Members of the Materials Research Society (MRS) have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2017) and five directors to join the 2016 MRS Board of Directors. In addition, the MRS Board of Directors has appointed the next MRS Treasurer. The Board is composed of the officers and 12 to 21 directors, established by Board resolution.

The officers of the Society are the president (who serves as chair of the Board), the vice president (who is also the president-elect), the secretary, the treasurer (a position appointed by the Board of Directors), and the immediate past president. Terms of office expire at the end of the year indicated in parentheses. The asterisk (*) designates those who are newly elected. The annual election ended August 24, 2015.

The Board of Directors is organized into the following governing committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight, and Planning. Chairs and Members of the committees are either designated by policy or are appointed by the president.

2016 MRS Of cers

President

Kristi S. Anseth

University of Colorado Boulder

Immediate Past President Oliver Kraft

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Vice President (President-Elect)

* Susan Trolier-McKinstry

The Pennsylvania State University

Secretary

Sean J. Hearne

Sandia National Laboratories

Treasurer

* David J. Parrillo

The Dow Chemical Company

Executive Director

Todd M. Osman

Materials Research Society

2016 Board of Directors

Charles T. Black (2017)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Alexandra Boltasseva (2016)

Purdue University

C. Jeffrey Brinker (2016)

Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico

* Matthew Copel (2018)

IBM

* Paul S. Drzaic (2018)

Apple, Inc.

* Yury Gogotsi (2018)

Drexel University

Hideo Hosono (2016)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

* Young-Chang Joo (2018)

Seoul National University

Karen L. Kavanagh (2017)

Simon Fraser University

Kornelius Nielsch (2016)

Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research

Christine Ortiz (2017)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sabrina Sartori (2017)

University of Oslo

* Magaly Spector (2018)

The University of Texas at Dallas

Loucas Tsakalakos (2016)

General Electric–Global Research Center

Anke Weidenkaff (2017)

University of Stuttgart