Board of Directors
The MRS Board of Directors is composed of elected officers and directors. Directors are elected for three-year terms with one third of the board changing each year. The president-elect serves three years (as president-elect, president and past president); the secretary is elected for a three-year term; and the treasurer is appointed yearly by the Board. Members of the Board may serve on the Board’s committees (Executive, Finance and Audit, Governance, Nominating), Board task forces or other ad hoc efforts commissioned by the Board.
2024 MRS Officers
Expiration of Board term follows name
Takao Someya ('25) The University of Tokyo
Sabrina Sartori ('24) University of Oslo
Eric A. Stach ('26) University of Pennsylvania
Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines ('25) Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Shenda Baker ('25) Synedgen Inc.
Todd M. Osman Materials Research Society
Directors
Stanford University
Southern Connecticut State University
Lam Research Corporation
Georgia Institute of Technology
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
University of Pennsylvania
Yonsei University
Stanford University
Applied Materials, Inc
Purdue University
University of Waterloo
Georgia Institute of Technology
MRS/Optica Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship
MRS and Optica offer a congressional fellowship for members to apply optical and materials science in government, promoting scientist-government collaboration and public policy learning. The 2024-25 Fellow is Shriya Pai, University of Colorado Boulder
