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Charles Ward

Dr. Charles H. Ward is the 2023 recipient of the Acta Materialia Hol-lomon Award for Materials and Society.

Dr. Ward received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering and Mate-rials Science, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science andEngineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His professional careerhas spanned 36 years, serving in several roles in research, engineering,and technology leadership. After 20 years of service as an active-dutyAir Force Officer, he spent the last 16 years as a civilian in the Materi-als and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory(AFRL).

Dr. Ward’s personal research focused on the microstructure-propertyrelationships in titanium and titanium aluminide alloys. While leadingthe basic research program in metals at the Air Force Office of Scien-tific Research from 1993 to 1997, he initiated efforts in understandinghigh cycle fatigue failure of titanium alloys, damage mechanisms in ti-tanium aluminides, as well as research in refractory and bulk metallicglass alloys. Afterwards, he served as lead engineer for the F-35 propul-sion program, staff officer to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force forAcquisition, and Air Force liaison for materials research and develop-ment in Europe.

In 2006 he became Chief of AFRL’s Metals, Ceramics and Nondestruc-tive Evaluation Division. Here he started initiatives in materials devel-opment for extreme environments, supporting both future hypersonicflight as well as advanced jet engine applications. He also spearheadedAFRL’s new effort in Integrated Computational Materials Science andEngineering (ICMSE), which sought to accelerate research within thefield of materials science and engineering. While in this role, he was in-strumental in helping build the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI),which was announced by President Obama in 2011. MGI seeks to halvethe time needed to discover, develop, and deploy materials and do so ata fraction of the cost. In 2012, Dr. Ward became AFRL’s Lead for ICMSE,and subsequently Co-Chair of the MGI Subcommittee under the Officeof Science and Technology Policy. In these roles, he focused on devel-oping the policies and infrastructure necessary to develop a materialsdata infrastructure, which is critical to supporting the concept of openscience while also enabling the use of new technologies such as artificialintelligence to advance the field of materials science and engineering.Also in 2012, he became the founding Editor-in-Chief of Integrating Ma-terials and Manufacturing Innovation (IMMI). IMMI was established byThe Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) as a peer- reviewedjournal featuring the products of MGI-related research.

In 2017, Dr. Ward assumed the role of Chief of AFRL’s Manufactur-ing and Industrial Technologies Division. Here he led the Air Force’s$178 million annual investment in Manufacturing Technology, whichaims to increase producibility and reduce manufacturing cost and riskfor technology insertion into Air Force weapon systems. In this role,he established the first in-house research effort within the Departmentof Defense focused on bringing the fields of materials and manufactur-ing together to advance the state-of-the-art in digital manufacturing. Healso provided execution oversight of $2.4 billion in the Defense Pro-duction Act Title Ill program, which establishes, modernizes, and main-tains critical industrial capabilities for the U.S. From 2021 to 2022 Dr.Ward served as Acting Director of AFRL’s Materials and Manufactur-ing Directorate. In this role, he led the Department of the Air Force’sscience and technology programs in functional materials, structural ma-terials, manufacturing technology, and systems support for advanced,next-generation space, missile, and aircraft applications. The Materialsand Manufacturing Directorate consists of a workforce of more than 900people with an annual budget in excess of $900 million.

Dr. Ward will receive the Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Ma-terials and Society during the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA,March 19 -23, 2023.

Alexander Michaelis

The recipient of the 2022 Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Materials and Society is Professor Dr. Alexander Michaelis, president of Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS, Dresden, and Full Professor for Ceramics at Technical University of Dresden in Germany.

Professor Michaelis studied physics at the University of Diisseldorf, Germany where he earned his Ph.D. and state doctorate (habil) in materials science and electrochemistry. In 1995 he became faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA working on high temperature superconductors YBCO. In 1996 he switched to Siemens Inc. working as senior process integration engineer in the field of microelectronics in East Fishkill, New York. In 2000, he started to work for the corporate research department of the chemical company Bayer AG in Leverkusen, Germany and the Bayer subsidiary H.C. Starck GmbH, heading the New Business Development department. At that time, he also was appointed as the managing director of the Dutch fuel cell company InDEC BV.

Since 2004, Professor Michaelis is president of Fraunhofer IKTS with more than 800 employees and a yearly budget of over 77 Mio €. Additionally, he is full professor for Ceramics at TU Dresden and has received numerous awards. He is an academician of the “World Academy of Ceramics WAC”, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the European Ceramic Society (ECerS). Since 2019 he is also the president of the German Ceramic Society (DKG e.V.) and the FDKG e.V. (Research organization of DKG).

His research covers the entire field of technical ceramics including structural and functional ceramic materials and components. Currently he focuses on battery and fuel cell development (conventional and solid-state Li-lon batteries, NaNiCl high temperature batteries, solid oxide fuel cells). In the reverse mode SOFC fuel cells can be used for production of green hydrogen. These so called solid oxide electrolysis systems offer an up to 30% higher efficiency in power to hydrogen conversion than competing technologies such as alkaline or PEM electrolysis. Furthermore, SOE is co-electrolysis capable i.e., a direct production of syngas (CO and H;) using environmental CO, is possible making SOE even CO, negative. Therefore, SOE technology is ideally suitable for PtX and closed cycle applications.

Professor Michaelis will receive the Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Materials and Society during the 2022 TMS Spring Meeting to be held in Anaheim, California, February 27 — March 3, 2022.

Alexander H. King

The 2019 recipient of the Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Materials and Society is Dr. Alexander H. King, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. Dr. King will receive his award during the 2019 TMS Spring Meeting and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. King recently completed a five-year term as the founder and Director of the US Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute – one of DOE’s four Energy Innovation Hubs. He is also a former Director of DOE’s Ames Laboratory, in Ames, Iowa. The Critical Materials Institute is a consortium of four DOE national labs, seven universities and a dozen corporations, and is considered to be a model of collaboration and productivity. It is one of four Energy Innovation Hubs formed to accelerate scientific discovery of critical energy technologies.

Dr. King was born and raised in London. He was an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield and earned his doctorate from Oxford. He was a post doctoral fellow at Oxford and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he also served as the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies (Dean of the Graduate School). He was the Head of the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue in from 1999 to 2007, the Director of DOE’s Ames Laboratory from 2008 until 2013, and became the Founding Director of the Critical Materials Institute when the Ames Lab was awarded its funding.

Dr. King is a Fellow of the Institute of Mining Minerals and Materials; ASM International; and the Materials Research Society. He was also a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1996 and a US Department of State Jefferson Science Fellow for 2005-06.

He served as the President of MRS for 2002, Chair of the University Materials Council of North America for 2006-07, Co-chair of the Gordon Conference on Physical Metallurgy for 2006, and Chair of the APS Interest Group on Energy Research and Applications for 2010.

In 2013, Dr.King delivered a TEDx talk on critical materials and was the TMS & ASM Distinguished Lecturer on Materials and Society in 2017. He maintains research interests in the atomic-scale behavior of grain boundaries, but most of his recent work has focused on understanding the dynamics of materials supply-chain failures and implementing effective strategies to avoid or alleviate them.

Julie Christodoulou

The recipient of the 2018 Acta Materialia Inc. Hollomon Award for Materials and Society is Dr. Julie Christodoulou, Director of the Naval Materials Division in the Sea Warfare and Weapons Department of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Virginia.

Her role is to drive foundational research in the physical sciences, materials and processing, and environmental quality; and enhanced performance, affordability and reliability derived from this research to the men and women on the “Watch”. Specifically, Dr. Christodoulou guides materials research and development from the atomic and molecular level to engineered materials systems and platforms; technologies to ensure environmental quality; and early device concepts for power and energy applications. A unifying theme to the body of work is the development and integration of computational and experimental tools and the protocols to quantify chemical and physical phenomena, accelerate materials implementation, and predict component-level performance.

Complementing this, she is active in national and international initiatives, including the Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness, serving on the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee; and the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, by establishing and guiding one of the National Network of Manufacturing Institutes focused on metals for reduced system weight. Dr. Christodoulou is a leader of the Department of Defense-wide Community of Interest for Materials and Manufacturing Processes and the US lead to the Materials Group of The Technical Collaboration Program, an international collaborative body for defense research and engineering programs.

Dr. Christodoulou holds a BS in metallurgical engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, an MS in materials science and engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, and a doctorate in materials science at Imperial College, London. Prior to her current position, she has served as a Materials Researcher for Martin Marietta Laboratories and the Naval Research Lab, focusing on the processing-structure-performance relationships of intermetallics and piezoelectric ceramics, and environmental degradation of structural materials, respectively. She has served as an Associate Director for high-temperature materials at the London International Field office of ONR (now ONR Global) and as an ONR Program Officer for structural metals. Active in the technical community, she has been recognized with the 2013 Leadership Award by TMS, is an ASM Fellow, and has been honored to present the Materials and Society plenary lecture at MS&T 2016. She is a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service (2015). The Acta Materialia Hollomon Award will be presented In February 2018 at the TMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

Tresa Pollack

The recipient of the 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Hollomon Materials & Society Award is Dr. Tresa M. Pollock, the Alcoa Professor of Materials at the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Pollock specializes in the mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments, unique high temperature materials processing paths, ultrafast laser-material interactions, alloy and coating design and 3-D materials science for prediction of the properties of structural and functional materials. She has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) since 2005 and has served in a number of leadership positions in professional societies, government and academia.

Dr. Pollock, whose career has spanned from industry to academia, was employed at General Electric Aviation and Allison Gas Turbine (now Rolls Royce) during the 1980’s, involved in research and development on high temperature alloys and coatings. She was a co-inventor of the GE single crystal turbine airfoil alloy, René N6. Pollock served as the L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor from 2000 – 2009 and the Alcoa Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where she progressed from Assistant to Associate to Full Professor from 1991 – 1999. Born in Springfield, Ohio, Dr. Pollock received an undergraduate degree from Purdue University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.

With over 250 peer reviewed scientific publications, her recent research has focused on thermal barrier coating systems, a new class of intermetallic-containing high temperature cobalt-base alloys, materials for hypersonic flight, lightweight materials and structures, new growth processes for nickel- and cobalt-base alloy single crystals and femtosecond laser – material interactions. Her research group has recently developed a unique femtosecond laser-aided 3-D tomography technique which uses ultrashort laser pulses to ablate material layer-by-layer, permitting acquisition of mesoscale 3D multimodal datasets with nanometerscale resolution and unprecedented speed. Dr. Pollock has served on the advisory committees for the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation and the Los Alamos Institutes. She is also the recipient of the 2014 ASM Gold Medal and is a Fellow of TMS and ASM.

Professor Pollock chaired the 2008 NAE Study on Integrated Computational Engineering (ICME), which significantly contributed to the development of the White House Materials Genome Initiative and the development of a broad set of US Federal research programs that aim to develop computational, experimental and data/informatics tools that permit new materials to be developed twice as fast at a fraction of the cost, compared to what is currently possible. She delivered the Keynote Lecture at the 1st World Congress on International Computational Materials Engineering (2011) and served on the International Advisory Committee for the 2nd World Congress (2013). She was also co-organizer of the Materials Genome Grand Challenges Summit (2013) and the 2nd International Congress on 3D Materials Science (2014Professor Pollock has provided leadership in the development of early career professionals in Materials Science and on improving diversity in the engineering profession. As Vice President and President of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (2004 – 2005), she developed new programs for early career professionals and junior faculty in Materials. The NSF International Center for Materials Research (ICMR), directed by Pollock since 2010, provides support for students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty to engage in international research exchanges and to develop international collaborations through workshops and summer schools. From 2006 – 2009 she served as lead organizer of the NAE US – German Frontiers of Engineering meetings, that bring together emerging academic, industrial and government engineering leaders from each country for exchanges of leading-edge engineering research and to facilitate international collaborations. Dr. Pollock also served on the Advisory Board and was an active participant in the NSF-Advance program at the University of Michigan (2001 – 2006), which developed programs and initiatives on recruiting, retention and leadership for women faculty in science and engineering. Most recently she served as an advisory organizer of the 2014 TMS Summit on Diversity in the Minerals, Metals and Materials Professions, held at the National Academy of Science.

The Acta Materialia, Inc. Hollomon Award in Materials and Society was established in memory of Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon and his dedication to promoting positive social consequences of science and technology that have had a major impact on society. The Award consists of a glass sculpture, an inscribed certificate and a cash honorarium.

Dr. Pollock was selected as the 2015 awardee by an international panel of judges appointed by the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia, Inc. and will receive this prestigious award in March 2015 during the TMS Annual meeting in Orlando, FL.

Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr.

​The winner of the 2014 Acta Materialia Hollomon Materials & Society Award is Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University. He is also a Senior Metallurgist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory and Chief Scientist of DOE’s newest Energy Innovation Hub – the Critical Materials Institute. Karl has been working on rare earths since his graduate student days when he started working with his mentor Distinguished Professor Frank H. Spedding, known as the “father of rare earths,” and Dr. Adrian H. Daane in 1952 when he started preparing high purity rare earth metals and studied the rare earth carbides. After graduation from Iowa State University he joined the plutonium physical metallurgy group at the Los Alamost National Laboratory, and, in addition to working on delta-stabilized plutonium (δ-Pu) alloys, he studied the temperature-pressure phase diagram of cerium.