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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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2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Rajendra Bordia
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Title: George J. Bishop, III Professor of Ceramic and Materials Engineering
Affiliation: Clemson University
Quote: I am honored that our technical contribution was selected for this significant honor by our peers. I thank Dr. Pietrzyk for nominating our paper and the TMS Honors and Professional Recognition Committee and the TMS Board of Directors for selecting it for this prestigious award
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Diletta Giuntini
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Eindhoven University of Technology
Quote: It is a true honor and a great pleasure to see our work recognized with this prestigious award. It was a collective interdisciplinary effort that led to valuable insights on the diffusion mechanisms controlling material processing. Its appreciation in the TMS community makes us very proud.
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Tyler Harrington
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Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Alberto Molinari
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Trento
Quote: This award recognizes the work I'm doing for years to highlight the influence of cold compaction on sintering mechanisms, with an original approach. It also recognizes the international cooperation with co-authors. It is delivered by the most authoritative Society in the field of materials in the world.
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Eugene Olevsky
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Title: Dean and Distinguished Professor
Affiliation: San Diego State University
Quote: I am extremely proud and honored to receive this award. TMS is one of the oldest and broadly internationally-recognized professional societies in materials engineering. TMS activities are very important for me, my colleagues, and my students.
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Elisa Torresani
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: San Diego State University
Quote: I am extremely honored and delighted to receive this prestigious award. I express my gratitude to all the co-authors for their invaluable contributions and guidance. I am looking forward to actively participating in TMS activities in future.
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Kenneth Vecchio
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Quote: This award recognizes the successful collaboration between UC San Diego and SDSU graduate students and their mentors, that enabled a unique synergy of theoretical and experimental work to produce a paper enhancing our understanding of sintering mechanics.
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award
Chaoyi Zhu
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Title: Scientist
Affiliation: EAG Laboratories
Quote: It is my honor to share this award with our collaborators. Over the past few years, TMS has been a great a platform for me to interact and share my ideas with scientists and researchers around the world. Undoubtedly, It has helped me to develop my career as a scientist with a special focus on materials characterization.
Other: “Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore–Particle Structure Orientation,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, February 2019
2022 AIME Honorary Membership Award
Elizabeth Holm
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Title: Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Citation: For her outstanding service to TMS and distinguished scientific achievements in computational materials science and engineering.
2022 Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award
Carl Cady
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Title: Research Engineer
Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quote: I have been rewarded greatly over my career by working closely with so many other volunteers and TMS staff who have made our meetings and our society better. By actively participating in our society through programming for meetings, or in helping with administrative activities I feel like I have contributed in making TMS better and more inclusive for everyone. It continues to be my honor to work with so many colleagues and TMS staff that give their time and energy to make our society better. The relationships that I have developed with other volunteers have been beneficial in my career development, both in the information and knowledge that is shared by more personal interaction, but also in having a broader network of contacts within our field. I have seen over the years of my volunteerism that the most influential scientists in our field also are those people that are the most active volunteers. I am honored to be given the Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award because it means that I have contributed to the success of our society. I hope that I can inspire others to do more. Your efforts will also be rewarded as mine have.
Citation: For dedicated and sustained service to TMS and its members, particularly to improvements in the quality of programming at TMS annual meetings and at Materials Science & Technology conferences.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Megan Cordill
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Title: Deputy Director
Affiliation: Erich Schmid Insitute for Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Quote: TMS is my home society and being recognized by my peers for scientific achievement is an honor.
Citation: For sustained excellence and achievement in the science and technology of mechanical behavior of thin films and an exceptional and continuing service to the profession.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Michael Demkowicz
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Quote: TMS is a vibrant community of scientists and engineers at the frontiers of materials research and development. It is my great honor that this community has chosen me to receive the Brimacombe Medal. I am especially grateful to all those who mentored, supported, and encouraged me throughout my career.
Citation: For atomistic modeling of interface structures and defect interactions for nuclear energy and structural applications, and professional service to TMS and the materials research community.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Khalid Hattar
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Title: Center of Integrated Nanotechnologies Scientist
Affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories
Quote: I am humbled and honored to join the long list of amazing scientists and engineers to be named J. Keith Brimacombe Medalists. I highly value my TMS membership which has provided exceptional professional opportunities, thought provoking and career altering discussions, sparks that ignited several decade-long and extremely fruitful collaborations, and many fond memories of the last amazing conference before the world shut-down. I would be amiss not to thank my mentors, colleagues, friends, post-docs, student interns, and especially my family, as without their patience and support none of my career accomplishments would be possible.
Citation: For extensive contributions to understand material response under extreme environments through the development of in-situ microscopy capabilities. And for outstanding mentorship of next-generation materials scientists.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Edward Herderick
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Title: Director of Additive Manufacturing
Affiliation: The Ohio State University Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence
Quote: I am thrilled to join this year's class of Brimacombe Medalists and am grateful and appreciative of TMS and my colleagues, collaborators, and students over the years who have made it so much fun and rewarding to pursue a career in materials science and engineering. I really believe that the TMS community has the tools and knowhow to address societal challenges through collaboration and developing the next generation in our profession. Legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes had a saying: "Pay it Forward" and I think that Keith Brimacombe would have really loved that sentiment. I'm looking forward to doing that with my fellow TMS members for years to come.
Citation: For exemplary leadership and contributions to the industrialization of Additive Manufacturing and service to TMS.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Peter Hosemann
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Quote: TMS has been my professional home ever since I entered the profession as a material scientist and has been instrumental in my professional development ever since. The inclusive and bottom-up nature of TMS as an organization makes it a very welcoming society. The Brimacombe Medal reflects this environment very well and as such I am extremely thankful and humbled to receive this award. I thank TMS, my colleagues, friends, and family for their support over the years who enabled me to work in my profession and I am looking forward to many TMS events and engagements in the future.
Citation: For contribution to micro and macroscale mechanical testing of irradiated materials and in-situ materials testing and continued dedication to TMS and education.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Jun Lou
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Rice University
Quote: It is a great honor for me to receive the prestigious Brimacombe Medal this year. TMS has played a very important role in my academic career development, including delivering my first ever conference presentation twenty years ago, receiving a young leaders award, organizing several exciting symposia with outstanding speakers and participants, and providing a vibrant professional community where I call intellectual home. I look forward to continuing active engagement with TMS in the years to come.
Citation: For sustained contributions to the development of low-dimensional materials and the understanding of their complex electro-chemical and mechanical behaviors, and for dedication to service.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Akane Suzuki
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Title: Principal Engineer
Affiliation: GE Research
Quote: I am truly honored and grateful to receive the TMS Brimacombe Medal. I am fortunate to be a part of TMS and thankful for the tremendous opportunities it provides through conferences and technical committee activities. I wish to thank my colleagues, peers, and mentors for their support, encouragement, and inspiration.
Citation: For sustained development of high-temperature alloys for critical components of aircraft engines and power generation gas turbines and advancing understanding of their operational life-limiting behavior.
2022 Brimacombe Medalist
Michael Tonks
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Florida
Quote: TMS is an excellent professional society and my membership in it has had a large impact on my career. I am honored and humbled to be recognized by them as a Brimacombe Medalist
Citation: For contributions in computational materials science approaches for materials in harsh environments.
2022 Bruce Chalmers Award
Carl V. Thompson
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Title: Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: I am deeply honored to have been chosen for this award. While Professor Chalmers’ own research focused on solidification, his fundamental focus was on linking new insights into the mechanisms of structure evolution, to new ways of making materials that achieved engineering goals. He was an early practitioner and advocate for this approach that now forms the basis of materials science and engineering as we know it today, whether it involves development of the scientific basis for processing of ingots or thin films.
Citation: For pioneering scholarly work defining the processing-structure-property connections in thin-film and small-scale metallic materials broadly impacting the microelectronics industry.
2022 Cyril Stanley Smith Award
Gregory Olson
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Title: ThermoCalc Professor of the Practice
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: This award has very special meaning to me. Through inspiring interactions with Cyril in the 1980s, his vision of a systems approach to hierarchical microstructure formed the foundation of the materials design methodology on which my career has been based.
Citation: Pioneering contributions in materials design methodologies using a systems-based approach to accelerate materials development.
2022 Ellen Swallow Richards Diversity Award
Cammy Abernathy
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Title: Dean
Affiliation: University of Florida
Quote: “It is an incredible honor to receive this award. Ellen Swallow Richards was an inspiration for so many young women at MIT and in the field of materials. Though there is certainly more to be done, it is greatly fulfilling to see how our discipline has grown in importance and diversity over the decades since her trailblazing career. I am very grateful to TMS and to Jeffery and Geraldine McCulley Wadsworth for bringing special attention to the importance of diversity, and I am truly humbled to be considered among those who have helped to advance our discipline in this regard.”
Citation: For seminal contributions in compound semiconductor processing and efforts to eliminate institutional barriers to achieve the exemplar model for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
2022 Fellow Award
Eduard Arzt
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Quote: I am thrilled to receive a TMS Fellow Award 2022 and hope very much that in-person proceedings will be possible. It is a great privilege for us scientists to be able to live in a world where ideas flow freely across boundaries and to entertain international ties on a professional and on a personal level. TMS with its international outlook greatly underpins our efforts to promote worldwide science solutions and, in the process, international understanding.
Citation: For acting as a bridge between US and European materials research, global leadership, seminal contributions to the field, and leading major materials research institutes.
2022 Fellow Award
Jiann-Yang (Jim) Hwang
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Michigan Technological University
Quote: TMS for the last 30 years has been the place for me to communicate with colleagues, introduce my students, and serve the community through creating various platforms for new technology developments. This Fellow award shows my efforts and contributions to the minerals, metals, and materials field has been recognized. I am very grateful to my colleagues and the society, especially to those who have been working closely with me in the EPD division.
Citation: For pioneering research on microwave-assisted metallurgy, for outstanding innovations on mineral processing, for exceptional leadership and service to TMS, and for excellent student mentoring.
2022 Fellow Award
John Lewandowski
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Title: Distinguished University Professor and Arthur P Armington Professor of Engineering II
Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
Quote: This award gives me the opportunity to thank my family and the many TMS members and other colleagues that have provided great support and mentorship over the years. Professionally, this includes those at CMU and Cambridge University as well as those at CWRU for 35+ years. I have appreciated the financial support from various agencies, companies, and benefactors to enable me to work with such great colleagues and students, I look forward to continuing such interactions, and will strive to provide guidance to others in a manner that I have been fortunate to have experienced.
Citation: For sustained research, teaching, service, and mentoring activities related to the areas of processing/structure/mechanical property relationships on conventional and advanced structural materials.
2022 Fellow Award
Ju Li
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: I am honored and humbled to be in the TMS Fellow class of 2022. TMS has played a key role in my career development, for which I'm forever grateful.
Citation: For ground-breaking work on understanding the fundamental properties of ultra-strength materials and development and implementation of elastic strain engineering.
2022 Fellow Award
Zi-Kui Liu
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Title: Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Quote: “I am honored in receiving the TMS Fellow Award. I would like to thank TMS for providing all the terrific professional services to its members and the materials community, which have enabled me to interact with many great scientists, shape my research programs, and enhance my contributions to our community. I am very grateful for all my current and former students and research fellows for their willingness and diligence in working with me, so many wonderful collaborators who have been sharing their scientific insights with our group, excellent administrative supports from the Pennsylvania State University at all levels, and the foundational and inspirational education that I received in China and Sweden that drives my curiosity.”
Citation: For seminal contributions to fundamentals of thermodynamics and development of computational approaches and tools for predictions of properties and design of materials.
2022 Fellow Award
Kathy Lu
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Quote: This award is the highest honor and recognition for my contribution to the fundamental and applied research of materials science and engineering, especially regarding materials synthesis, processing, and performance in demanding environments.
Citation: For seminal contributions to the fundamental and applied research of materials science and engineering, especially regarding materials synthesis, processing, and performance in demanding environments.
2022 Fellow Award
Jan D. Miller
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Title: Ivor D. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Metallurgical Engineering
Affiliation: University of Utah
Quote: It is a special pleasure to be selected as a TMS Fellow and to be included with such a distinguished group of individuals. For many years TMS has provided important venues to communicate significant research results, thus facilitating advances in science and technology. The TMS opportunities to publish/present research results are greatly appreciated, and extend to many of our students, representing an important aspect of their education.
Citation: For seminal contributions to the characterization and understanding of interfacial phenomena in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy as well as associated mentoring and teaching.
2022 Fellow Award
Amit Misra
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Title: Professor and Department Chair
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Quote: “I feel honored to be recognized with the TMS Fellow Award and am grateful for the support from my colleagues, friends, and family, and very thankful of the TMS awards committees and my nominators and letter writers. I thank TMS for being a champion for metallurgy and structural materials research and providing the platform for my continued professional development since I was a graduate student.”
Citation: For pioneering research in nanomechanics and interface-enabled mechanical behavior and radiation effects in multiphase and multilayered materials, professional leadership, and mentoring of early career scientists.
2022 Fellow Award
Anil Sachdev
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Title: Lab Group Manager
Affiliation: General Motors Global Research and Development
Citation: For contributions to implementing lightweight products through computational materials engineering and for efforts to globalize materials research.
2022 Fellow Award
Patrice Turchi
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Title: Senior Scientist
Affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired in 2018)
Quote: I am grateful and humbled by this honor bestowed by my colleagues, and I am honored to have my name included in the list of those who were presented in the past with the TMS Fellow Award. By virtually every measure, it is easy to recognize that TMS remains the Society of choice for everything that deals with minerals, metals, and materials, and that spans from extraction to recycling with all the scientific and engineering science in between, like I have said for more than 30 years now. For these reasons, I remain very attached to what this professional scientific society has to offer to us as a community of scientists and will continue to do my best to honor what this award really means.
Citation: For exceptional and pioneering contributions in electronic structure-based theories of alloys, world-class leadership to promoting materials science, and tremendous involvement to professional societies.
2022 Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award
Ke Lu
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Title: Director
Affiliation: Institute of Metal Research
Quote: The TMS 2022 IOM Lecture/Mehl Award is an extraordinary recognition for me. I am deeply humbled to join the stellar awardee list over the past 100 years, in which many names I learnt are from textbooks of materials science and engineering. It is an extra honor for me to follow Prof. T.S. Ke, one of key pioneers of materials science in China and a distinguished predecessor of my institute, to receive this prestigious award. I am inspired by this award to deepen explorations in the rich territory of structural materials, especially metals and alloys, and to promote future generations.
Citation: For his seminal contribution to the understanding of the mechanical behaviors of nanostructured metals and his world-class leadership of materials research.
Other: “Schwarz Crystal Structures in Extremely Fine-Grained Metals”
2022 Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
Gregory Olson
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Title: ThermoCalc Professor of the Practice
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: I will always be grateful for the advice and support of Hans and Julia during my transition from researcher to educator, tackling the prescient challenge of teaching computational materials design to undergraduates some 30 years ago.
Citation: Pioneering contributions and leadership in the integration of materials design into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.
2022 Leadership Award
Steven Zinkle
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Title: Governor's Chair Professor
Affiliation: University of Tennessee
Quote: My research career has been integrally connected with TMS, beginning with my first technical presentation at a joint TMS/ASM Fall meeting when I was a 2nd-year graduate student. I have enormously benefited from the personal interactions and technical insights gleaned from TMS meetings. I am, therefore, deeply grateful for being recognized with the TMS Leadership Award.
Citation: For research leadership utilizing microstructure/property relationships that has enabled improved understanding of operational limits and design strategies for high-performance radiation-resistant materials.
2022 Morris Cohen Award
Huseyin Sehitoglu
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Quote: It is an honor to receive this TMS award paying tribute to Morris Cohen whose papers I have studied and learned from especially on the role of stress state on phase transformations. His papers on the role of transformation dislocations helped me formulate the energetics of transformation in my own work on shape memory alloys. It is especially rewarding to receive this award from TMS considering their very high standards.
Citation: For outstanding lifelong contributions to the understanding of the fatigue of metals.
2022 Oleg D. Sherby Award
Michael Kassner
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Quote: I have been a member of TMS for over 40 Years. I love the organization.
Citation: For outstanding work and contributions to the study of creep and high temperature plasticity including his seminal book “Fundamentals of Creep in Metals and Alloys”.
2022 Research to Industrial Practice Award
Oden Warren
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Title: General Manager
Affiliation: Bruker Nano Surfaces Division
Quote: I am thrilled to receive this award because it also honors the great customers, collaborators, colleagues, and mentors who have meant so much to me over the years, and I very much appreciate that it comes from TMS, which is the main society of the nanomechanics community that I call home. I took to heart Sir Humphry Davy’s quote “nothing begets good science like the development of a good instrument,” so it became a passion of mine to encourage scientific discovery through technology advancement. I find it satisfying whenever I learn that breakthrough research has been achieved using an instrument that I had a big hand in creating, not just because of the affirmation of my career, but also because of the contribution to the body of knowledge and the benefit to those who did the research.
Citation: For the development of advanced commercial nanomechanical testing instrumentation and experimental techniques to determine structure-mechanical property relationships in materials.
2022 Sadoway Materials Innovation and Advocacy Award
Elsa Olivetti
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quote: It is a tremendous privilege to honor the extraordinary and broad impact that Prof. Don Sadoway has had on our field through the TMS Sadoway Materials Innovation and Advocacy Award. Don Sadoway has been an incredible mentor and intellectual inspiration to me along every dimension of my academic journey from advising my PhD thesis to learning from his teaching and the example he has set in working on problems of great societal importance. I am grateful and honored to be a part of the extraordinary community he has catalyzed and fostered through his leadership including students, industrial collaborators, and academic colleagues. Finally, I am thankful to the TMS community, which has been critical in providing opportunities to build strong ties across research and educational initiatives, this award being one impactful way we can continue to build towards a more sustainable materials future.
Citation: For leadership and innovative and pioneering work for sustainability of our material resources in three axes: education, policy, and technical innovations.
2022 William D. Nix Award
Huajian Gao
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Title: Distinguished University Professor
Affiliation: Nanyang Technological University
Quote: William Nix was my mentor and role model throughout my career. It is with enormous gratitude that I accept this award in his honor.
Citation: For seminal contributions to the mechanics of engineering and biological materials at multiple length scales, and for mentoring exceptional members of the next generation of scientists.
Other: “Mechano-materials: Engineering Mechanical Properties of Materials with Internal Interfaces and Lightweight Structures”
2022 William Hume-Rothery Award
Anton Van der Ven
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For distinguished contributions to computational materials science and application of first-principles statistical mechanics methods to predict properties of alloys, oxides, and battery materials.
Other: "Study of Ferroelectricity and Phase Transitions in Hafnia”
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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2022 EPD Distinguished Lecturer Award
David Dreisinger
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Title: Professor and Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Citation: In recognition to his international leadership and innovator spirit in research, development, and teaching of hydrometallurgy, supporting sustainable extraction, and processing of metals.
Other: “Rare Earth and Critical Material Recovery from Peralkaline Volcanic Ores: Minerals Processing, Hydrometallurgy and Solvent Extraction Separation”
2022 EPD Distinguished Service Award
Corby Anderson
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Title: Harrison Western Professor
Affiliation: Colorado School of Mines
Quote: This award was a complete surprise as I do not volunteer at TMS or any other organization to receive accolades. Service and giving back to the profession are part of being in the Extraction and Processing global community. Thank you for this unanticipated honor.
2022 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - First Place
Joerg Jinschek
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Quote: I'm very delighted that our work has been selected for such a prestigious award. TMS annual meetings are the perfect platform to present such results that are a product of a fruitful collaboration between Welding Engineering and advanced Materials Characterisation at Ohio State.
Other: “S/TEM Characterization of Interdendritic Phases in Ni-30Cr Weld Metal 52XL”
2022 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - First Place
Cheng-Han Li
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Title: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Quote: I am honored to be recognized as a recipient of the TMS EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award. I always enjoyed attending conferences organized by TMS where the greatest researchers and scientists gather together to embrace the beauty of materials science.
Other: “S/TEM Characterization of Interdendritic Phases in Ni-30Cr Weld Metal 52XL”
2022 EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - Second Place
Wendell Bruno Almeida Bezerra
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Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Military Institute of Engineering
Quote: For me, this award represents a gratifying surprise for the work done in previous years, since this was my first participation as a presenter on the TMS annual meeting.
Other: “Thermal Stability of Plain Arapaima Scales and Scales-reinforced Epoxy Matrix Composites”
2022 EPD Pyrometallurgy Best Paper Award
Gerardo Alvear Flores
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Title: Technical Marketing Manager - Copper
Affiliation: Rio Tinto
Quote: I am honored by the recognition of my colleagues and they encourage me to continue to explore for opportunities to add value to the extractive metallurgy of copper
Other: “Processing of Complex Materials in the Copper Industry: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead,” JOM, July 2020.
2022 EPD Pyrometallurgy Best Paper Award
Carlos Risopatron
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Title: Director of Economics and Environment
Affiliation: International Copper Study Group
Quote: I am pleased to contribute in the global discussion to improve the challenges related to mineral concentrates, transport, and smelters/refineries
Other: “Processing of Complex Materials in the Copper Industry: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead,” JOM, July 2020.
2022 EPD Science Award
Megumi Akashi
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Title: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Quote: I am very grateful to TMS Extraction & Processing Division Award Committee for granting our work the honorable EPD Science Award. This award means that the scientific and industrial community recognized our experiments of liquid metal two-phase flow in the TSL system. Therefore, I want to accept the award as a big encouragement for our research in the future.
Other: “X-ray Radioscopic Visualization of Bubbly Flows Injected Through a Top Submerged Lance into a Liquid Metal,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, February 2020.
2022 EPD Science Award
Sten Anders
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Title: Post-Doc
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Quote: This award is a great honor for me and my coworkers and encourages us to proceed with the development and publication of our measurement techniques. It also symbolizes the interest of the metallurgical community in our results and therefore strengthens our plans to conduct even more detailed studies in the future.
Other: “X-ray Radioscopic Visualization of Bubbly Flows Injected Through a Top Submerged Lance into a Liquid Metal,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, February 2020.
2022 EPD Science Award
Sven Eckert
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Title: Head of Department Magnetohydrodynamics
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Quote: It is a special honor for our research team and for me personally to receive this award, especially since we can call ourselves newcomers in this research field at best. Our core competence is in the area of fluiddynamics of liquid metals. Our focus is on laboratory-scale modeling of diverse liquid metal processes and technologies. For this purpose, we have developed innovative measurement methods that allow us to obtain information from the experiments that is extremely important for the understanding and optimization of these processes and provide valuable data for the validation of numerical models. So it is a special pleasure for us that this award recognizes this competence and the possibilities it offers as being of great value for Extraction and Metallurgical Processing in the future.
Other: “X-ray Radioscopic Visualization of Bubbly Flows Injected Through a Top Submerged Lance into a Liquid Metal,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, February 2020.
2022 EPD Science Award
Olga Keplinger
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Title: Senior Engineer Design Enablement
Affiliation: Globalfoundries
Other: “X-ray Radioscopic Visualization of Bubbly Flows Injected Through a Top Submerged Lance into a Liquid Metal,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, February 2020.
2022 EPD Science Award
Markus Reuter
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Title: Senior Expert
Affiliation: SMS Group, Düsseldorf
Quote: Metallurgy enables the Circular Economy (CE). Therefore, the science and engineeirng embraced by TMS is at the core of the CE. Thus, understanding interfacial phenomena are of utmost importance, at the heart of the paper.
Other: “X-ray Radioscopic Visualization of Bubbly Flows Injected Through a Top Submerged Lance into a Liquid Metal,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, February 2020.
2022 EPD Science Award
Natalia Shevchenko
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Title: Research Fellow
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Quote: I feel honored to be one of the recipients of the TMS EPD Science Award. I thank the committee for selecting our publication. This award motivates us to continue pushing our research forward.
Other: “X-ray Radioscopic Visualization of Bubbly Flows Injected Through a Top Submerged Lance into a Liquid Metal,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, February 2020.
2022 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Alejandro Abadias Llamas
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Title: MSc.
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Quote: This is the first award that I have ever received because of my work. As a young researcher, these appreciations are very inspiring and a great motivation for us.
Other: “Simulation-Based Exergy and LCA Analysis of Aluminum Recycling: Linking Predictive Physical Separation and Re-melting Process Models with Specific Alloy Production,” Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, March 2020.
2022 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Jose Godinho
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Title: Researcher
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Quote: A great recognition of the good work in my group that motivates me to proceed this work line.
Other: “Simulation-Based Exergy and LCA Analysis of Aluminum Recycling: Linking Predictive Physical Separation and Re-melting Process Models with Specific Alloy Production,” Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, March 2020.
2022 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Juho Hannula
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Title: Technology Specialist
Affiliation: AFRY Finland Oy
Quote: It is with great honor and gratitude that I accept the Best Paper Award TMS has decided to present to my colleagues and me. I am delighted to see that our work is appreciated in the community. My sincere thank you goes also to my research colleagues for the great team work and support.
Other: “Simulation-Based Exergy and LCA Analysis of Aluminum Recycling: Linking Predictive Physical Separation and Re-melting Process Models with Specific Alloy Production,” Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, March 2020.
2022 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Saija Luukkanen
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Title: Professor, Head of Oulu Mining School
Affiliation: University of Oulu
Other: “Simulation-Based Exergy and LCA Analysis of Aluminum Recycling: Linking Predictive Physical Separation and Re-melting Process Models with Specific Alloy Production,” Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, March 2020.
2022 EPD/LMD Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy Best Paper Award
Markus Reuter
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Title: Senior Expert
Affiliation: SMS Group, Düsseldorf
Quote: Metallurgy enables the Circular Economy (CE), the science and engineering embraced by TMS is therefore at the core of the CE. The topic of the paper embraces the fundamentals that describe the CE and enlightens the unique scope of the Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy.
Other: “Simulation-Based Exergy and LCA Analysis of Aluminum Recycling: Linking Predictive Physical Separation and Re-melting Process Models with Specific Alloy Production,” Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, March 2020.
2022 FMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Roger Narayan
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Title: Distinguished Professor
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Quote: TMS has provided me with an opportunity to interact with my colleagues in academia, government, and industry over the past two decades. These interactions have had a significant influence on my choice of research activities and the progression of my career.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Hongyan Du
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Runhua Fan
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Xueyan Fu
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Chuanxin Hou
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Title: Yantai University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Yuliang Jiang
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Rui Tian
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Shengmei Wei
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Wenjin Zhang
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Zidong Zhang
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD JEM Best Paper Award
Guojing Zhao
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Title: Shandong University
Other: “Porous Fe@Fe3O4-C Nanocomposite Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge as Template for Microwave Absorption,” Journal of Electronic Materials, November 2020.
2022 FMD John Bardeen Award
Long-Qing Chen
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Title: Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Quote: I feel truly honored and humbled to receive an award associated with such a giant in science, John Bardeen, a two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics. I would like to express my deep appreciation of all the contributions by the former and current graduate students and postdocs in my group to the body of research work being recognized by this award.
Citation: For pioneering and sustaining theoretical contributions to the understanding of domain structures and properties of electronic oxides.
2022 Light Metals Award
Valdis Bojarevics
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Greenwich
Other: "Contactless Ultrasonic Treatment in Direct Chill Casting", JOM, January 2020
2022 Light Metals Award
Georgi Djambazov
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Title: Principal Lecturer
Affiliation: University of Greenwich
Other: "Contactless Ultrasonic Treatment in Direct Chill Casting", JOM, January 2020
2022 Light Metals Award
Koulis Pericleous
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Greenwich
Other: "Contactless Ultrasonic Treatment in Direct Chill Casting", JOM, January 2020
2022 Light Metals Award
Catherine E.H. Tonry
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Title: Senior Lecturer in Computational Science and Engineering
Affiliation: University of Greenwich
Other: "Contactless Ultrasonic Treatment in Direct Chill Casting", JOM, January 2020
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Jon T. Carter
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Title: Staff Researcher (retired)
Affiliation: General Motors R&D
Quote: For over three decades TMS has helped me connect with peers in the metallurgy/materials profession. It is an honor to be recognized by those peers with a TMS Light Metals Subject Award for our work on high-strength aluminum sheets.
Other: “Review of Retrogression Forming and Reaging for AA7075-T6 Sheet”, Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Louis G. Hector, Jr.
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Title: Technical Fellow
Affiliation: General Motors Global Technical Center
Quote: I give enormous credit to TMS for supporting critical metallurgical research in the United States. The TMS Light Metals Subject Award – Aluminum Alloys that I and my colleagues have been awarded is critically important in this respect. It is a clear demonstration that the contributions of cutting-edge metallurgical research are recognized and the award will serve as a beacon for future generations of metallurgists.
Other: “Review of Retrogression Forming and Reaging for AA7075-T6 Sheet”, Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Katherine Rader
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Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Quote: Thank you for this honor. We are grateful that this culmination of our collaboration between industry and academia has been recognized for its excellence.
Other: “Review of Retrogression Forming and Reaging for AA7075-T6 Sheet”, Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Yeqi Shi
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Title: Graduate Research Assistant
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quote: It's a great honor for me to receive this award. Sharing my work at TMS not only broadens my knowledge about aluminum but also helps me expand connections with the materials community. It encourages me to design aluminum materials with higher wear resistance to reduce energy consumption for a greener world.
Other: “Simulations of Wear-Induced Microstructural Evolution in Nanocrystalline Aluminum,” Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Izabela Szlufarska
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Quote: I am honored to be recognized by this award and TMS, which is a Society where I have a lifetime membership and that is core to my research. Being recognized by TMS strengthens my connection to this professional Society.
Other: “Simulations of Wear-Induced Microstructural Evolution in Nanocrystalline Aluminum,” Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Alloys
Eric Taleff
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Quote: Our research team is very grateful for this recognition by our TMS colleagues. We are pleased to work with them through TMS to advance the state of the art in our field and to further the positive impacts on industry and society from our profession.
Other: “Review of Retrogression Forming and Reaging for AA7075-T6 Sheet”, Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Aluminum Reduction Technology
Xiangwen Wang
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Title: Technology Manager
Affiliation: Alcoa Corporation
Quote: It is my great honor to accept this award. This means a lot to me and my co-authors being recognized by our colleagues in the smelting field. Thank you TMS and those who nominated us for the award!
Other: “Experience with Lengthy Pot Hibernation at Alcoa Baie-Comeau,” Light Metals 2021.
2022 Light Metals Subject Award - Electrode Technology for Aluminum Production
Julien Lauzon-Gauthier
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Title: Research Engineer
Affiliation: Alcoa Corporation
Quote: The Light Metals proceedings have been an important source of information for my work. Therefore, it is an honor to have one of my contribution recognized by this award.
Other: “Development and Applications of the Four Points Probe (4PP) Electrical Resistivity Measurements for Anode Process Optimization,” Light Metals 2021.
2022 LMD Distinguished Service Award
Alan Tomsett
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Title: Technical Manager
Affiliation: Rio Tinto Pacific Operations
Quote: I am honored to be recognized by the LMD with this award and thank my family, employer, fellow committee members, and TMS staff for making it possible. It has been a privilege to support the dissemination of research and innovation to the aluminum industry through my volunteering with TMS. I will always treasure the global network of professional relationships and friendships I have developed.
2022 LMD JOM Best Paper Award
Geoffrey Sigworth
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Title: Consultant
Affiliation: GKS Engineering Services
Other: “Refining of Secondary Aluminum: Important Chemical Factors,” JOM, September 2021.
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Yahia Ali
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Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Affiliation: The University of Queensland
Quote: I would like to thank TMS for the award. I also would like to thank my research teams for the great effort and hard work done leading to winning this award. This award reflects the quality of work we are doing and motivates me to do more research in this area.
Other: “Eutectic Modification of Mg2Si in Mg-Si Alloys for Faster Hydrogen Absorption Kinetics”
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Manjin Kim
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Title: Ph.D. candidate
Affiliation: University of Queensland
Quote: I am overwhelmed with gratitude to have been selected to receive the “LMD Magnesium Technology Award – Best Poster”. TMS membership gave me an opportunity that I could present my work at the TMS2021. I am so honored to have my work recognized by TMS and professional peers. Many efforts went into this work, and this accomplishment is not something that I did alone, and there are many others who deserve to share this award. I would like to thank the co-authors of this paster; Mr. Julio Piraquive, Dr. Yahia Ali, Dr. Stuart D. McDonald, Dr. Trevor B. Abbott, and Prof. Kazuhiro Nogita for their significant contributions to the work.
Other: “Eutectic Modification of Mg2Si in Mg-Si Alloys for Faster Hydrogen Absorption Kinetics”
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Stuart McDonald
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Title: Senior Research Fellow
Affiliation: The University of Queensland
Quote: We appreciate the TMS network and the forum to have this work widely distributed to those at the forefront of alloy development.
Other: “Eutectic Modification of Mg2Si in Mg-Si Alloys for Faster Hydrogen Absorption Kinetics”
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Kazuhiro Nogita
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: The University of Queensland
Quote: I am pleased to be a part of the global TMS network and contribute in the high quality annual conferences.
Other: “Eutectic Modification of Mg2Si in Mg-Si Alloys for Faster Hydrogen Absorption Kinetics”
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Award - Best Poster
Julio Pinzon
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Title: Graduate Engineer
Affiliation: Evocra
Quote: This award represents the hard proof of my endless effort to become good in engineering. My work colleagues, friends, have shaped the man I have become and I'm extremely grateful for it.
Other: “Eutectic Modification of Mg2Si in Mg-Si Alloys for Faster Hydrogen Absorption Kinetics”
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Mingzhe Bian
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Title: Researcher
Affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Quote: I am honored to receive the TMS LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application. I believe this award will help me to develop my career as a physical metallurgist. I am very pleased to be a member of TMS because TMS provides a wonderful platform to share our research outcome and gives us an opportunity to meet and interact with colleagues from across the world annually.
Other: “Toward Development of Strong and Formable Magnesium Alloy Sheets with Bake-Hardenability,” JOM, May 2021.
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Kazuhiro Hono
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Title: Exective Vice President
Affiliation: National Institute for Materials Science
Quote: Great to receive TMS Light Metals Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application for the review paper that summarized our long-term work on age-hardening of low alloy wrought magnesium alloys.
Other: “Toward Development of Strong and Formable Magnesium Alloy Sheets with Bake-Hardenability,” JOM, May 2021.
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Application
Taisuke Sasaki
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Title: Principal researcher
Affiliation: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Quote: It is our great honor to receive this TMS award. This award means peer recognition of our work and encourages us to continue the development of heat treatable wrought magnesium alloys with enthusiasm.
Other: “Toward Development of Strong and Formable Magnesium Alloy Sheets with Bake-Hardenability,” JOM, May 2021.
2022 LMD Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Fundamental Research
Zongrui Pei
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Title: Senior Staff Scientist
Affiliation: New York University
Quote: TMS is really an excellent conference to exchange the ideas and get connected with other community members. I have learned a lot from TMS talks, which significantly affects my career.
Other: “Mechanisms and Machine Learning for Magnesium Alloys Design,” Magnesium Technology 2021.
2022 LMD Technology Award
Dag Mortensen
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Title: Principal Research Scientist
Affiliation: Institute for Energy Technology
Quote: The TMS Light Metals Division Technology Award is a recognition of the work done by the computational materials processing group at the Institute for Energy Technology. Together with national and international academic and industry partners we have developed an advanced modelling tool tailor made for semi-continuous casting of aluminium. The Cast Shop seminars at the TMS Annual Meetings have been valuable for discussions and feedback to our development team.
2022 MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Jian Wang
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Quote: This is a highly prestigious award which recognizes my efforts in understanding structure-properties relations of structural materials. This award will continuously encourage and inspire me to conduct the cutting edge research in the field of materials science and engineering, and serve our society.
2022 MPMD Distinguished Service Award
Corbett Battaile
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Title: Principal Member of Technical Staff
Affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories
Quote: It is my sincere pleasure and honor to receive this award, and I look forward to many more years of service to the MPMD and to TMS. Thank you!
2022 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Christoph Beckermann
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Iowa
Quote: I feel very honored receiving this best paper award from TMS. The paper is the culmination of a decades long struggle to understand shrinkage porosity formation during solidification of metal castings and develop a general modeling framework for use in casting simulation. TMS has always been the main avenue for discussing and presenting my research in material processing.
Other: “Simulation of Shrinkage Porosity Formation During Alloy Solidification,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, May 2020
2022 Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing
Vahid Khalajzadeh
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Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: MEMC
Quote: I am honored to receive this award from TMS. It shows that my hard work has been noticed and appreciated by the experts in the materials science field. Thank you, TMS Foundation!
Other: “Simulation of Shrinkage Porosity Formation During Alloy Solidification,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, May 2020
2022 SMD Distinguished Service Award
Carl Cady
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Title: Research Engineer
Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quote: It has been an honor to work with so many other colleagues that have given their time and energy to make our Society better. I have found that the relationships I have with fellow scientists have become more productive through the opportunities our Society offers in programming, through active participation to technical committees. As well as in volunteering in the many administrative committees within the Society. These relationships have been important in my career development and I see my volunteerism as a positive in my career development.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Joseph Aroh
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Joel Bernier
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Title: Staff Scientist
Affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Andrew Chuang
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Affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Benjamin Gould
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Title: Material Scientist
Affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Rachel Lim
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Seunghee Oh
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Title: Ph.D. Candidate
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Quote: It is an immense honor to have been selected to receive this JOM Best Paper Award. During my Ph.D. program, TMS has presented important opportunities for me to expand my knowledge and to reach TMS memberships by publishing the paper in JOM. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the TMS Foundation for all these. This award will be an excellent motivation-booster that will encourage me to continue doing my best work.
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Niranjan Parab
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Title: Assembly Engineer
Affiliation: Intel Corp.
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Anthony Rollett
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Tao Sun
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
2022 SMD JOM Best Paper Award
Robert Suter
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Title: Professor of Physics
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Other: “Microscale Observation via High-Speed X-ray Diffraction of Alloy 718 During In Situ Laser Melting,” JOM, January 2021.
Young Professionals Awards
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2022 AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award
Ankit Srivastava
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Quote: It is an honor to receive the TMS-AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award and I sincerely hope to live up to the promise of the award. I am extremely grateful to my principal nominator, mentors, colleagues, and TMS. Participating in the activities of TMS has been a rewarding experience and has immensely impacted my professional development.
Citation: For pioneering contributions to microstructural mechanics and exceptional promise of thought leadership in materials design for enhanced mechanical performance.
2022 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award
Fadi Abdeljawad
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Clemson University
Quote: I am very honored and humbled for this recognition by TMS. I am also very grateful to the TMS Foundation for their continued support of early career professionals. Thank you to all my students, mentors, colleagues, and collaborators for their support. Ever since my first TMS Annual Meeting in 2010 as a first-year graduate student, TMS has become home for all my research, professional development, and networking needs. TMS has been instrumental in advancing my career from a graduate student to a Staff Scientist at a U.S. National Laboratory, and now as an Assistant Professor at Clemson University. I look forward to continuing to contribute to TMS in various activities and to advance the fascinating field of Materials Science.
Other: “Interface-driven Phenomena in Materials: From Nanostructuring to Additive Manufacturing”
2022 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award
Yu Zou
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Quote: It has been more than ten years since I attended my first TMS meeting, as a student, in San Diego, California in 2011. TMS has been my academic home through my different career stages – as a master’s student, Ph.D. student, post-doctoral fellow, and now as an Assistant Professor. In TMS I met international leaders in my research field, attended student mixers and career events, and discussed with peers in poster or oral sessions. I enjoyed every moment from TMS. In 2019, I brought two of my Ph.D. students to the TMS meeting and introduced them to this dynamic atmosphere and I am looking forward to bringing more students and young professionals to this community. I am truly grateful for this recognition!
Other: “Tailoring Defects in Alloy Design and Additive Manufacturing: An Analogy with Professional Development”
2022 EPD Young Leaders Professional Development
Mohamed Elzohiery
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Title: Process Engineer
Affiliation: RioTinto - Kennecott Utah Copper
Quote: It is a great honor to receive the 2022 TMS EPD Young Leaders Professional Development award. Being a member of the TMS played a major role in developing my leadership skills, growing my professional experience and keeping me updated with the new research and development in my field. I had the benefit of participating in the TMS annual conference where I was able to publish and present my work as well as grow my professional network by meeting experts and professors in metallurgical engineering from all over the world.
2022 EPD Young Leaders Professional Development
Stuart Nicol
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Title: Metallurgist
Affiliation: Glencore Techology
Quote: The TMS has played an important role in my growth as a metallurgist. I have learned a lot through participating in conferences, meetings, and journals, both from the technical content and from other engineers I have met through these activities. I greatly appreciate the honor of this award, it means a lot to be recognized by others in my industry. I look forward to being active with the TMS EPD and hope that I can give back and encourage others in our industry.
2022 FMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Huanyu "Larry" Cheng
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Title: Dorothy Quiggle Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Quote: I'm humbled to be selected as the recipient of the 2022 FMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award, with opportunities to enhance the professional development of young, dynamic, and committed members through leadership opportunities and networking. I'm also eager to play a more active role in TMS and volunteer leadership positions in the Society in the future. Prepared to broaden the technological profile of TMS in nanomaterials, I look forward to engaging more TMS members in Functional Materials and other Divisions.
2022 FMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Wenzhuo Wu
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Title: Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor
Affiliation: School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Quote: I am grateful and honored to receive the 2022 TMS FMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award! This award will not only provide valuable opportunities for me to get more engaged with TMS but also inspire me to strive towards my long-term career goals. I sincerely appreciate this acknowledgment and generous support from TMS. I look forward to contributing back to the TMS community through increased engagement in technical committees, the FMD division, and the Society.
2022 Frontiers of Materials Award
Mostafa Bedewy
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Quote: TMS is the flagship professional society for a large community of materials scientists and engineers, and I view this award as a perfect opportunity to increase my involvement in TMS activities, especially during the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition. I am grateful for the recognition of my research on nanocarbons through such a competitive award, and I am looking forward to presenting my work at future TMS conferences, starting with organizing a symposium in TMS 2022. This award also highlights TMS's support to emerging areas of scientific research in materials science and engineering, especially those relating to the integration of graphene and related materials in flexible device manufacturing. Indeed, TMS and the broader materials community have always valued and celebrated the diversity of topics and backgrounds under its umbrella.
2022 Frontiers of Materials Award
Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Quote: The award enabled organizing a special symposium session at the TMS annual meeting – it aims to drive us to further the understanding of nano-architectured materials with novel characterization methods, such as advanced microscopy and synchrotron X-ray techniques, that are augmented by data science and machine learning algorithms. Honored and humbled by the opportunity to receive this meaningful award, I am truly grateful to TMS, the award committees, the Nanomaterials Committee, and wonderful symposium co-organizers for their trust and great support. While this award marks an incredible step for my own professional career, I am even more excited to have the opportunity to serve the community by bringing people with a wide range of technical backgrounds and research interests together, in exploring one of the most exciting areas in materials science and engineering in our times!
2022 Frontiers of Materials Award
Andrea Koerdt
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Affiliation: Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Quote: I am deeply honored to receive this award and the resulting boost to my career. There are incredible opportunities through the TMS Frontiers Materials Award and participation in the conference. The biggest challenges in studying Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) is bringing key stakeholders and other disciplines aware of this subject. This award enables me to make new contacts, exchange knowledge, and experience with scientists and experts from other disciplines, learn about other points of view and initiate new collaborations. An outstanding success for me and for the MIC research is the networking potential between scientists, stakeholders, and experts from Europe and the USA.
2022 LMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Matt Pharr
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Quote: I am honored to receive this award. More importantly, I am excited to become more involved in TMS leadership activities, as to play an active role in advancing the ever-evolving field of materials science.
2022 LMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Derek Santangelo
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Title: Global Carbon Practice Lead - Center of Excellence for Aluminium
Affiliation: Hatch Canada
Quote: Proud to be a member of a Society that can bring together the world's collective thoughts for the sake of improving our knowledge and understanding. Even more proud to be recognized as a contributing member of this cause, both now, and for a long time to come.
2022 MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Arun Devaraj
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Title: Senior Research Scientist
Affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Quote: Since 2008, the TMS meetings have been my main avenue to get updated on the latest and greatest in materials research, organize symposiums, attend technical committee meetings, and meet friends and colleagues from across the world in the material science research community. I am honored to receive this 2022 MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award and through this unique opportunity, I am looking forward to contributing more to the long-term growth of the MPMD and the TMS community.
2022 MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Yue Fan
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Quote: I am very grateful for the precious recognition. I have long regarded TMS as my home conference ever since I first attended in 2015, because TMS has provided such a great platform (especially for young professionals) to interact and collaborate with people with diverse backgrounds. Along the path, my journey at TMS has also become more enriched, from simply giving presentations to organizing symposia, editing JOM issues, and serving on both technical and diversity committees. I look forward to continuing to serve and contribute to TMS community and passing such pride to my students and the next STEM generation.
2022 SMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Assel Aitkaliyeva
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Florida
Quote: TMS has played a big role in my scientific career. Attending TMS meetings has always provided me with opportunities to network, learn more about progress made in the field, develop successful collaborations, and share my research, while serving on various committees helped me find my voice and identify topics I am most passionate about. I look forward to contributing to the TMS mission in the future and sharing my experience with my students.
2022 SMD Young Leaders Professional Development
Clinique Brundidge
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Title: Lead Materials Scientist
Quote: The TMS Foundation has been an important resource for my educational and career advancement since 2007. I’m honored to have opportunities to participate and contribute to such a long-standing, prominent international organization. I’m esteemed to receive the highly competitive SMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award and look forward to pursuing more TMS leadership roles.
2022 Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award
Tao Sun
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Quote: I am truly honored to receive this award from TMS! As an X-ray scientist, I had very limited knowledge on additive manufacturing back in 2015, when I initiated this research program at the Advanced Photon Source. My whole team then started to attend TMS sponsored meetings and learn from experienced researchers in this field. The TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition offers the best venue for researchers in academia, government labs, and industry to communicate recent advancements in metal additive manufacturing. Now I consider TMS my home professional society and highly value my interactions with colleagues and friends at the annual meeting and via other TMS activities. I appreciate the community's recognition of our work which was accomplished by the collective efforts of my talented, dedicated, and determined team members and collaborators.
Other: “The Critical Roles of Keyhole in Laser Powder Bed Fusion”
2022 Young Leaders International Scholar - JIM
Victoria Miller
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Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Florida
Quote: Being a part of TMS has shaped and helped to facilitate every stage of my career. As a student, I ran around watching talks and networking, which set me up for my post-doc and faculty position. Now that I am on the tenure-track, TMS Young Leader activities and the International Scholar Award are helping me to broaden my horizons even further--taking me to Japan for the first time!
Student Awards
View this calendar year’s recipients of TMS student scholarships, travel grants, and other awards.
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2022 Acta Materialia, Inc. Undergraduate Scholarship
Gladys Durán Durán
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia
Quote: Being a part of the Material Advantage program gave me the tools to get ready to participate in and solve real problems and this scholarship will support my next step in my journey of material science research. After graduation, I plan to enroll in a master's program related to materials science and engineering focused on the development of new alloys for aerospace industry and renewable energy. I am grateful to the TMS Foundation for recognizing my effort and passion in this field. This is just the beginning!
2022 Acta Materialia, Inc. Undergraduate Scholarship
Andrew Ruba
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Quote: I joined the Iowa State University (ISU) Material Advantage chapter during my freshman year of college. This was an excellent place to learn about the larger materials science and engineering community, as well as the various opportunities and experiences that the field offers. I am deeply grateful to both TMS and Acta Materialia Inc. for providing exposure, aid, and professional growth opportunities to undergraduate students. I will graduate in the fall of 2022 from ISU, and I look forward to working in R&D of advanced polymers or polymer composites.
2022 AIME Henry DeWitt Smith Scholarship
Jennifer Bustillos
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Cornell University
Quote: I am tremendously honored and grateful to have been selected as a Henry deWitt Smith Scholar. As an active Material Advantage member (since my undergraduate studies), I was eager to participate in TMS student competitions and academic symposia. These opportunities presented by TMS have allowed me to interface with industry partners and students from all around the world to develop the necessary communication and networking skills to excel as a graduate student and professional in the future.
2022 AIME Henry DeWitt Smith Scholarship
Ho Lun Chan
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Title: Graduate Student
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Quote: This scholarship award serves not only as a generous financial support to academic studies, but also as a recognition to my continuing efforts to learn and prosper as an emerging professional in the field of materials science. In 2018, I self-attended the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition as an undergraduate student having no clue about what materials science is. TMS and its conferences gave me exposure to the latest of the greatest that I would not be able to learn in school and defined my academic as well as professional goals.”
2022 EPD Scholarship
Jennifer Johnson
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Title: Student
Affiliation: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Quote: It is such an honor to be selected for the TMS EPD Scholarship! This scholarship will allow me to continue in my goal, since middle school, of graduating college debt-free. I am also very excited to have the opportunity to attend the TMS 2022 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in California and be surrounded by industry leaders and researchers in the metallurgy field!
2022 EPD Scholarship
Madison Pixler
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Quote: I would like to thank the awards committee for selecting me as this year’s 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.
2022 EPD Scholarship
Madison Rutherford
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Quote: Thanks to my involvement in TMS and to the professors who supported me along the way, I have been able to determine what I want to do with my future and gained confidence in eventually pursuing a Ph.D. in materials science. I hope to continue researching sustainable methods of material production and recycling. I'm honored to have received the EPD Scholarship and am proud of the work I have done so far and what is to come.
2022 FMD Gilbert Chin Scholarship
Tylee Oldham
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Quote: TMS and the TMS Foundation have provided a plethora of scholarship, networking, and materials-related sources that are truly valuable to its members. As an out-of-state top scholar in a collegiate materials engineering program, TMS has enabled me to connect to others in my field and develop strong engineering ties through networking. I am excited to see my future with the assistance of TMS to help with my college support and resources.
2022 International Symposium on Superalloys Scholarship
Preston Nguyen
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Title: Graduate Student Researcher
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Quote: The TMS Superalloys Scholarship is a significant milestone for me that indicates that all the hard work I have put forth and all the obstacles I had to overcome were worth the effort. TMS and Material Advantage has helped me improve my interpersonal and professional skills. I hope to use the skills that TMS and Material Advantage have helped me develop to pursue further materials research in superalloys.
2022 International Symposium on Superalloys Scholarship
Rafael Rodriguez De Vecchis
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Title: Graduate Student
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Quote: I am very thankful and honored to TMS for this award. This scholarship represents a recognition of the hard work accomplished and a strong encouragement to continue pursuing excellence in the materials science field. I am excited for this opportunity as this award constitutes strong support to continue my studies and research work in the field of Superalloys.
2022 Kaufman CALPHAD Scholarship
Michael Bohnet
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Title: Student
Affiliation: Louisiana State University
Quote: I am honored to receive the Kaufman CALPHAD scholarship and I would like to thank the TMS Foundation for making this opportunity possible. This scholarship will help ease my financial burden as I pursue my master’s degree in Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
2022 LMD Scholarship
Jarrett Loseke
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Affiliation: Iowa State University
Quote: “I am very thankful to be receiving the 2022 Light Metals Division scholarship. TMS and Material Advantage provide numerous opportunities for learning and connecting with others, offering me a significant advantage in my studies and search for an internship, research, or a job further down the road. I am extremely grateful for the opportunities provided and am excited to continue my education as an undergraduate.”
2022 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award- Student
Fang Dong
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Affiliation: Northeastern University
Quote: I am very happy to receive this award during my graduate study. During my postgraduate study, I actively participated in this scientific research and carried out research around physical simulation. Thanks to the TMS organizing committee for providing a good platform for academic exchange and recognition of our scientific research achievements.
Other: “Hydrodynamics of Gas-Liquid Two-phase Flow in Reverse Spray Washing Process,” Energy Technology 2021.
2022 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award- Student
Xiao-long Li
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Affiliation: Northeastern University
Quote: I am very grateful to the TMS organizing committee for providing a great platform for academic exchange and recognizing my work. This award is a great encouragement to me and encourages me to do more in-depth scientific research. In the future, I will attend more TMS meetings and exchange my research results.
Other: “Hydrodynamics of Gas-Liquid Two-phase Flow in Reverse Spray Washing Process,” Energy Technology 2021.
2022 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award- Student
Yan Liu
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Title: Professor
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Quote: I am very happy to receive this award and thank the TMS organizing committee for providing a good platform for academic exchange. This award recognizes, motivates, and inspires me and my students. We will continue to actively carry out scientific research and actively participate in TMS meetings.
Other: “Hydrodynamics of Gas-Liquid Two-phase Flow in Reverse Spray Washing Process,” Energy Technology 2021.
2022 LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award- Student
Gui-li Liu
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Affiliation: Northeastern University
Quote: I am very excited to receive this award and thank the TMS organizing committee for providing a good platform for academic exchange and recognizing our scientific research achievements. During my postgraduate studies, I designed the first physical model of turbulent scrubber for smelting flue gas cleaning, built a complete set of experimental research platforms. I believe that our team will continue to work hard in this direction and achieve more innovative research results.
Other: “Hydrodynamics of Gas-Liquid Two-phase Flow in Reverse Spray Washing Process,” Energy Technology 2021.
2022 MPMD Scholarship
Megan Burrill
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Affiliation: Illinois Institute of Technology
Quote: “Participation in Material Advantage, and in particular the TMS Bladesmithing program, has been influential in my aspirations as a materials scientist. TMS Bladesmithing ignited my love for materials science, and I sought every opportunity to learn more. . Working with the graduate students I met through Bladesmithing, I began performing research during my second semester of college and have worked on a wide variety of projects. In addition, I have been the project leader for Bladesmithing, providing me with the valuable experience of leading a research project and presenting the results at the TMS 2020 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. All these experiences make me excited to take on the challenge of a Ph.D. in materials science and I look forward to using computational methods to inform and accelerate the experimental discovery of novel battery materials.”
2022 SMD Scholarship
Sheron Tavares
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Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Quote: "The TMS Foundation is a component of one of the most important societies in the world—TMS. I feel honored to be part of this institution. I am completely happy to have been awarded this scholarship. This award represents my passion and dedication to the field of materials science. hope
2022 TMS Best Paper Contest - Graduate - 1st Place
Di Xie
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Quote: "It is a great honor for me to receive this award. I would like to express sincere gratitude to the TMS Foundation and Material Advantage, which offer me a great opportunity to communicate with many excellent researchers about the state-the-art investigations and progress in my field. This award will boost my confidence in my current academic study and surely inspire me to further progress in my academic and research endeavors.
Other: “Plastic anisotropy and twin distributions near the fatigue crack tip of textured Mg alloys from in situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction measurements and multiscale mechanics modeling”
2022 TMS Best Paper Contest - Graduate - 2nd Place
Rakesh Kamath
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Title: Student
Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Quote: It is a huge honor to be recognized by one of the most renowned international professional organizations in the materials science community. I am very much thankful to the TMS Foundation for selecting me as the recipient amongst many of my highly qualified peers. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Hahn Choo, and mentor, Suresh Babu, for their constant guidance and encouragement throughout my dissertation research. I strongly believe this recognition will serve me well, both as a springboard for my future career and a source of inspiration that will enable me to give my best to materials research.
Other: “In-situ, dynamic synchrotron x-ray radiography studies on melt pool evolution and solidification kinetics during laser fusion processing of Ti-6Al-4V”