Prof. Gregory Olson
Greg Olson is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. He is a co-founder of the multi-institutional NIST-supported CHiMaD Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Director of its SRG Design Consortium, and a founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a fellow of ASM and TMS, he has authored more than 300 publications. He received a BS and MS in 1970 and ScD in 1974 in materials science from MIT and remained there in a series of senior research positions before joining Northwestern University as Professor in 1988, where he was appointed Wilson-Cook Professor of Engineering Design in 1999, W. P. Murphy Professor in 2010, and Professor Emeritus in 2019, before returning to MIT in 2020. Recent awards include the ASM Campbell Memorial Lectureship, the Cambridge University Kelly Lectureship, the ASM Gold Medal, the TMS Morris Cohen Award, the TMS Cyril Smith Award, the TMS Weertman Educator Award, and an honorary doctorate from KTH-Stockholm.
Current Members
Brandon Snow, PhD Candidate
Ekin Senvardarli, Graduate Student
Dr. Florian Hengsbach, Visiting Scholar (PhD, University of Paderborn)
Julian Rackwitz, PhD Candidate
Krista Biggs, PhD Candidate
Dr. Margianna Tzini, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Nutth Tuchinda, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Owain Houghton, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Ryuichi Suehiro, Visiting Scientist
You Na Lee, Graduate Student
Alumni
Dr. Chuan Liu, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (Northwestern University)
Dr. Alvin Tan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. S. Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, Postdoctoral Researcher
Clay Houser, Visiting Student (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University)
Cole Kuehmann, Visiting Student
Takuji Otake, Visiting Scholar (Daido Steel)