Congratulations to the 2018 TMS Young Leaders
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Congratulations to the 2018 TMS Young Leaders
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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.
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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)