Members of the Materials Research Society have elected a Vice President (who will serve as President in 2014), a Secretary, and five directors to join the 2014 MRS Board of Directors. The Board is composed of the officers and 12 to 21 directors, established by Board resolution.
The officers of the Society are the president (who serves as chair of the Board), the vice president (who is also the president-elect), the secretary, the treasurer (a position appointed by the Board of Directors), and the immediate past president. Terms of office expire at the end of the year indicated in parentheses. The asterisk (*) designates those who are newly elected. The annual election ended October 16, 2013.
The Board of Directors is organized into the following governing committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight, and Planning. Chairs and Members of the committees are either designated by policy or are appointed by the president.
2014 MRS Officers
President
Tia Benson Tolle
The Boeing Company
Immediate Past President
Orlando Auciello
University of Texas at Dallas
Vice President (President-Elect)
* Oliver Kraft
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Secretary
* Sean J. Hearne
Sandia National Laboratories
Treasurer
Michael R. Fitzsimmons
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2014 Board of Directors
Shenda M. Baker (2014)
Synedgen, Inc.
* Alexandra Boltasseva (2016)
Purdue University
* C. Jeffrey Brinker (2016)
Sandia National Laboratories
and University of New Mexico
David Cahen (2015)
Weizmann Institute of Science
Stephen J. Eglash (2015)
Stanford University
Chang-Beom Eom (2014)
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan Ermer (2014)
Lockheed Martin
Eric Garfunkel (2014)
Rutgers University
Sossina M. Haile (2015)
California Institute of Technology
Andrea M. Hodge (2015)
University of Southern California
* Hideo Hosono (2016)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
* Kornelius Nielsch (2016)
University of Hamburg
Fiona C. Meldrum (2015)
University of Leeds
Eric A. Stach (2015)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Stephen K. Streiffer (2014)
Argonne National Laboratory
* Loucas Tsakalakos (2016)
General Electric—Global
Research Center
