Thank you to our volunteers and leadership for their dedication to the Society, and congratulations to all of our award winners!

MRS Spring Meeting Chairs

David Cahill
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mmantsae Diale
University of Pretoria

Kaining Ding
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Martin Kaltenbrunner
Johannes Kepler Universität

Takao Mori
National Institute for Materials Science

Congratulations MRS Awardees

Spring Awards

Nikhilesh Chawla
Innovation in Materials Characterization Award
Purdue University

Mark C. Hersam
Mid-Career Researcher Award
Northwestern University

Mark Miodownik
MRS Impact Award
University College London

Qian Chen
Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mit Naik
MRS Postdoctoral Award
University of California, Berkeley

Yury Gogotsi
MRS Communications Lecture
Drexel University

MRS Fellows

Harald Ade
North Carolina State University

Amit Bandyopadhyay
Washington State University

Donald Brenner
North Carolina State University

Stefano Curtarolo
Duke University

Laura M. Herz
University of Oxford

Andrea M. Hodge
University of Southern California

Cherie R. Kagan
University of Pennsylvania

Lane Martin
Rice University

Sanjay Mathur
University of Cologne

Amanda K. Petford-Long
Argonne National Laboratory

Gregory Rohrer
Carnegie Mellon University

Federico Rosei
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Subhash L. Shinde
University of Notre Dame

Ichiro Takeuchi
University of Maryland

Dmitri V. Talapin
University of Chicago

Graduate Student Awards

Maximilian Buchüller
University of Wuppertal

Joonsoo Kim
University of Michigan

Sichao Li
National University of Singapore

Peifen Lyu
University of California, Davis

Shahriar Muhammad Nahid
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zainab Patel
University of Washington

Mario Ulises Gonzalez Rivas
University of British Columbia

Nirmaan Shanker
University of California, Berkeley

Xingyu Shen
University of Chicago

Kateryna Shevchuk
Drexel University

Jiuyun Shi
The University of Chicago

Brian Wyatt
Purdue University

Seungju Yu
Seoul National University

Xintong Yuan
University of California, Los Angeles

Wenbo Zhang
Stanford University

Jie Zhao
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Best Poster Winners

Tuesday, April 23

Ana Paula Kitos Vasconcelos, University of Washington

Hyunjin Lee, Seoul National University, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)

Jianan Shen, Purdue University

Tomiko Suzuki, Toyota Central R&D Labs, Inc.

Di Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Wednesday, April 24

Prajwal Laxmeesha, Drexel University

Caitlin V McCowan, Sandia National Laboratories

Zhiliang Pan, Vanderbilt University

Grace Rome, Colorado School of Mines, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Hyeonjeong Sun, Hanyang University

Yongyi Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, April 25

Jaeyeong Ha, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Jingxuan Wang, National University of Singapore

Menghang (David) Wang, Harvard University

Zhi Zhang, Peking University