Members of the Materials Research Society have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2016) and five directors to join the 2015 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 treas-urer (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 September 19, 2014.
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.
2015 MRS Officers
President
Oliver Kraft
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Immediate Past President
Tia Benson Tolle
The Boeing Company
Vice President (President-Elect)
* Kristi Anseth
University of Colorado Boulder
Secretary
Sean J. Hearne
Sandia National Laboratories
Treasurer
Michael R. Fitzsimmons
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Executive Director
Todd M. Osman
Materials Research Society
2015 Board of Directors
* Charles T. Black (2017)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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
Sossina M. Haile (2015)
California Institute of Technology
Andrea M. Hodge (2015)
University of Southern California
Hideo Hosono (2016)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
* Karen L. Kavanagh (2017)
Simon Fraser University
Fiona C. Meldrum (2015)
University of Leeds
Kornelius Nielsch (2016)
University of Hamburg
* Christine Ortiz (2017)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Sabrina Sartori (2017)
University of Oslo
Eric A. Stach (2015)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Loucas Tsakalakos (2016)
General Electric–Global Research Center
* Anke Weidenkaff (2017)
University of Stuttgart
