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A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | O C T O B E R 2 0 2 0 3 3 SMST ANNOUNCES NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS The Shape Memory & Superelastic Technologies (SMST) board, at the recommendation of the SMST Awards and Nom- inations Committee, named new officer Adrian McMahon to serve on the SMST Board for the 2020-2022 term as vice pres- ident/finance officer. Reappointed are Othmane Benafan (president) and Jeremy Schaffer (immediate past president) to serve on the SMST Board for the 2020-2022 term. Newmem- bers are Ashley Buscek and Jochen Ulmer to serve on the SMST Board for the 2020-2023 term; reappointed is Parikshith Kumar to serve on the SMST Board for the 2020-2023 term. Faith Gantz will serve as Student Board Member for a one year term 2020-2021. Continuing on the board as members are Frederick Calkins, Tom Duerig, Aaron Stebner, Andreas Undisz, and Martin Wagner. Retiring from the board is Julianna Abel. Alan Pelton and Darel Hodgson will continue to be advisors on the board. Adrian McMahon is a principal R&D engineer, current- ly working for Boston Scientific in Galway, Ireland. With over 15 years’ experience working in the MedTech industry, McMa- hon’s interest in shape memory alloys was sparked during his time working on the SADRA/BSC acquisition where he transi- tioned into the Structural Heart R&D Materials group, working on the development of next-generation, high cycle fatigue Ni- tinol wire for use in TAVR heart valves. McMahon nowworks as the Structural Reliability team lead for Structural Heart in Gal- way, aswell as technical lead for the LOTUSMantra next-gener- ation valve development. He first got involvedwithSMSTwhen asked to help organize a local MedTech focused SMST event in Galway, Ireland inMay 2019, and later that year was appointed to the board of directors, where he continues to serve. Ashley Buscek is an assistant professor in the Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (2018) where her research was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the NASA Glenn Research Center. She was a President’s Post- doctoral Fellow in the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at the University of Minnesota (2018-2019) and a visiting scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Fa- cility (2017). Her expertise lies in studying the relationships between micromechanics and macroscopic behavior in struc- tural and functional materials using in situ three-dimensional x-ray characterization techniques. Some of her current inter- ests include the mechanical behavior of microarchitectured shape memory alloys, twin nucleation in hcp metals, and tita- nium alloys during mechanical loading at high temperatures. Faith Gantz is a master’s/Ph.D. student of materials sci- ence and engineering at the University of North Texas. Gantz returned to higher education in the Dallas area with a desire to pursue art conservation. After being introduced to mate- rials science, she developed an interest in shape memory al- loys (SMAs). Gantz has collaborated with the Dallas Museum of Art Ceramic and Metal Work Collection and the Forging Foundation, working on high-entropy alloy (HEAs) research in Dr. Marcus L. Young’s research group. The laser coating HEAs research earned her a Charles W. Finkl Scholarship sponsored by the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation. Her master’s thesis and Ph.D. work on SMAs received support from the NASA ULI program. She also interned at the NASA Glenn Research Center. As an undergraduate, Gantz present- ed research on the effects of Ni in NiTiHf SMAs during thermo- mechanical processing at SMST 2019, winning 2nd place in the poster competition. Duerig Wagner Benafan Ulmer Schaffer Calkins Kumar McMahon Stebner Undisz 3 SHAPE MEMORY SOCIETY NEWS Buscek Gantz