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Bharat Jalan
Bharat Jalan is an American materials scientist and Shell Chair professor at the University of Minnesota who develops hybrid molecular beam epitaxy for complex oxide films.
Caroline A. Ross
Caroline A. Ross is a materials scientist and Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT who joined in 1997 and studies magnetic oxide thin films and block copolymer nanolithography.
Cheol Seong Hwang
Cheol Seong Hwang (황철성) is a Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University who worked at Samsung Electronics and is known for identifying the conducting nanofilaments in TiO2 resistive-switching memory in 2010.
Chun‐Lin Jia
Chun-Lin Jia is a German-based Chinese materials scientist who leads a group at Forschungszentrum Jülich and is known for inventing negative spherical-aberration imaging, which made oxygen atoms directly visible in perovskite ceramics.
Daniel Christopher Worledge
Daniel Christopher Worledge is an IBM materials scientist and Senior Manager of MRAM who developed embedded STT-MRAM technology, earning the 2025 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and 2024 NAE election.
Darrell G. Schlom
Darrell G. Schlom is an American materials scientist at Cornell University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Sciences, known for oxide thin-film growth and materials-by-design.
David Jiles
David C. Jiles is an engineer and physicist in applied magnetism, best known for the Jiles–Atherton model of ferromagnetic hysteresis, and a professor at Iowa State University.
Dennis Meier
Dennis Meier is a materials scientist working on ferroelectric domain walls and oxide nanoelectronics, known for half-wave rectification at domain walls and a 2025 cryogenic memristor.
Donald M. Smyth
Donald M. Smyth was an American materials scientist and chemist, a Lehigh University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for work on the defect chemistry of electronic ceramics.
Emmanuel Defaÿ
Emmanuel Defaÿ, also published as Emmanuel Defay, is a materials scientist who heads the Smart Materials Unit at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, working on piezoelectric thin films.
Gustau Catalán
Gustau Catalán is a Spanish materials scientist and ICREA Research Professor at the ICN2 near Barcelona, where he leads the Oxide Nanophysics Group and studies flexoelectricity and oxide ferroics at the nanoscale.
Ichiro Takeuchi
Ichiro Takeuchi is a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, where he chairs Materials Science and Engineering and pioneered combinatorial materials synthesis and elastocaloric solid-state cooling.
Jack H. Wernick
Jack H. Wernick (Jack Harry Wernick, 1923–2006) was an American materials scientist who led device-materials research at Bell Laboratories and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Jacob L. Jones
Jacob L. Jones is an American materials scientist at North Carolina State University known for X-ray and neutron scattering studies of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.
James Rondinelli
James Rondinelli is a computational materials scientist who is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and received a PECASE award in 2016.
Jan Seidel
Jan Seidel is a physicist and materials scientist, professor at UNSW Sydney since 2012, known for his 2009 discovery that ferroelectric domain walls conduct electricity.
Jiangyu Li
Jiangyu Li (李江宇) is a Chinese materials scientist known for work on ferroelectric materials, a professor at the University of Washington from 2006 to 2019 and now chair professor and department head at SUSTech in Shenzhen.
Judith Driscoll
Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll is a materials scientist, Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, known for nanoscale engineering of functional oxide thin films for energy applications.
Junqiao Wu
Junqiao Wu is a materials scientist who chairs materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley, known for work on vanadium dioxide and a temperature-adaptive radiative roof coating published in Science in 2021.
Jürgen Rödel
Jürgen Rödel is a German materials scientist who headed nonmetallic-inorganic materials at TU Darmstadt from 1994 until retiring in 2024, known for dislocation engineering of ferroelectrics and lead-free piezoceramics.
Katharine Page
Katharine (Kate) Page is a materials scientist and neutron scattering instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee professor who received a PECASE award in 2019.
L. Eric Cross
L. Eric Cross, born Leslie Eric Cross (1923–2016), was a British-born materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University who established the phenomenology of PZT and relaxor ferroelectrics.
Lane Martin
Lane W. Martin is an American materials scientist who studies ferroelectric and multiferroic oxide thin films; he directs the Rice Advanced Materials Institute at Rice University.
LeGrand Van Uitert
LeGrand Van Uitert (1922, Salt Lake City – 1999) was an American chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories whose crystal-growth work created the Nd:YAG solid-state laser, earning the 1993 R. W. Wood Prize.
Lin Gu
Lin Gu (谷林) is a Chinese materials scientist known for atomic-scale electron microscopy of ferroelectric oxides and battery cathodes, and a professor at Tsinghua University since 2022.
Naoya Shibata
Naoya Shibata (柴田 直哉) is a Japanese materials scientist and University of Tokyo professor who developed atomic-resolution differential phase-contrast imaging and a magnetic-field-free electron microscope.
Nesbitt Hagood
Nesbitt W. Hagood IV is an American aeronautical engineer and former MIT professor who founded the Active Materials and Structures Laboratory and later the display company Pixtronix, acquired by Qualcomm.
Nini Pryds
Nini Pryds is a Danish materials scientist who heads the Functional Oxide Materials section at the Technical University of Denmark, studying oxide interfaces and elastocaloric heat pumps.
Oliver Gutfleisch
Oliver Gutfleisch is a German materials scientist, professor of Functional Materials at TU Darmstadt since 2012, known for magnetic cooling research, permanent magnets, and the recycling of rare earths.
Paul Ohodnicki
Paul R. Ohodnicki Jr. is an American materials scientist and engineer known for harsh-environment optical fiber sensors and magnetic nanocrystalline materials, who received a PECASE award at NETL.