De Graef chosen for TMS Fellow Award – Class of 2020
MSE Professor Marc De Graef will be inducted as a 2020 Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). TMS members and the broader materials science and engineering community view being named a TMS Fellow as a pinnacle achievement, the mark of a true leader in the materials profession. De Graef's testimonal states: For pioneering scientific and educational contributions to the quantitative characterization of magnetic materials and 3-D material microstructures.
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As evidence of his accomplishments and impact on the materials field, some of his most significant contributions were listed as part of his nomination:
- Prof. De Graef has written two widely used text books, one at the graduate level ("Introduction to Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy", Cambridge University Press, 2003), and one at the undergraduate level ("Introduction to Crystallography, Diffraction and Symmetry", with M.E. McHenry, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2012). These books have a combined total of more than 720 citations.
- Prof. De Graef has contributed extensively in more than 90 papers to magnetic materials characterization (Lorentz transmission electron microscopy) and to the theory of demagnetization fields for uniformly magnetized objects of arbitrary shape. This led, in 2009, to him being awarded Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, for "pioneering, seminal research in the development and application of quantitative Lorentz methods for magnetic materials characterization, theoretical magnetostatics for nanoscale magnetism, and undergraduate and graduate electron microscopy education."
- Prof. De Graef's research group has produced the open source EMsoft package for simulation of electron-based materials characterization modalities; this package consists of more than 250,000 lines of source code and is currently used by more than 40 laboratories world wide for the simulation of electron backscattered diffraction and a variety of defect contrast simulations for transmission electron microscopy. The dictionary indexing method, a technique to index electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns was developed in De Graef's group, and is currently being implemented into one of the EBSD vendor software packages (EDAX/TSL).
- Prof. De Graef is the first CMU faculty member to receive a DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (2016), a prestigious five-year award that currently supports three graduate students and two post-doctoral researchers. This Fellowship was awarded partially in recognition for a very successful MURI research program for which Prof. De Graef was the principal investigator.
- One of Prof. De Graef's former graduate students, Charudatta Phatak, is currently an accomplished staff member at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he is continuing the development of Lorentz TEM techniques first developed at CMU.
The Class of Fellow is TMS’s highest honor. To be inducted, a candidate must be recognized as a leading authority and contributor to the practice of metallurgy, materials science, and technology. This includes scholarship, such as the publication of articles or books; the granting of patents; direction of important research or engineering work; and responsibility through management for nationally known improvements and developments in the field. A strong consideration is also given for outstanding service to the society.
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