manufacturing high speed railway body. We would like to continue the R&Ds so that the application of wrought magnesium alloys to high-speed railway can be successfully realized.
Other: "Development of Flame-Retardant Wrought Magnesium Alloys and Application of the Alloys to High-Speed Railway Body", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Kazunori Shimizu
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Title: General Manager
Affiliation: Sankyo Tateyama, Inc.
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this paper award. Through the R&Ds, we have developed a new flame-retardant magnesium alloy, and established a basic technology for manufacturing high speed railway body. We would like to continue the R&Ds so that the application of wrought magnesium alloys to high-speed railway can be successfully realized.
Other: "Development of Flame-Retardant Wrought Magnesium Alloys and Application of the Alloys to High-Speed Railway Body", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Makoto Taguchi
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Title: Senior Staff Officer
Affiliation: Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Co., Ltd
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this paper award. Through the R&Ds, we have developed a new flame-retardant magnesium alloy, and established a basic technology for manufacturing high speed railway body. We would like to continue the R&Ds so that the application of wrought magnesium alloys to high-speed railway can be successfully realized.
Other: "Development of Flame-Retardant Wrought Magnesium Alloys and Application of the Alloys to High-Speed Railway Body", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Fundamental Research
Kang Wang
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Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Quote: I'm very pleased to receive the TMS LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper - Fundamental Research Award. TMS provides a top platform for me to exchange with top experts around the world. I wish TMS all the success in the future.
Other: "First-Principles Investigation of the Early-Stage Precipitations in Mg-Sn and Mg-Zn Alloys", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Fundamental Research
Bi-Cheng Zhou
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Quote: I am very happy to receive this award from TMS. TMS is my home professional society as a physical metallurgist since graduate school and Magnesium alloys are a material near and dear to my heart.
Other: "First-Principles Investigation of the Early-Stage Precipitations in Mg-Sn and Mg-Zn Alloys", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Technology Award
Robert (Bob) Wagstaff
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Title: Founding Partner
Affiliation: Oculatus Consulting
Quote: I am grateful to the gracious individuals who nominated me for this award. I accept this award with gratitude to the Society, who recognize the work I have been fortunate enough to lead over my career. I am most grateful to my mentors, the innovators and organizational leaders who have helped pull my life work into commercial reality.
Citation: A career committed to excellency in gaining and proliferating knowledge through the development and implementation of technology for the global aluminum industry, including air-slip molds and fusion clad casting.
2023 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award - Professional
Soumendra Basu
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Title: Professor and Associate Division Head
Affiliation: Boston University
Quote: I am delighted that this paper has been chosen for an award in the field of energy. This award validates the outstanding research carried out by my PhD student. It also highlights the contributions of advanced quantitative microstructural analysis in understanding fundamental physical phenomena that drive device performance.
Other: "Quantifying the Relationship Between Microstructure and Performance in Gadolinium-Doped Ceria Infiltrated Ni/YSZ Symmetric Cells", JOM, October 2022
2023 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award - Professional
Srikanth Gopalan
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Boston University
Quote: The TMS energy symposia have become an excellent forum to showcase our work on electrochemical energy conversion and storage. This award is a great testament to our longstanding focus in materials for energy conversion and a great encouragement to our students.
Other: "Quantifying the Relationship Between Microstructure and Performance in Gadolinium-Doped Ceria Infiltrated Ni/YSZ Symmetric Cells", JOM, October 2022
2023 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award - Professional
Uday Pal
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Boston University
Quote: We are honored as a group because this award is a recognition of our research as a team in the area of fuel cells. TMS is a great forum for interacting with the greater professional community and staying current with technological and scientific developments in the field. I have been a TMS member for more than 30 years and have enjoyed learning from and meeting my professional colleagues at the Annual Meetings.
Other: "Quantifying the Relationship Between Microstructure and Performance in Gadolinium-Doped Ceria Infiltrated Ni/YSZ Symmetric Cells", JOM, October 2022
2023 LMD/EPD Subject Award - Recycling
Antoine Allanore
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other: "Shifting the Burden of Selectivity from Chemical to Physical Separation Process via Selective Sulfidation", REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (Volume I)
2023 LMD/EPD Subject Award - Recycling
Caspar Stinn
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Title: Doctoral Candidate
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: I feel very honored to be recognized with this award by TMS. As a graduate student, I learn so much at TMS meetings from the valuable insight, creativity, and wisdom of those around me. I really appreciate the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful professional community.
Other: "Shifting the Burden of Selectivity from Chemical to Physical Separation Process via Selective Sulfidation", REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (Volume I)
2023 MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Somnath Ghosh
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Title: Michael G. Callas Chair Professor
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Quote: Receiving the MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award from TMS is a tremendous honor for me. It is a highlight of my research career that I will cherish always. I am truly honored to be in the company of the very distinguished colleagues who have received this award before me. Thank you, TMS!
Citation: "For pioneering contributions to Materials Engineering through the innovation of spatial and temporal multiscaling methods like PHCMs and WATMUS, that are game-changers for fatigue prediction"
2023 MPMD Distinguished Service Award
Kester Clarke
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Title: FIERF Professor
Affiliation: Colorado School of Mines
Quote: I feel that I have gained so much professionally and personally from my participation in TMS and MPMD that the experience has been precious in and of itself, but it's really delightful to receive this award on top of it all! Thank you, and looking forward to continued service in the future.
Citation: For dedicated service to the advancement of TMS and MPMD through exceptional volunteerism and continued support of mentoring new members.
2023 MPMD ICME Industry Implementation Award
General Motors Global Research & Development, c/o Andrew Bobel
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Title: Senior Researcher
Affiliation: General Motors Global Research & Development
Quote: It is with great humility and gratitude that we accept the MPMD ICME Industry Implementation Award for our work on computational alloy development for additively manufactured superchargers. It was our vision to use state-of-the-art computational tools together with experimental validation to accelerate this ultimate implementation. The award honors this vision and the initial successes we have had in collaboration with others. TMS has provided me with the ability to stay connected with my peers in the material science profession and I look forward to contributing to TMS as a member and a volunteer.
2023 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Sen Luo
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Mineral, Northeastern University
Quote: It's my honor to receive this award, which will encourage me to continue to make more innovative and challenging work in the future.
Other: "Multiphase Field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification of Low-Carbon Steel with Peritectic Phase Transition", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, December 2021
2023 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Weiling Wang
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Title: Associate professor
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Quote: It's a great honor to be awarded. It will motivate me to investigate deeper into the muti-phase solidification fundamental of steel.
Other: "Multiphase Field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification of Low-Carbon Steel with Peritectic Phase Transition", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, December 2021
2023 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Peng Wang
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Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Mineral, Northeastern University
Quote: I am very grateful to the TMS EPD Award Committee and the reviewers for the recognition and support for these work in this article, it is a great encouragement for my future work. I hope to continue to make more great works in the field of material processing in the future. Thank you very much.
Other: "Multiphase Field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification of Low-Carbon Steel with Peritectic Phase Transition", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, December 2021
2023 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Yiming Yang
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Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Mineral, Northeastern University
Quote: I am very grateful to the TMS EPD Award Committee and the reviewers for the recognition and support for these work in this article, it is a great encouragement for my future work. I hope to continue to make more great works in the field of material processing in the future. Thank you very much.
Other: "Multiphase Field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification of Low-Carbon Steel with Peritectic Phase Transition", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, December 2021
2023 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Miaoyong Zhu
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Mineral, Northeastern University
Quote: This award is a recognition of our team's work. We will continue to do a good job in scientific research and solve the problems encountered in the metallurgical industry
Other: "Multiphase Field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification of Low-Carbon Steel with Peritectic Phase Transition", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, December 2021
2023 SMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Javier Llorca
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Title: Scientific Director & Professor
Affiliation: IMDEA Materials Institute & Polytechnic University of Madrid
Quote: "I am deeply honored to receive this award from the Structural Materials Division of TMS and I want to share this recognition with all my collaborators along the years."
Citation: For his contributions towards establishing processing-microstructure-property linkages in structural materials by means of multiscale modelling strategies and the transference of these tools to industry
2023 SMD Distinguished Service Award
Elizabeth Holm
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Quote: SMD has been my home division since I became a TMS member. It is a true honor to receive this recognition from my professional family!
Citation: For seminal contributions to our understanding of the processing of structural materials via computer simulation and materials learning
2023 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Matt Cherry
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Affiliation: Air Force Research Lab
Other: "Estimation of Realistic Microtexture Region Orientation Distribution Functions Using Eddy Current Data", JOM, October 2022
2023 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Laura Homa
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Title: Research Engineer
Affiliation: University of Dayton Research Institute
Quote: I am very honored to have our paper chosen for this award. I am grateful to TMS for giving us the opportunity to share the work with the broader materials community.
Other: "Estimation of Realistic Microtexture Region Orientation Distribution Functions Using Eddy Current Data", JOM, October 2022
2023 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
John Wertz
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Title: Research Aerospace Engineer
Affiliation: Air Force Research Lab
Quote: The honor bestowed by this award serves as inspiration for the continued pursuit of nondestructive evaluation solutions to challenging problems in the TMS community.
Other: "Estimation of Realistic Microtexture Region Orientation Distribution Functions Using Eddy Current Data", JOM, October 2022
2023 TMS/SME/AIME James Douglas Gold Medal
Sevkat Acar
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Title: Mineral Processing Consultant
Affiliation: Acar Consulting LLC
Citation: For his unrelenting efforts and dedication in providing practical, world class solutions in the processing of refractory gold ores, which advanced the fundamentals of minerals beneficiation in nonferrous metallurgy.
Young Professionals Awards
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2023 AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award
Zhuoran Zeng
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Title: Research Fellow
Affiliation: Australian National University
Quote: The AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award is particularly special on the basis that is a recognition for younger members of TMS, whilst also having a long history of such important recognition across the broad fields of metallurgy and materials science. I am deeply honored to be receiving the 2023 award. Membership of TMS has always provided me with significant opportunities and played an important role in my career development.
Citation: For seminal contributions in microstructure-processing-property relationships in magnesium alloys.
2023 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award
Danielle Cote
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Quote: It is such an honor to be recognized for this award. I would like to thank my nominators as well as the Society for the recognition. I look forward to using these new resources to grow my involvement and leadership within TMS.
Other: Title of lecture: "The Role of Early Career Professionals in Increasing Diversity in STEM Professions"
2023 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award
Grace Gu
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Quote: I am honored and grateful to receive this award made possible by the TMS Foundation. TMS provides me an opportunity to connect with researchers from industry, academia, and national laboratories and explore new research avenues and collaborations. I look forward to contributing to future TMS activities and further interacting with the TMS community.
Other: Title of lecture: "Managing Tradeoffs in Materials and Life"
2023 EPD Young Leaders Professional Development
Adamantia Lazou
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Title: Researcher
Affiliation: NTNU
Quote: I am proud to be selected as one of the recipients of the EPD YOUNG LEADERS' AWARD. As a young researcher is not only inspiring but also a great opportunity to meet excellent professionals from the materials and metals society. For me, TMS is an outstanding foundation where multidiscipline professionals can discuss the symbiosis of materials, sustainability, technology and innovation, and fundamental research.
2023 FMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Jing Du
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Quote: It is my great honor to be selected for the TMS FMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award. I have been attending TMS conferences and serving on the Biomaterials Committee since 2017. With the support of this award, I look forward to more fully participating in TMS activities and networking with prominent Society members.
2023 FMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Arun Kumar Mannodi Kanakkithodi
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Purdue University
Quote: It is a great honor to be selected by the distinguished members of the Functional Materials Division for the 2023 Young Leaders Professional Development award. I have regularly attended TMS and MS&T meetings for a few years now, and am highly appreciative of the support provided at these meetings to early career scientists, both in terms of delivering talks to a large and diverse materials community and in organizing symposia and other events. I look forward to participating in many future activities courtesy of FMD / TMS, as an organizer and an attendee, as I continue my growth as a materials scientist and faculty.
2023 Frontiers of Materials Award
Alison Dunn
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quote: Thank you to TMS for this honor of organizing a focused session on hydrogel mechanics! Not only is it an exciting interdisciplinary area, the community at TMS is ideal for deep discussions to truly push new ideas forward.
Other: Frontiers of Materials Award Symposium: Functional Composition Control of Surface Mechanics in Soft, Water-swollen Gels
2023 Frontiers of Materials Award
Ashwin Shahani
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Quote: I am honored and humbled to receive the Frontiers of Materials Award. I have had the pleasure of attending the TMS Annual Meeting for the past decade and presenting my research almost every year within that timeframe. I look forward to giving back to the materials community by organizing a symposium on complex intermetallics, bridging emergent research in crystallography, mathematics, physics, and geology - fields that were traditionally underrepresented in past meetings.
Other: Frontiers of Materials Award Symposium: Intermetallic Alloys at the Edge of Complexity: Structural and Kinetic Aspects
2023 Frontiers of Materials Award
Yuji Zhao
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Rice University
Quote: As one of the oldest and most prestigious professional societies in materials science, TMS has played an indispensable role in my scientific career as well as my personal growth. For more than 14 years since I was a graduate student of Shuji Nakamura's at University of California, Santa Barbara, I have participated in various TMS conferences and published in TMS journals on the topics of electronic materials and wide bandgap semiconductors, which offered tremendous scientific, educational, and professional experiences. I am humbled and forever grateful to receive the TMS Frontiers of Materials Award, and I look forward to organizing the Frontiers of Materials Symposium on ultrawide bandgap materials, and making more contributions to the TMS community as well as the broader field of materials science.
Other: Frontiers of Materials Award Symposium: Ultra-Wide Bandgap Materials and Heterostructures for Next Generation Power, RF and Quantum Applications
2023 LMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Mertol Gökelma
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Izmir Institute of Technology
Quote: I am honored to receive this award from a society where the academia and industry come together to discuss the new materials technologies and meanwhile to shape the future of metal industry. I will devote my faithful efforts to promote productive and active exchange within the society in the future.
2023 LMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Scott Sutton
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Title: R&D Manager
Affiliation: Mag Specialties Inc
Quote: TMS brings together experts and leaders from every materials-related discipline, who share and publicize the latest technical developments of their respective fields. TMS meetings and the professional society itself have both been an excellent resource for me, in academia and in my professional career. I am greatly honored to receive this award, and I look forward to giving back to the TMS community.
2023 MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Matthew Daly
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Illinois Chicago
Quote: I am deeply honored to receive this professional development award from the MPMD. Since attending my first meeting in 2014, I have been extremely impressed by the bottom-up approach TMS takes towards programming and outreach. This approach to volunteerism has been key to my engagement with the community, and I look forward to continuing my service to the division and the society through the functions and activities of this award.
2023 MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Yufeng Zheng
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Nevada Reno
Quote: I feel extremely honored to receive the 2023 TMS MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award! Ever since I first attended the TMS annual meeting in 2011, TMS has become my home community because TMS provided tremendous opportunities to develop my technical expertise in materials science, enhance my leadership skills, and expand my network with materials science researchers worldwide. Through this precious award, I look forward to continue making contributions to the MPMD and TMS community and I am committed to passing along these opportunities to the young materials science researchers and students.
2023 SMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Dong (Lilly) Liu
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Bristol
Quote: I am absolutely thrilled to receive this award - it helps to promote my research profile to let more people know about my work at Bristol. This also plays an important role for my next-step career development as an academic.
2023 Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award
Matteo Seita
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Quote: It is a great honor for me to receive this award from TMS. I consider TMS as the place where my aspirations to work on Additive Manufacturing (AM) ‘crystallized’ back in 2015. That meeting, I believe, was the first one that included an entire symposium dedicated to AM, which I attended wholly. I remember listening to inspiring talks and running my ideas by the people who were at the top of the field. One year later, I found myself starting my own research group to work on those very same ideas. As it has been for me, I am sure that TMS will be the place where future generations of materials scientists gather to get inspired, discuss ideas, and bring innovation to this exciting and ever-growing field.
2023 Young Leaders International Scholar - JIM
Damien Tourret
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Title: Researcher
Affiliation: IMDEA Materials
Quote: I am honored to receive this recognition from my peers and grateful to the TMS Foundation for the great opportunities they provide for early career scientists and engineers to grow, learn, and broaden their horizons. It will be an honor and a privilege to represent the Society at the upcoming JIM meeting.
Student Awards
View this calendar year’s recipients of TMS student scholarships, travel grants, and other awards.
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2023 Acta Materialia, Inc. Undergraduate Scholarship
Berk Soykan
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Drexel University
Quote: I am incredibly grateful to TMS, Acta Materialia Inc, and Material Advantage for this scholarship which will significantly support one year of my undergraduate studies at Drexel University and my attendance of the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in 2023. I have been interacting with Drexel’s Material Advantage chapter since the beginning of my college experience and it has been a continuous wealth of information on the many subfields within materials science and engineering, a reliable source of professional development opportunities, and a link to the materials community in industry and academia alike. With the support of this scholarship, I am looking forward to completing my undergraduate degree and applying to Ph.D. programs with a particular interest in physical metallurgy and material design.
2023 Acta Materialia, Inc. Undergraduate Scholarship
Raymond Wysmierski
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Tennessee
Quote: I joined Materials Advantage in the Fall of 2021 and, since then, I have grown extensively because of this organization. The scholarships, industry nights, and leadership opportunities have greatly excelled my professional career, and I could not be more thankful. I have so many events to look forward to this upcoming academic year: trivia nights, conferences, materials bowls, and engineering competitions to name a few. Following graduation, I plan to earn a master’s degree in materials science and engineering and seek out industry positions in automotive manufacturing and metallurgy.
2023 AIME Henry deWitt Smith Scholarship
Jack Grimm
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Title: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: University of Washington
Quote: I already owe much to TMS and Material Advantage for introducing me to not only the vast span of materials science research, but also the field-leading experts behind those projects. It was thanks to the first TMS meeting I attended in 2018 (through Material Advantage) that I was able to identify my interests, make impactful connections, and develop my early career trajectory. I am grateful to have been selected for the Henry deWitt Smith Scholarship, and I hope to pay this honor forward through the promotion of materials science through education, outreach, and research.
2023 AIME Henry deWitt Smith Scholarship
Haozheng Qu
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Purdue University
Quote: The Henry deWitt Smith Scholarship Award is a tremendously humbling honor for me to receive from TMS and AIME. I am so grateful for the decision to join TMS at the very beginning of my graduate school, for I have gained valuable exposure to state-of-the-art research and opportunities to interface with world-class experts in materials science over the past four years. This prestigious award is an amazing recognition for my efforts in this exciting journey of my Ph.D. studies, and also a great encouragement for me to keep pressing on exploring and advancing our understanding of the materials universe.
2023 EPD Scholarship
Madison Pixler
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Quote: I would like to thank the Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) for selecting me as this year’s scholarship recipient. I chose to attend Notre Dame because I knew the education that I would receive would be one that cultivates both my mind and my heart; I also knew a membership at TMS would help me to develop critical skills to apply in the materials industry. The funds of this scholarship provided generously by the TMS Foundation, Battelle, and its former Chief Executive Officer and President, Jeffrey Wadsworth will go directly to paying for my tuition and will allow me to relieve financial stress while focusing on my chemical engineering degree.
2023 FMD Gilbert Chin Scholarship
Griffin Tong
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin Madison
Quote: Two years ago, I chose to study materials science and engineering instead of medicine. Since then, the opportunities and experiences that I have gained through TMS and Material Advantage have been tremendously positive, and with the support of this award, I know that I'm on the right path. I feel like my hard work is finally paying off and is even helping me to fund my education and grow my network.
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Student Paper
Daniel Höche
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Title: Head of Department - Interface modelling
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Quote: I am happy for Ms. Xuejiao Li. The acknowledgement of her work and her contribution to the TMS Community is highly appreciated.
Other: "Active Corrosion Protection Surfaces Based on Layered Double Hydroxides Nanocontainers: A Computational Study", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Student Paper
Xuejiao Li
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Title: PhD student
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Quote: It is my great honor to receive this award form TMS. We would like to thank the jury members for this recognition and consider the award as an encouragement for our work in corrosion protection for magnesium alloys. TMS provides a great platform to share our research and I enjoyed the conference a lot at Anaheim.
Other: "Active Corrosion Protection Surfaces Based on Layered Double Hydroxides Nanocontainers: A Computational Study", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Student Paper
Robert Meißner
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Title: Scientist
Affiliation: Institute of Surface Science, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Quote: I am very grateful that Xuejiao's work is recognized with this award. Xuejiao's work enables the general description of magnesium-based layered double hydroxides. The award once again underscores the importance of research in this field.
Other: "Active Corrosion Protection Surfaces Based on Layered Double Hydroxides Nanocontainers: A Computational Study", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Student Paper
Mikhail Zheludkevich
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Title: Director of Institute of Surface Science
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Other: "Active Corrosion Protection Surfaces Based on Layered Double Hydroxides Nanocontainers: A Computational Study", Magnesium Technology 2022
2023 LMD Scholarship
Marley Downes
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Drexel University
Quote: I am extremely grateful to be receiving the 2023 Light Metals Division Scholarship. Being a part of TMS and Materials Advantage has given me numerous opportunities to grow outside of my classroom education, and I am excited for everything I will get to see and learn at the TMS annual meeting in the spring. This scholarship will help me progress through my education without the heavy burden of debt, and I am very thankful to TMS for giving me this opportunity.
2023 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award- Student
Joy Morin
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Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Boise State University
Quote: What a great honor it is to receive this award on my first published paper. I would like to thank the TMS organizing committee for not only providing this platform, but for inspiring me and many others with the sharing of ideas and research they promote. This recognition means so much and will motivate my future research.
Other: "Synthesis Methods for Nanoparticle Morphology Control in Clean Energy Applications", REWAS 2022: Energy Technologies and CO2 Management (Volume II)
2023 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award- Student
Arin Preston
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Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Affiliation: Idaho National Laboratory
Quote: I am very pleased to have been a contributing author for this paper and would like to thank Joy for involving me.
Other: "Synthesis Methods for Nanoparticle Morphology Control in Clean Energy Applications", REWAS 2022: Energy Technologies and CO2 Management (Volume II)
2023 MPMD Scholarship
Anush Singhal
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology
Quote: From connecting with professors who are a part of the TMS community in Canada and who recommended this field of study, to networking, social, and professional events hosted at Georgia Tech by our Materials Advantage chapter; TMS has provided me with a community of members to connect with. I plan to attend graduate school and obtain a Ph.D. in materials science with a focus on sustainable materials research in electronics. I am honored to receive the MPMD Scholarship and would like to thank the TMS Foundation, Battelle, and Jeffrey Wadsworth for supporting my education, providing me with new experiences, and investing in my future.
2023 SMD Scholarship
Sydney Fields
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Nevada, Reno
Quote: I am sincerely honored to be selected as the recipient of the Structural Materials Division Scholarship. As a member of TMS and Materials Advantage, I have connected with others with similar interests and taken advantage of additional research opportunities. This scholarship will help support my education, future research, and my TMS travel.
2023 TMS Best Paper Contest - Graduate - 1st Place
Lin Gao
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Quote: It is my great honor to receive this award. TMS provides me with this new opportunity to be involved in this professional society. I am profoundly grateful for the help and support from the TMS Foundation, my supervisor Tao Sun, and all my co-authors. This award not only recognizes our current research but also encourages me to make more efforts to explore this field of material science.
Other: "Exceptional Ductility Induced by Intrinsic Grain Boundary Engineering"
2023 TMS Best Paper Contest - Graduate - 2nd Place
Benjamin Stegman
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Purdue University
Quote: TMS membership has significantly helped me further my career through access to technical programming and it has expanded my connections with its international presence. This award will also help increase my reputation within the additive community and hopefully help me progress professionally.
Other: "Reactive Introduction of Oxide Nanoparticles in Additively Manufactured 718 Ni Alloys"