NSF Division of Materials Research—The Year in Review and a Brief Look Forward

Biography

Germano Iannacchione is the Division Director for the Division of Materials Research (DMR) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Iannacchione holds a PhD degree in physics from Kent State University and held postdoctoral research appointments in physics at Kent State University and in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1998, he has held a primary appointment in physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he served as Department Head of Physics from 2006 to 2016 and as the Founding Director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program and the Master of Science in Physics for Educators Program from 2012 to 2017. Iannacchione previously served as the NSF Program Director in Condensed Matter Physics from 2017 to 2020 and in Biomaterials from 2018 to 2019. On January 30, 2023, he joined the NSF as DMR Division Director.