Congratulations to the 2018 TMS Young Leaders

JOM, Feb 2018

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Congratulations to the 2018 TMS Young Leaders

JOM Congratulations to the 2018 TMS Young Leaders 0 TMS Foundation 5700 Corporate Drive Suite 750 Pittsburgh, PA 15237 , USA The opportunities outlined by the young professionals highlighted in this article would not be possible without the TMS Foundation and its commitment to developing the next generation of minerals, metals, and materials scientists and engineers. Visit www.TMSFoundation.org to learn more about the TMS Foundation and to help continue its important work through an online donation. Please direct donations by mail to: - For more than two decades, the TMS in nurturing the careers of early career professionals by funding the TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Awards program. Many of these award recipients have gone on to hold leadership positions on the TMS Board of Directors and various committees, while also actively shaping the programming, publication content, and TMS as a professional society. A number of them cite the access to high-level networking, recognition, and mentoring that was opened to them as TMS Young Leaders as a turning point in their professional development and engagement with the Society. The 2018 TMS Young Leaders introduced on these pages join the ranks of past honorees who have now positioned themselves in the vanguard of the next generation of minerals, metals, and materials professionals. They will formally accept their awards at the TMS2018 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, March 11–15, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona. Please congratulate them in person, if you have a chance, as they take this next important step on their professional journey. Jacob McMurray Fiseha Tesfaye Niaz Abdolrahim Stephen McDonnell 2018 Young Leaders Professional Development Award Recipients EXTRACTION & PROCESSING DIVISION (EPD) FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS DIVISION (FMD) Jacob McMurray “The TMS Foundation has student and now as an early career professional,” says Jake McMurray a member of the research staff in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “The Young Leaders Professional Development Award is an opportunity to develop my leadership skills, present my current research, and grow my professional network, particularly with prominent TMS members.” McMurray currently manages several projects that are a part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fuel Cycle Research and Development Accident Tolerant Fuel campaign in computational and experimental materials thermodynamics. Niaz Abdolrahim “The TMS Foundation has always provided great academic and career opportunities to me from the early days of my graduate studies,” noted Niaz Abdolrahim, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Rochester. “As a junior faculty member, engaging in various TMS events and activities was always very rewarding to me as I got more involved with my research community and gained more support and experience.” Abdolrahim’s research uses computational techniques to predict the performance of nanoscale metallic materials (NMMs) based on their governing deformation mechanisms. scale modeling of nanoscale metallic multilayers, the computational prediction of the structure of semicoherent interfaces, the use of core-shell structures, and the mechanisms that control the deformation of nanoporous metals under equilibrium and non-equilibrium shock loading conditions. Fiseha Tesfaye Fiseha Tesfaye is an academy postdoctoral researcher and project manager in the Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His achievements include research in solidstate electrochemistry for thermodynamic studies of chalcogenide materials, and contribution of new experimental thermodynamic data for several alloys and compounds. He has published more than 27 peer-reviewed articles and given presentations at leading metallurgical conferences. “ both as a graduate student and now as an early career professional.” —Jacob McMurray Stephen McDonnell An assistant professor at the University of Virginia (UVA), Stephen McDonnell has currently focused his research interests on the integration of 2D materials into device architectures involving interfaces with 3D materials. “As a young faculty member whose prior experience focused on surface science, TMS has exposed me McDonnell says. “This has enabled better integration with faculty, both at UVA and other universities. Organizing a symposium at an early stage of my career has allowed me to interact with colleagues from other disciplines and will eventually lead to new collaborations. TMS has also provided me with new forums to publicize my research to the broader community.” “The TMS Foundation has always — Niaz Abdolrahim Victoria Miller “I chose my career in metallurgy engineering puzzles as part of a team,” states Victoria Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. “TMS is the organization t (...truncated)


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Congratulations to the 2018 TMS Young Leaders, JOM, 2018, pp. 263-267, Volume 70, Issue 3, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-2759-6