Alexander H. King, Director

311 TASF
Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
515-294-2770

Employment:

• 1999-2007 Professor and Head, School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
• 1981-99 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (1984), then Professor (1990), Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• 1987-92 Associate Vice Provost, Acting Vice Provost (1989), then Vice Provost for Graduate Studies (1990), State University of New York at Stony Brook (concurrent with above faculty appointment)
• 1979-81 Research Associate, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1979 Postdoctoral Fellow (Harwell EMR Fellow), Dept. of Metallurgy & Science of Materials, University of Oxford, England

Education:

• 1975-79 D.Phil., University of Oxford, England, Metallurgy & Science of Materials
  1972-75 B.Met.(Hons.), University of Sheffield, England, Physical Metallurgy
  

Honors, Awards and Special Achievements:

• 1995 Fellow of the American Society for Materials
• 1995 Fellow of the Institute of Materials of the United Kingdom
• 1996 Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2002 President of MRS
• 2002 Frontiers of Materials Science Lecture: Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab
  
• 2003 Burgess Memorial Lecture: Washington DC Chapter of ASM International
  
• 2005 Distinguished Lecture: Materials Science & Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
  
• 2005-06 State Department / National Academies Jefferson Science Fellow
  
• 2006 Chair of the Gordon Conference on Physical Metallurgy
  
• 2007 Distinguished Lecture: Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University

Standing Committee and Board Memberships:

• 1998-03 MRS: Board of Directors
  
• 2004- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Directorate Review Committee for the Division of Chemical, Biological and Materials Science
  
• 2005- University of Maryland: Board of Visitors for Materials Science & Engineering
  
• 2007- Sandia National Laboratory: External Review Panel for the Materials Science & Technology Research Foundation
  
• 2007- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Scientific Review Committee for the National Center for Electron Microscopy

Membership in Professional Societies:

• The Metallurgical Society of A.I.M.E.
  
• American Society for Materials International
  
• Materials Research Society
  
• Microscopy Society of America
  
• American Physical Society
  
• The Institute of Materials (U.K.)
  
• American Society for Engineering Education
  
• The American Ceramic Society
  
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Other Professional Qualifications:

Chartered Engineer (U.K. Professional Engineer Status)