Advising NSF on its Efforts to Achieve the Nation’s Vision for the Materials Genome Initiative (DMREF)

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The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was launched in 2011 by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to help accelerate the design, discovery, development and deployment of advanced materials and to reduce costs through the integration of advanced computation and data management with experimental synthesis and characterization. A broad range of federal agencies - including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense - are part of the MGI effort and have invested more than $1 billion in resources and infrastructure accumulative since the start.

The efforts of NSF have been focused largely within the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) program, which supports the development of fundamental science, computational and experimental tools for generating and managing data, and workforce that enable industry and other government agencies to develop and deploy materials that meet societal needs and national priorities. At the request of NSF, this report evaluates the goals, progress, and scientific accomplishments of the DMREF program within the context of similar efforts both within the United States and abroad. The recommendations of this report will assist NSF as it continues to increase its engagement with industry and federal agencies to transition the results from fundamental science efforts to reach the MGI goal of deploying advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost that meet national priorities.

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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-69401-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26723

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. NSF Efforts to Achieve the Nation's Vision for the Materials Genome Initiative: Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Ronald M. Latanision

RONALD LATANISION (NAE) Co-Chair, is a Senior Fellow at Exponent, Inc., an engineering and scientific consulting company and an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, Dr. Latanision held joint faculty appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He led the School of Engineering’s Materials Processing Center at MIT as its Director from 1985 to 1991. In addition, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of ASM International, NACE International, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1983–1988, Dr. Latanision was the first holder of the Shell Distinguished Chair in Materials Science. Dr. Latanision was a founder of Altran Materials Engineering Corporation, established in 1992. Dr. Latanision’s research interests are focused largely in the areas of materials processing and in the corrosion of metals and other materials in aqueous (ambient as well as high temperature and pressure) environments. His expertise extends to electrochemical systems and processing technologies, ranging from fuel cells and batteries to supercritical water power generation and waste destruction. Dr. Latanision has served as a science advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology in Washington, D.C. In June of 2002, Dr. Latanision was appointed by President George W Bush to membership on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, and was reappointed for a second four-year term by President Barack Obama. Dr. Latanision has been active in a variety of educational initiatives, including serving as Chairman of the Council on Primary and Secondary Education at MIT, founder of the MIT Science and Engineering Program for High School Teachers, and serving as Co-Chairman of the Network of Educators in Science and Technology, (NEST). He was a Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-sponsored statewide systematic educational reform initiative in Massachusetts, Project PALMS (Partnerships Advancing Learning of Math and Science). Over the past 30 years, Dr. Latanision has served on over 20 technical and education-related study and advisory committees of the National Academies, including as co-chair of the National Academy of Engineering committee that recently produced Engineering Technology Education in the United States. In 2011 he was named Editor-in-Chief of the NAE Quarterly, The Bridge. He received a B.S. in Metallurgy from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Ohio State University.

Karin M. Rabe

KARIN M. RABE (NAS) Co-Chair, is the Board of Governors Professor of Physics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Rabe is the leading materials science theorist of her generation. She has a large number of firsts involving calculations of materials properties from first principles. Her successes have been achieved through a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms involved in these complex properties, combined with delicate and precise judgment. Using computational methods to solve the quantum mechanics of crystalline solids from first principles, Dr. Rabe studies systems at or near structural, electronic, and magnetic phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high-k dielectrics, multiferroics, and shape-memory compounds. The high sensitivity of such materials to applied fields and stresses gives rise to functional behavior with a broad range of technological applications, including information and energy storage and conversion. Dr. Rabe has a particular interest in the properties of non-bulk structures stabilized in strained thin layers and the distinctive properties of interfaces in superlattices and other artificially structured systems, which are most efficiently explored by first-principles-based modeling. She has published more than 130 papers in the theoretical analysis and prediction of the structure and properties of materials, with successful application to the design of new functional materials. She is currently president of the Aspen Center for Physics. Her professional recognitions include fellowship in the American Physical Society (2003), the David Adler Lectureship Award in Materials Physics from the American Physical Society (2008), fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011) and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013). She holds an A.B. in physics from Princeton University (1982), and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987).

Raymundo Arroyave

RAYMUNDO ARROYAVE holds the titles of Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University. One aspect of Dr. Arroyave's research focuses on the use of advanced computational tools to investigate the behavior of materials across multiple scales, with focus on thermodynamics, phase stability and kinetics of materials. He also works on the development of frameworks for the simulation-assisted design of alloys and other materials within the principles of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). Furthermore, he and his collaborators are currently working on the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence-based frameworks for the discovery and design of materials. He is also interested in the development of novel workforce development approaches at the intersection of materials science, informatics, and design.

Gerbrand Ceder

GERBRAND CEDER (NAE) is the Chancellor's Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He received an engineering degree in Metallurgy and Applied Materials Science from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California at Berkeley. After his degree he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 25 years, after which he moved back to the U. C. Berkeley, where he remains. His research group focuses on the use of computational modeling to design novel materials for energy generation and storage, including battery cathodes, hydrogen storage materials, thermoelectrics, and electrodes for solar photoelectrochemical water-splitters. His group also designs, synthesizes and characterizes novel lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery chemistries. He has published over 400 scientific papers in the fields of alloy theory, oxide phase stability, high-temperature superconductors, Li-battery materials, machine learning, and theory of materials synthesis, and holds 25 current or pending U.S. patents.

Feliciano Giustino

FELICIANO GIUSTINO is Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Austin, and holds the W. A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Endowed Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Texas, he spent over a decade at the University of Oxford as Professor of Materials Science, and he was elected to the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professorship in Engineering at Cornell University. He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. He serves on the Executive Editorial Board of JPhys Materials. His research interests lie in electronic structure theory, high-performance computing, and the atomic-scale design of advanced materials using quantum mechanics. In these areas he authored 150 scientific manuscripts, he published one book by Oxford University Press, and he leads the development of open-source community software. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and held a post-doctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Amit Goyal

AMIT GOYAL (NAE) is the director of the RENEW Institute and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (UB). Dr. Goyal has over 25 years of project management and administrative experience as principal investigator in managing technical projects of a diverse nature and involving multiple organizations. Dr. Goyal concurrently holds the title of SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at UB in several departments at the University. He is also the president and CEO of TapeSolar Inc., a private-equity funded company, and also the president and CEO of TexMat LLC, an IP holding and consulting company. Dr. Goyal’s research interests include his development of low-cost, high performance, flexible, electrical and electronic devices. He is also interested in 3D self-assembly of controlled nanostructures within device layers for enhanced performance or for deriving new functionalities. Functional areas of particular emphasis include superconducting materials, photovoltaic materials, ferroelectric materials, multiferroic materials, and two dimensional materials. A significant emphasis is on microstructurally engineered materials for via controlled synthesis using scalable approaches. His focus is also on energy and environmental materials. He is presently an emeritus corporate fellow at at UT-Battelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also a Battelle Distinguished Inventor. He was the chair of the UT-Battelle/ORNL Corporate Fellows Council that advised ORNL senior management on scientific and technological issues and opportunities. He has experience as president, CEO, and financial head, as well as experience in interacting with private equity firms such as venture capital firms and angel investors. He has authored more than 350 technical publications and has 87 issued patents comprising 70 U.S. and 17 international patents, and over 20 patents pending. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He has been elected fellow of eight professional societies: the American Association for Advancement of Science; the Materials Research Society; the American Physical Society; the World Innovation Foundation; the American Society of Metals; the Institute of Physics; the American Ceramic Society, and the World Technology Network. Dr. Goyal received a B.Tech. (Honors) in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India) in 1986, a M.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Rochester in 1988, and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Rochester in 1991. He also has executive business training from the Sloan School of Management at Massachuesetts Institute of Technology (2005), an executive M.B.A. from Purdue University (2002), and an international executive M.B.A. from Tilburg University (2002).

Olivia A. Graeve

OLIVIA GRAEVE is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems, and Faculty Director of the IDEA Engineering Student Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California at Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. Her area of research focuses on fundamental studies of the synthesis and processing of nanostructured materials, including ceramic and metallic nanomaterials and amorphous/nanocrystalline composites for both structural and functional applications, with a special emphasis on electromagnetic multifunctional materials for sensors and energy applications. Prof. Graeve has served on numerous committees of her primary societies (American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and Sociedad Mexicana de Materials, A.C.) in many different capacities and actively participates in organizing national and international conferences, as well as serving on various review boards and advisory panels. Dr. Graeve has been involved in many activities related to the recruitment and retention of women and Hispanic students in science and engineering and has received several prestigious awards including the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the 2006 Hispanic Educator of the Year award by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, the 2010 Karl Schwartzwalder Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award by the American Ceramic Society, the 2012 B.J. Harrington Lectureship by McGill University, the 2011 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers “Jaime Oaxaca” Award, Outstanding Engineering Educator by the San Diego Chapter of the California Society of Professional Engineers (2015), and Alumna of the Year by Southwestern College (2015). More recently, she has been named into the Tijuana Walk of Fame (2014), inducted into the Mexican Academy of Engineering (2016), and named fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2017).

David Green

DAVID GREEN, is an Associate Professor and University of Virginia, His research focuses on the synthesis of well-defined nanoparticles, their dispersion into polymer solutions and melts, and their suspension rheology. His work has produced well-defined nanoparticles that are optimized for a range of industrially relevant properties such as particle stability, surface expression, or catalytic activity. He is also interested in developing timely methods for determining nanoparticle growth rates inside of emulsions which are used in formulating a variety of commercial products like fiber-optic coatings, automotive finishes, and chromatographic packings. Second, his work examines how grafting uniform polymers to the interfaces of well-defined nanoparticles affects their rheological behavior in polymer solutions and melts. With his fundamental studies, he seek to optimize processing to achieve a desirable microstructure in industrial suspensions, and to set a foundation for developing constitutive rheological models that predict the complex behavior of industrial suspensions. To this end, he uses rheological and rheo-optical measurements to elucidate how the interactions within model suspensions affect their flow at nano-, micro-, and macroscopic length scales the full range of interactions that effect the processing of engineered materials.

Preeti Kamakoti

PREETI KAMAKOTI is a technology leader and member of technical staff at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She has over 15 years of experience in materials R&D across discovery, development and scale-up. She spent the first few years of her career in the basic research organization, where she worked on and led several efforts on computational materials discovery and design for separations and catalysis. In 2013, she moved to the process technology organization, focused on development and scale-up of early stage concepts into real world materials technologies in the refining, chemical space. Over the past 5 years, she envisioned, built from grounds up, grew and is currently leading a successful grassroots initiative combining digitalization and AI to accelerate materials R&D. This work has made significant business impact and transformed the organization from an experience-driven to data-driven mindset. She has extensive experience of collaboration with academic, governmental and third parties to advance computational/data-driven materials R&D. She currently serves as a committee member on the Northeast Corridor Zeolites Association and has served on other academic advisory boards previously.

Robert V. Kohn

ROBERT V. KOHN is the Silver Professor of Mathematics at New York University. He works in nonlinear partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. Much of his research addresses challenges from physics and materials science. One recurrent theme is the relationship between microstructure and macroscopic behavior; this has included designing composite materials with extremal effective behavior, and analyzing the effective behavior of shape-memory polycrystals. Another recurrent theme is "energy-driven pattern formation" -- that is, understanding how the domain patterns seen in magnetic materials, shape-memory materials, and other systems described by Landau theories emerge as a consequence of energy minimization. Recently Professor Kohn has applied this perspective to analyze load-driven wrinkling of thin elastic sheets. Physical experiments can observe the patterns that form, and numerical simulations can demonstrate within a model how they develop. But neither experiment nor simulation can tell us "why" a system chooses a particular pattern. Professor Kohn’s variational perspective provides a valuable complement to other methods, by showing that energy minimization requires certain types of patterns. Professor Kohn also works in other areas where optimization plays a key role. One current theme is "prediction with expert advice" -- a widely used paradigm for machine learning. Here optimization is relevant in adversarial settings, where "prediction" amounts to a repeated two-person game involving the predictor and an adversary. Nonlinear partial differential equations arise by considering continuum limits and taking advantage of analogies with optimal control. Professor Kohn received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1979. He is a SIAM Fellow, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John C. Mauro

JOHN MAURO is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a B.S. in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department. John is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics and kinetics, and the topology of disordered networks. John is the author of 295 peer-reviewed publications and is Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He is co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (Elsevier, 2019), the definitive textbook on glass science and technology, and he is the author of the newly published textbook, Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (Elsevier, 2021). John is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, with 58 granted U.S. patents and another ~20 additional patents pending. John is also a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology.

Risto M. Nieminen

RISTO NIEMINEN (NAS) is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at Aalto University, Finland. His research area is condensed-matter and materials physics, especially theoretical and computational methods as applied to multiscale materials modelling. Computational materials science enables predictive calculation of physical and chemical properties from electronic and atomic scales, governed by quantum physics, to continuum. He has developed widely used methods and applied them in interpreting a variety of experimental results for e.g. atomic-scale defects, surfaces and interfaces of solids and for nanoscale structures and assemblies. Density-functional theory and its extensions to multi-component and time-dependent cases is the framework for extensive first-principles computation of electronic structure and properties, including dynamical and non-equilibrium properties of condensed matter. Among the many applications are electronic, magnetic, transport, thermodynamic and mechanical properties, accessible for a number of spectroscopic and other probes. An important application area has been defects and doping in semiconductors and two-dimensional materials. The research has contributed to the understanding of carrier concentration and compensation, defect metastability, doping limits, diffusivity, and complex formation, important for (opto)electronics applications. This work includes wide-gap and insulating materials, nitrides, complex oxides, perovskites, and chalcopyrites, as well as graphene and related materials. Large-scale computation can also be combined with extensive databases and machine-learning methods to systematically search and discover new materials. Risto Nieminen is the founding editor of two research journals, Computational Materials Science and Electronic Structure.

Sherine Obare

SHERINE OBARE is an Associate Professor at Western Michigan University. She works on nanomaterials for drug delivery and chemical sensing. She investigated fluorescent chemosensors to monitor for organophosphorous. Organophosphorous can inhibit cholinesterase and can have severe environmental and health impacts. Obare was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006. This allowed her to develop multi-electron transfer catalysts. Obare is interested in multi-electron transfer. She has investigated electron transfer from heme-functionalised titanium dioxide to organohalide pollutants. She demonstrated that organohalides degrade via multi-electron pathways. She has explored new techniques to synthesise and characterize monodisperse nanoparticles. The nanoparticles can be used to detect bacteria in waterborne diseases. Obare was appointed Associate Dean at Western Michigan University in 2015. She was responsible for research, education, diversity and global engagement across the university. She believes that early authentic research is essential for underrepresented groups to gain rational view of the world. From 2017 Obare served as Associate Vice President for Research at Western Michigan University. Obare is an associate editor for the Journal of Nanomaterials.

Tresa M. Pollock

TRESA POLLOCK (NAE) is the ALCOA Distinguished Professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously she was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Michigan. Research interests include the mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments, unique high temperature materials processing paths, ultrafast laser-material interactions, alloy design and 3-D materials characterization. Recent research has focused on thermal barrier coatings systems and platinum group metal-containing bond coats, new intermetallic-containing cobalt- base materials, vapor phase processing of sheet materials for hypersonic flight systems, growth of nickel-base alloy single crystals with a new liquid tin-assisted Bridgman technique, development of new femtosecond laser-aided 3-D tomography techniques and development of models for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering efforts. She is a fellow of TMS and ASM International, an associate editor of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, and a former president of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. She holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has served on the Academies’ National Materials and Manufacturing Board, the Panel on Materials Science and Engineering at the Army Research Laboratory, and the Panel on Armor and Armaments for the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board.

Aarti Singh

AARTI SINGH is an Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and signal processing, and focuses on designing statistically and computationally efficient algorithms that can interactively leverage inherent structure in the data, and its application to scientific domains. She received a B.E. in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Delhi in 1997, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Singh was a postdoctoral research associate at the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, before joining CMU in 2009. Her work is recognized by an NSF Career Award, a United States Air Force Young Investigator Award, A. Nico Habermann Junior Faculty Chair Award, Harold A. Peterson Best Dissertation Award, and four best student paper awards. Her service honors include serving as program chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020, program chair for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2017 conference, associate editor for IEEE Transactions of Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, expert team member for ONR/NIST TMS S&T study on AI for Materials and Manufacturing innovation, steering committee for NSF innovation lab on data-driven chemistry, lead and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.

Deidre Strand

DEIDRE STRAND is Chief Scientific Officer at Wildcat Discovery Technologies. Dr. Strand has over twenty five years of experience in materials research, development, and commercialization, primarily in the areas of energy storage (lithium ion batteries) and electronic applications. Prior to joining Wildcat in 2012, Dr. Strand served as a Research Fellow at Dow Chemical, where she was the technical lead in Dow Energy Materials, as well as the Principal Investigator on external research programs with universities and national labs on battery materials. Dr. Strand also has extensive experience in patent analysis and technical due diligence of new technologies. Dr. Strand completed her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervision of Professor John Schrag. Her Ph.D. research focused on rheology and birefringence of polymeric solutions. Dr. Strand also holds a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from North Dakota State University.

Katsuyo Thornton

KATSUYO THORNTON is the L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S. from Iowa State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Chicago. Her work bridges the important gap between basic materials research and industrial application by using large-scale simulations to investigate the evolution of micro- and nano-sized structures in materials during process and operations. Recent topics of research include coarsening in elastically stressed solids, evolution of topologically complex systems in three dimensions, simulations of electrochemical systems, and self-assembly of quantum dots and other nanoscale phenomena during heteroepitaxy of semiconductors. Because most of her work involves mathematical modeling that requires significant computational resources, she brings to the committee an understanding of the advantages to materials research offered by computational design, including the capabilities of multi-user facilities such as NSF’s TeraGrid. Dr. Thornton has also been involved in working on the long-term needs of the materials research community, having recently surveyed and reported on the trends and needs in computation materials science and education, “Computational Materials Science and Engineering Education: A Survey of Trends and Needs,” Journal of Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society 61:12 (2009), and published guidelines for accessing the TeraGRid, the National Science Foundation’s effort to build and deploy the world’s largest distributed infrastructure for open science research, [Applying for computational time on NSF's TeraGrid-the world's largest cyberinfrastructure supporting open research,” Journal of Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society 62:17 (2011).

Richard A. Vaia

RICHARD VAIA (NAE) is the Chief Scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is also a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He serves as the principal scientific authority and primary authority for the technical content of the Science and Technology portfolio, ensuring the Directorate meets national, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Air Force Materiel Command, and AFRL objectives in core area technologies. Dr. Vaia’s research has covered the chemistry, physics and processing of nanomaterials for multifunctional structures, coatings, inks, flexible electronics, optical devices and autonomous concepts. He has published more than 220 articles, is co-inventor on 16 patents and has given more than 150 plenary, keynote and invited talks at national and international scientific venues. Previously he has held the positions of Branch Chief for the NanoStructured and Biological Materials Branch at AFRL and Technical Director for Functional Materials Division at AFRL. He has also been the Senior Scientist for Emergent Materials Systems at AFRL. He is the recipient of a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship and a U.S. Air Force Outstanding Scientist. He is a Member at Large for the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Division at the American Chemical Society and a 2006 Materials Research Laboratory Visiting Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Karen L. Wooley

KAREN L. WOOLEY (NAS) holds the W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and is a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, with appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. She is also the co-founder and President of Sugar Plastics, LLC, and Chief Technology Officer of Teysha Technologies, LTD. Karen relocated to Texas A&M University in 2009, after having spent the first sixteen years of her independent academic career on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis. Research interests include the synthesis and characterization of degradable polymers derived from natural products, unique macromolecular architectures, complex polymer assemblies, and well-defined nanostructured materials, with emphases on the design and development of materials that address societal, medical, technological and/or environmental advances. Recent awards include the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry (2014), the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2014), and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015), and the National Academy of Inventors (2019). In 2020, she was awarded Fellowship to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. She was selected as a recipient of a 2021 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Achievement Award and was named as the 2021 SEC Professor of the Year. Karen completed undergraduate study at Oregon State University (B.S., Chemistry, 1988) and graduate study at Cornell University (Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry, 1993).

Erik B. Svedberg

ERIK SVEDBERG is a senior program officer of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine a position he has held since 2008. In this role, he works with experts from across the nation to develop, negotiate, and oversee scientific and technical advisory studies for federal agencies related to questions of materials science, manufacturing and engineering design. His previous and current activities at the National Academies includes work as a Study Director for; Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Aerospace Propulsion Systems; Corrosion Research Grand Challenges; Opportunities in Protection Materials; Optics and Photonics, Essential Technologies for Our Nation; Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative; Airport Passenger Screening; Frontiers of Materials Research, A decadal Survey; Participation by DOD in its Manufacturing USA Institutes; and High Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations. As well as overseeing workshops such as: Big Data in Materials Research and Development; Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing; Materials and Manufacturing Capabilities for Sustaining Defense Systems; New and Novel Processes that are on the Verge of Industrial Modernization; and Emerging Needs in Quantum-Enabled Systems. Dr. Svedberg has a decade of industry experience with both small and large companies in the materials science area and has been a guest researcher at NIST for several years. He has been awarded and overseen five research grants and has published over 80 scientific articles, been granted two patents and is cited over 1,600 times with an h-index of 22. His Ph.D. and masters are in materials science and he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Vacuum Society (AVS), and the Washington Academy of Science (WAS) including being their 2019 leadership in material science award recipient.

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