Newswise — March 23, 2015 – Warrendale, Pennsylvania (USA) – The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) installed Patrice E.A. Turchi as its 2015 President on Tuesday, March 17, at the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. Turchi is Advanced Metallurgical Science and Engineering Group Leader, Materials Science Division, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California.
Turchi has been an active member of TMS for more than 25 years, and has served on the TMS Board of Directors as chair of the Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division (now the Functional Materials Division). He served as vice-president of the society in 2014.
Upon his installation as TMS President, Turchi addressed an audience of colleagues, award recipients, and guests at the TMS & AIME Awards Banquet on Tuesday evening, a highlight of the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. "Early on, in 1989, and although affiliated with other societies, I found my home at TMS for many reasons," said Turchi. "One is that TMS is a bottom-up organization, and this provides opportunities for any one of its members to shape programming and many of its other activities and products through a very friendly and democratic process, via its 33 technical committees, five technical divisions, and 20 administrative committees. I was also very much attracted by the diversity in programming from minerals processing and primary metal production to recycling with basic and applied sciences and advanced applications in between – a great way to follow materials from birth to end of life and revitalization."
As president, Turchi said he has plans to advance TMS at the international level through increased cooperation with other North and South American materials societies, at the U.S. level by working to attract students to materials science and engineering, and at the society level by encouraging TMS committee and division leaders to think about the work that they do in terms of the society's five strategic goals: diversity and inclusion, increased industrial engagement, international outreach, energy and sustainability, and materials and manufacturing.
"TMS presidents represent the rank-and-file members who, like myself, started to give time as volunteers, and who recognized over the years that empowering TMS to meet the current and future needs of its membership could also help better advance our profession," Turchi said. "I am honored to be entrusted with the responsibility."
Turchi received a Ph.D. in solid-state physics and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Paris VI, France, after obtaining his Engineering diploma from the National Superior School of Chemistry of Paris. He was a professor at the University of Paris VI for 11 years, a visiting scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, for one year, and has been at LLNL for more than 28 years.
His research interests encompass computational materials science and condensed matter physics with an emphasis on alloy theory from first-principles electronic structure, and stability and physical properties of complex assemblies. Turchi has given more than 310 presentations, authored or co-authored more than 295 publications, sits on the review boards of several scientific journals, and has received several professional honors and awards. Turchi has chaired TMS's Alloy Phases Committee and various administrative committees. He also has been a member of several TMS technical advisory groups, a contributor to several recent TMS reports, and organizer of 15 TMS and three Materials Research Society symposia, two NATO-Advanced Study Institutes, and one NATO-Advanced Research Workshop. Turchi is co-founder of the International Alloy Conference, chair of the Alloy Phase Diagram Committee at ASM International, and a member of the Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission. ABOUT TMS The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a member-driven international professional society dedicated to fostering the exchange of learning and ideas across the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production, to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. For more information on TMS, visit www.tms.org.
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