focused on the theory and simulation of block copolymer phase behavior to enable critical dimension metrology, polyolefin crystallization, polymer blends, polymer interfaces, composites, and random copolymers. His primary research interests are rooted in statistical field theories of heterogeneous systems, especially soft materials. Dr. Bosse received a BS in physics from the University of California, Davis, and an MA and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

KENNETH M. CALDERONE is an advanced workflow specialist supporting confocal microscopy applications with Leica Microsystems. He is responsible for teaching and training research scientists on the appropriate applications of advanced microscopy, with a focus on laser scanning systems. Prior to his career at Leica, he gained 12 years of experience in microscopy as a research technician at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he became a research laboratory technician lead by developing microscopy techniques and training scientists on proper microscopy protocols. During his career at Michigan, he focused on developing techniques to stain thick biological samples and image them using multiphoton microscopy. He also gained extensive experience in staining biological samples using immunofluorescent and chemical techniques, developing widefield microscopy protocols, and 2D and 3D image data analysis. He graduated from Western Michigan University with a BS in biomedical sciences and a minor in chemistry.

IULIANA CERNĂTESCU is senior technical fellow of material characterization and applications for Pratt & Whitney (P&W). In her role, she provides technical leadership for materials characterization field at P&, including identification, development, and championing of characterization technologies that enables agile engineering development, increased efficiencies, and inspection and measurement capabilities at each stage of the jet engine life cycle. Furthermore, Dr. Cernătescu identifies and develops external partnerships to enhance P&W material characterization and inspection technologies that align with P&W business-critical strategic and tactical goals. She serves as the P&W materials characterization expert internally to P&W, other RTX divisions, and within external technical communities. She is actively engaged in recruitment, training, mentoring, and development of talent. Dr. Cernătescu has more than 20 years of industrial experience in materials characterization. She joined P&W in 2011 as an X-ray analytical methods subject-matter expert, and later became discipline chief for materials characterization and subsequently manager of the materials characterization group and laboratories where in addition to leading the technical and strategic direction for the discipline, she modernized the laboratory facilities and developed new partnerships, expanding P&W’s material characterization capabilities. Prior to joining P&W, she worked at two major companies that produced material characterization systems, where she served as technical leader for new methods and systems development and implementation. Dr. Cernătescu holds a master’s degree in physics and a PhD in materials and solid state physics from Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest, Hungary. She is the author of 8 patents and more than 25 peer-reviewed technical publications.

STEVEN C. FREILICH is currently executive-in-residence at the Princeton University Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and holds a similar position in the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), having recently retired from DuPont after a 33-year career. While at DuPont, he served as director of materials science. In that role, Dr. Freilich was responsible for developing and implementing technology growth strategies in rapidly moving areas such as materials for energy, displays, and biomedical applications. He used his experience to impact corporate innovation through leadership at the interface of technology and markets. During his tenure as director of materials science, Dr. Freilich held the additional position of chief technology officer of DuPont Electronics and Communication and was appointed as chief technology advocate for north Asia. He has served on the boards of the United States Display Consortium, the DuPont-MIT Alliance, and was vice chair of both the advisory panel for the Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion and the advisory committee for the Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center in the Department of Energy. He has also

served on the advisory boards for Sandia National Laboratories, NREL, and the National Research Council of Canada.

GARY S. GROENEWOLD is a recently retired scientist with 35 years of service at the Idaho National Laboratory. During this span, Dr. Groenewold’s broad research interests involved investigations of reactivity and measurement of molecular and atomic species of importance in military, nuclear, and industrial enterprises. His research emphasized analysis of material surfaces, focusing on adsorbed organic and inorganic species in ambient environments. He specialized in mass spectrometry, and many studies utilized secondary ion mass spectrometry for surface characterization. He has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed publications in these diverse areas, a significant fraction of which address surface analysis. Dr. Groenewold holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Nebraska and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Groenewold has coauthored six National Academies reports in the area of chemical demilitarization and served as chair of the Committee on Chemical Demilitarization from 2013 to 2017. He is a national associate of the National Academies.

MINKI HONG is senior manager of Kyulux North America. He is responsible for developing a web-based materials informatics platform for OLED (organic light-emitting diode) applications. The platform includes a high-throughput virtual screening system, a computational job managing system, and a data management system. Dr. Hong supervises scientific research on molecular discovery and machine learning prediction models, as well as software and system development for the platform. Prior to joining Kyulux North America, Dr. Hong worked as a postdoc at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Georgia Tech. His postdoctoral research focused on the degradation mechanism of organic materials. Dr. Hong earned his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida and has more than 10 years of experience in computational materials science of various materials, including oxides, nitrides, and organic materials. He possesses a broad knowledge of first principles calculation methods and related software packages, as well as experience in lattice and molecular dynamics. Dr. Hong is also trained as an experimentalist and is well versed in inorganic thin-film growth for optoelectronic devices. Thus, he is familiar with ultra-high vacuum technology and related characterization methods.

MOHAMMAD A. KHALEEL is associate laboratory director (ALD) of ORNL for National Security Sciences and oversees capabilities in protection of nuclear materials, defense materials and manufacturing, cyber-physical security, and human security. He previously served as ORNL’s deputy director for science and technology (interim) and ORNL’s deputy director for projects. He was ALD for energy and environmental science and oversaw a broad portfolio in biological and environmental sciences, and energy efficient transportation, building, and manufacturing. He was executive director of the Qatar Environmental and Energy Research Institute from 2013 to 2015. Dr. Khaleel held several technical and senior managerial positions at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he was a laboratory fellow (highest scientific rank by promotion) and led the Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division from 2003 to 2013. Dr. Khaleel received his PhD in structural engineering and mechanics from Washington State University and his MBA from University of Washington. He has extensive multidisciplinary research experience with more than 250 technical papers and three patents. His research interests have been in electrocatalytic materials and systems, superplasticity, dislocation dynamics, and lightweight materials. He is currently adjunct professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the AAAS.

RICHARD A. LESAR has served as materials science and engineering professor at Iowa State University since 2006. Prior to that, Dr. LeSar worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a postdoctoral fellow,

as a research scientist, and in management. His research uses computational modeling to study the properties of materials, with a long-term interest in multiscale models and work spanning from electronic structure methods to theoretical mechanics. His current work is focused primarily on developing and applying polycrystal plasticity calculations (based in part on discrete dislocation mechanics), developing multiscale simulations of additive manufacturing, and an increasing focus on developing new computational strategies for multiscale design. Dr. LeSar is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the AAAS. He served on the scientific advisory board (SAB) for the U.S. Air Force (2005–2009) and SAB science and technology review panels for the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, the Air Vehicles Directorate, and the Office of Scientific Research. He received his BS in chemistry from the University of Michigan (1975) and an AM in physics (1977) and a PhD in chemical physics (1981) from Harvard University. In 2006–2008, Dr. LeSar served on the National Academies’ study panel on integrated computational materials engineering.

FRANCES S. LIGLER is Eppright Chair and professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&M University. From 2013 to 2022, she was Ross Lampe Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before 2013, she was at the Naval Research Laboratory for 28 years, during the last 18 of which she was the U.S. Navy senior scientist for biosensors and biomaterials. She earned a BS from Furman University and both a DPhil and a DSc from Oxford University. She has more than 450 full-length publications and patents, which have led to 11 commercial biosensor products and generated an H = 85 (Google Scholar). She was elected an SPIE fellow in 2000, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 (2020 winner of the Ramo Founders Award), a fellow of the AIMBE in 2011, a fellow of the AAAS in 2013, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016, and an honorary member of the Hellenic Society for Nanotechnology in Health Sciences in 2017. In 2003, she was awarded the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Senior Professional by President Bush. In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Senior Professional by President Obama. In 2014 and 2018, she was awarded honorary doctorates from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, and Furman University, respectively. She is a 2017 inductee of the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame, honored for her invention of portable optical biosensors. In 2015, Dr. Ligler chaired the review panel for the assessment of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory.

QUINGHUANG LIN is president of Linktech International, LLC. Linktech is a consulting firm for the semiconductor and materials industries focusing on semiconductor technology, materials, wafer fabrication and testing equipment, workforce development, supply chain management, and sustainability. It aims to enable clients to innovate to meet customer’s needs for an increasingly digitized, interconnected and knowledge-centric economy and for the betterment of people’s lives. Dr. Lin was previously the director of advanced technology development at Lam Research in Fremont, California. He is an SPIE fellow, an ACS fellow, a PMSE fellow, and a POLY fellow. For more than 15 years, he has held technical and executive positions in photoresist development, advanced lithography, BEOL materials and integration, 3D integration, semiconductor equipment, and semiconductor technology strategy for several nodes of CMOS technology research and development at Lam Research, IBM, and ASML. He holds more than 120 U.S. patents and is author and co-author of more than 100 technical papers. Dr. Lin is the recipient of the Industrial Polymer Scientist Award (2018), Roy W. Tess Award (2020), E.V. Murphree Award (2023), and several IBM awards. He is co-chair of SPIE Advanced Lithography and Patterning (2021–2023) and serves as associate editor of the Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology. Dr. Lin received a PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MS and a BE from Tsinghua University, China.

DAVID MELLOR leads the policy and incentive programs at the Center for Open Science as director of policy. These initiatives seek reward increased transparency and reduced bias in scientific research and are covered in the transparency and openness promotion guidelines (TOP, https://www.cos.io/top.). His

research background and professional training include behavioral ecology, citizen science, and research methods and policy. Dr. Mellor received his PhD in ecology and evolution from Rutgers University.

NICOLA POHL is professor of chemistry, Joan and Marvin Carmack Chair in Bioorganic Chemistry, and associate dean of natural and mathematical sciences and research for the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. She was professor of chemistry and chemical and biological engineering and held the Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa State University before moving to Indiana University. The Pohl research group works to find new ways to make and analyze sugars to dissect their important roles in plant, animal, and human biology and to design therapeutics. One major long-term goal of the group is to develop rational designs of therapeutic interventions, such as vaccines and glycoproteins, on the basis of a deeper knowledge of the role of carbohydrates. Her research group created the first automated solution-phase method for readily synthesizing oligosaccharides and is now working to expand the scope of those methods to tackle the equal challenge of providing building blocks to feed their automated oligosaccharide synthesis machines. Dr. Pohl received her PhD in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.

JAYAKANTH RAVICHANDRAN is associate professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with courtesy appointment in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He holds the Philip and Cayley MacDonald Endowed Early Career Chair. His research interests are in materials design, synthesis, characterization, and physical properties of complex materials for electronic, photonic, and energy applications. His honors include the 2020 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award and 2017 Early Career Scholar in Materials Science by the Journal of Materials Research. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011. He performed postdoctoral research at Columbia University and briefly at Harvard University, before joining USC in 2015 as an assistant professor.

JAMES W. RINGER is currently president of Innovative Process Solutions, LLC, where he provides consulting expertise in research, manufacturing, and business strategies. His professional experience includes the following: president of technology and new business development for Innovative Process Solutions, LLC (2021–2023); strategic leadership of large organizations (design and leadership development); innovation strategies to drive value capture, value generation strategies (implementation of new innovation concepts and continuous improvement programs), and technology portfolio strategies (pipeline development, portfolio optimization, and technology solutions); and active ingredient process development and bioprocessing and bioengineering research and development (R&D) leader at Corteva (2017–2019). He led new technology identification and development for both chemistry and fermentation process, delivery of financial impact through implementation of new R&D processes into commercial operations, and identification of external partnerships (academic and industry). At the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, he was director of engineering and process sciences (2010–2017). He led the organization of 160 personnel for new technology development and implementation of new R&D processes into commercial operations for multiple Dow businesses (more than 20 business units including electronic materials, polymers, agrichemicals, coatings, etc.) and development and execution of more than 20 university projects. Dr. Ringer graduated from Purdue University (BS in chemistry) and University of Wisconsin (PhD in organic chemistry). He authored or co-authored 15 granted patents with more than 25 patent applications. He was a recipient of TDCC Michigan Scientists Organization Excellence in Science Award, received the DAS “Increase the Slope Award” in 1994 and 1999, a TDCC WRAP award, multiple Awards for manufacturing improvements, and the 2013 Noland Poffenberger Award from AIChE. He is currently a member of the ACS.

by studying polymer interfacial phenomena, and how changes in temperature, pressure, and volume affect polymers. He develops models and uses computer simulations to understand polymer solubility and conformation and to understand the role of water in polymer processes. He received his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Delaware.

ALIX L. SCHMIDT is senior data scientist at Dow Chemical leading programs in predictive formulation and machine learning model deployment strategy. Her previous roles in Dow and Dow Corning include process research for silicone-organic copolymer production, high-throughput research for catalyst discovery, and manufacturing chemometrics for operations troubleshooting. She is an expert in statistics and machine learning as applied to chemicals and materials, and through her roles has been involved in all phases of the data life cycle—experimental design, data generation and collection, data storage, data cleaning, and data analysis and modeling. Dr. Schmidt is an expertise leader in Dow’s Citizen Data Science training program, developing and delivering foundational training on data stewardship and programming to researchers. She is a member of the AIChE and has chaired conference sessions on data analytics at the spring meetings since 2017. She has a BS in chemical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MS in predictive analytics from Northwestern University.

JESSE C. SEEGMILLER is a board-certified clinical chemist in the Division of Clinical Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. He focuses his research activities on esoteric testing where he primarily employs mass spectrometry to analyze and develop methods for biological samples in the Advanced Research and Diagnostics Laboratory. He also oversees clinical laboratories at M Health Fairview, including the Drug Analysis Laboratory and Acute Care Laboratory. Dr. Seegmiller also serves as the medical director for the M Health Fairview Maple Grove Laboratory. Before his fellowship and faculty appointment, Dr. Seegmiller worked in industry for a mass spectrometry company as a product applications specialist in clinical applications. Dr. Seegmiller earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of Wyoming and a BS in chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Duluth (2000).

JOHNNA S. TEMENOFF is Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech/Emory University. Dr. Temenoff is also currently deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center in Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT). Scientifically, she develops new biomaterials for use in cell manufacturing and regenerative medicine applications. At CMaT, she co-leads a center that spans more than eight research institutions throughout the United States, with more than 200 researchers working to develop new manufacturing technologies for emerging biologic therapies. Dr. Temenoff has received the NSF CAREER Award and was named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers, as a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and as a fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering. She was recently awarded the Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature from the Society for Biomaterials. Dr. Temenoff received a BS in biomedical engineering and a BA in French from Case Western Reserve University (1998). She was then granted a PhD in bioengineering from Rice University in 2005.

CRISTINA U. THOMAS has more than 34 years of technical and leadership experience in research and development organizations including in the Venezuelan oil industry, IBM (New York), and 3M (Minnesota). She has undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics and a PhD in chemical engineering. She is currently 3M’s senior director for Global R&D Services and R&D GPO and has had prior assignments as strategy manager, laboratory manager, commercialization manager, Design for Six Sigma technical black belt, and group leader of materials modeling. She became an early leader in chemical engineering’s molecular and materials modeling community, led the reinvention of the 3M window-film product platform, the design and implementation of new product introduction processes, and the incorporation of digital technologies in new connected safety platform. She is a co-inventor in more

than 25 patents and is recognized for persistently nurturing team high performance to deliver innovative ideas that move new technologies into markets. She is an industry expert and leader in knowledge discovery and analytics, materials modeling and simulation, advanced materials design, electronic laboratory environments, and laboratory information management systems. Dr. Thomas has a passion for institutions that focus on education of underrepresented students and women in science and engineering. She is a board member at Crito Rey Jesuit Twin Cities High School and at Project Scientist. She leads 3M Science Encouragement Programs and is a member of the AIChE Corporate Council & Industry Leader’s and the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She received the 2019 AIChE Industry Leadership Award, the 2019 AICHE Management Division Award, and is an ACS fellow, an ACS PMSE fellow, and an AIChE fellow.

OCKERT J. VAN DER SCHIJFF is principal engineer in Exponent’s Materials and Corrosion Engineering practice. He is a chemical and metallurgical engineer with almost four decades of experience in the materials engineering field. He specializes in aqueous corrosion of materials in industrial applications and materials failure analysis in utility, manufacturing, and chemical processing environments. He has managed and participated in a wide variety of forensic investigations, failure analyses, and condition assessments on individual above-ground and buried components such as piping, valves, pumps, tanks, presses, fire protection systems, reactors, bearings, medical devices, and manufacturing machinery to determine the root cause for in-service failures. Dr. Van Der Schijff is a recognized industry expert on corrosion and microbiologically influenced corrosion of fire protection systems and the use of nitrogen as a supervisory gas in dry and preaction fire protection systems. He also provides consulting services in the fields of corrosion of metals, microbiologically influenced corrosion, medical device corrosion and failure, materials selection, alloy development, and AC and DC electrochemical techniques for investigation of corrosion mechanisms of metal alloys. Since 2001, Dr. Van Der Schijff has served as an expert witness on a number of diverse litigation cases dealing with corrosion of river going barges; corrosion failure of home heating furnaces; internal corrosion of wet, dry, and preaction fire protection systems; corrosion of buried fuel and gas piping; corrosion resulting from defective drywall; caustic cracking of refinery components; stress corrosion cracking of dairy processing equipment; pinhole leaks in domestic copper piping; and premature corrosion and/or failure of brass, copper, and stainless steel plumbing components. Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Van Der Schijff founded CorrConsult, LLC, a consultancy providing consulting and litigation support services in the areas of corrosion engineering, metallurgy, forensic science, and failure analysis. Earlier, he was employed at Altran Corporation for a period of 9 years from 1995 through 2003. In his position as principal engineer, he was responsible for business development, project management, failure analysis, and contract research in the materials science disciplines. From 1984 to 1996, Dr. Van Der Schijff was associate professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at the Potchefstroom University in South Africa. In addition to teaching undergraduate courses in materials science, corrosion, pyrometallurgy, and thermodynamics, he conducted research in the field of corrosion. During this time, he also consulted widely to industry in the fields of chemical engineering, materials science, metallurgical engineering, corrosion, and wear. Previously, Dr. Van Der Schijff was employed by the Council for Mineral Technology in South Africa as a contract researcher where he conducted research into the plasma smelting of directly reduced iron. This led to a master’s degree in metallurgical engineering from The University of Pretoria in 1986. Dr. Van Der Schijff completed a PhD in metallurgy at the University of Connecticut in 1990 where he worked in the Institute of Materials Science under the advisorship of Professor Owen Devereux. In 2001, he was awarded an MBA from the Potchefstroom Business School at North–West University.

This page intentionally left blank.