Amit Misra receives Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award

April 12, 2011—Amit Misra of the Laboratory's Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies was honored with the 2011 Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award from the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division (MPMD) of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) at its recent annual meeting in San Diego.

He was recognized for his "fundamental understanding of processing-structure-property relations in nanolayered composites for structural and nuclear energy applications and for championing nanomechanics in the MPMD of TMS."

Misra is co-director of the Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes (CMIME), an Energy Frontier Research Center sponsored by DOE Basic Energy Sciences, and a scientist in MPA-CINT. His research includes defects and interfaces in materials, transmission electron microscopy, nanomechanics, and structural materials for nuclear energy. He has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. Misra joined LANL more than 14 years ago after obtaining his doctorate in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan.  In 2008, he received the LANL Fellows’ prize for outstanding research in nanomechanics.

TMS is a leading international professional society of almost 10,000 members that encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. MPMD covers manufacturing from product design to production, integrating process-control technology into manufacturing, and basic and applied research into key materials technologies that impact manufacturing processes. A key focus is the modeling, simulation, and control of materials as they affect manufacturing processes.