Choudhury receives professional development award

January 6, 2011—Samrat Choudhury of the Laboratory's Structure/Property Relations group has received the 2011 Young Leader Professional Development Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). The Society created the annual award to enhance the professional development of dynamic young people from TMS's five technical divisions. Choudhury is a member of the Electronic, Magnetic, and Photonic Materials Division.

Awardees participate in Society activities, attend TMS conferences, network with Society members and leaders, receive mentoring from TMS division leaders, and serve as judges for division-sponsored student events at the TMS Annual Meeting.

After earning a doctorate in materials science and engineering from Pennsylvania State University, Choudhury became a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He joined LANL as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow in April 2010. His research interests include understanding the role of defects/interfaces and multi-component diffusion on micro/nanostructure formation and evolution under a variety of conditions. He links this information to material properties. Choudhury employs a multi-scale computational approach ranging from the atomistic to continuum scale. His approach includes ab-initio, cluster expansion, kinetic Monte Carlo, rate theory, and phase-field to study functional and structural properties of ceramics and alloys.

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is an international professional organization of nearly 10,000 members. It encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced applications of materials.