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Planning Committee Biographical Information

HAYDN N.G. WADLEY, Chair, is the University Professor and the Edgar A. Starke Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Dr. Wadley has broad interests in materials science, mechanics, and thermal transport. His current research explores high-temperature thermal protection systems (thermal barrier coatings, liquid metal heat plates for hypersonic vehicle leading edges, jet blast deflectors) and new materials for the mitigation of high-intensity dynamic loads (ballistic and blast protection materials and structures). Dr. Wadley has addressed many fundamental questions associated with the atomic assembly of nanoscopic materials from the vapor phase, the topological structuring of cellular materials, and the processing of high-performance composites. These fundamental studies have been used to develop models and numerical simulations that reveal the linkages between a materials composition/synthesis and its performance. Some of these models have been coupled with in situ ultrasonic and electromagnetic sensors as well as nonlinear feedback control algorithms to implement intelligent process control concepts. Dr. Wadley has invented and commercialized several vapor deposition technologies that enable the growth of novel thin films and coatings, and numerous multifunctional cellular materials including those that support stress while also serving as impact energy absorbers, heat exchange media, electrochemical power storage systems, or shape-morphing structures. His research group has spun out two companies: one that develops novel coatings and another that manufactures high-performance cellular materials. Dr. Wadley has served on the Defense Science Board’s Summer Study, and is a current member of the Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure Committee

and the National Materials and Manufacturing Board. He has been a member of the Defense Science Research Council since 1998 and has led studies on a wide variety of topics including jungle warfare technology, exploitation of space, counter ambush technologies, blast injury mitigation, novel concepts for protection from EFPs, compact power systems, electro-textiles, countermeasures to nontraditional threat agents, and technologies for stabilization, reconstruction, and humanitarian relief operations. Dr. Wadley has published 448 papers and co-authored a book on cellular materials, holds 21 U.S. patents, and is a fellow of the American Society for Materials.

ROBERT HULL is the head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department and the Henry Burlage Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that, Dr. Hull spent about a decade at Bell Laboratories in the Physics Research Division and 12 years at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he was the director of a National Science Foundation MRSEC Center and director of the UVA Institute for Nanoscale and Quantum Science. He received his Ph.D. in materials science from Oxford University in 1983. Dr. Hull is highly active in engineering and materials science societies and professional groups. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and of the Materials Research Society (MRS), and in 1997 served as president of the Materials Research Society. Dr. Hull has also chaired a Gordon Research Conference on Thin Films, and chaired the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research. Within the realms of materials and nanoscience, Dr. Hull’s research focuses on the relationships between structure and property in electronic materials, fundamental mechanisms of thin film growth, data mining of large materials sets, and the self-assembly of nanoscale structures. Other areas of interest include degradation modes in electronic and optoelectronic devices, the properties of dislocations in semiconductors, nanoscale fabrication techniques, nanoscale tomographic reconstruction techniques, development of new nanoelectronic architectures, and the theory and application of electron and ion beams.

E. WARD PLUMMER is a professor of physics and a special assistant to the vice chancellor for research at Louisiana State University. In the past, Dr. Plummer worked as a postdoctoral student with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was the William Smith Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and also became the director of the Materials Research Laboratory in 1990. He was appointed jointly to the University of Tennessee as a distinguished professor and to Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a distinguished scientist. Dr. Plummer has served on many national and international committees both to review existing scientific programs and to identify future directions for science and technology. Dr. Plummer has served as chair of the Department of Energy (DOE)-sponsored “Workshop on

Soft X-Ray Science in the Next Millennium: The Future of Photon-In/Photon-Out Experiments,” Pikeville, Tennessee, March 15-18, 2000. He was the chair of DOE-Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) subpanel for the evaluation of the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source at Argonne National Laboratory and the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center. Dr. Plummer served as a member of the DOE-BESAC from 2001-2007. He chaired the Chinese Academy of Science Expert Assessment Committee of the Institute of Physics in Beijing, December 2013.

TRESA POLLOCK is the Alcoa Professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Pollock’s research focuses on the mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments, unique high-temperature materials processing paths, ultrafast laser-material interactions, alloy design, and three-dimensional (3D) materials characterization. Dr. Pollock graduated with a B.S. from Purdue University in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. She was employed at General Electric Aircraft Engines from 1989 to 1991, where she conducted research and development on high-temperature alloys for aircraft turbine engines using data analysis and co-developed the single crystal alloy René N6 (now in service). Dr. Pollock was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 1999 and at the University of Michigan from 2000 to 2010. Her recent research has focused on development of new femtosecond laser-aided 3D tomography techniques, numerical models, damage detection and modeling by resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, thermal barrier coatings systems, new intermetallic-containing cobalt-base materials, nickel base alloys for turbine engines, lightweight magnesium alloys, Heusler-based thermoelectrics, and bulk nanolaminates. Dr. Pollock was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2015, and is a Vannevar Bush Fellow and fellow of TMS and ASM International. She serves as editor in chief of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions family of journals and was the 2005-2006 president of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society.

LOURDES SALAMANCA-RIBA is a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Maryland’s Energy Innovation Institute. Dr. Salamanca-Riba received her B.S. in physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and her Ph.D. in physics from MIT. Dr. Salamanca-Riba’s research is in the areas of 3D microstructure characterization using computational methods and data analysis, self-assembly of semiconductor nanowires and liquid crystal nanocomposites for hybrid photovoltaic applications, DNA-based biosensors and radiation sensors on GaAs, materials with high carbon content in the form of nanocarbon called “covetics,” and wide bandgap semiconductors for high-power, high-temperature

electronics. Dr. Salamanca-Riba’s research involves the use of the transmission electron microscopes and the atomic force microscope at the Advanced Imaging and Microscopy (AIM) Laboratory. She is a member of the APS, the Electron Microscopy Society of America, and the MRS.

SUSAN SINNOTT is a professor and department head of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Sinnott received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin, and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Iowa State University. She was a National Research Council postdoctoral associate at the Naval Research Laboratory and was on the faculty at the University of Kentucky prior to joining the University of Florida in 2000. Dr. Sinnott’s research is focused on the use of electronic structure calculations and atomistic simulations to optimize the processing and properties of materials. Her research interests include examining the chemical modification of polymer surfaces through mass-selected ion-beam deposition, exploring the dynamics associated with the growth of thin films, developing new methodologies for the atomistic simulation of materials, using atomic-scale simulations to study the catalytic behavior of metal clusters, investigating the molecular origin of friction and wear at interfaces, and combining electronic structure and thermodynamic calculations to predict defect formation in metal oxides. Dr. Sinnott is the author of over 160 technical publications, including over 140 journal publications and 8 book chapters; she has also delivered over 120 invited presentations. She is a member of the American Vacuum Society (AVS), American Ceramic Society (ACerS), American Chemical Society, APS, MRS, and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and was named a fellow of AVS in 2005. Dr. Sinnott was named a fellow of ACerS in 2011 and a fellow of the AAAS in 2010.