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 2 3 1 Shape Memory & Superelastic Technologies SHAPE MEMORY SOCIETY NEWS SMST ANNOUNCES NEW OFFICERS AND MEMBERS The Shape Memory & Superelastic Technologies (SMST) board, at the recommendation of the SMST Awards and Nominations Committee named two new officers, Ashley Bucsek as president and Srinidhi Nagaraja as vice president/finance officer to serve on the SMST Board for the 20222024 term. Newmembers to serve on the SMST Board for the 2022-2025 term are Frederick (Tad) Calkins, Maximilien Launey, and William LePage, reappointed are Tom Duerig, FASM, and Martin Wagner to serve on the SMST Board for the 2022-2025 term; and appointed is Eathan Devine to serve as Student Board Member for a one-year term 20222023. Continuing on the board are Othmane Benafan, FASM, (immediate past president), members Timofei Chekalkin, Parikshith Kumar, Jochen Ulmer, and Andreas Undisz. Retiring from the board are Jeremy Schaffer, Adrian McMahon, and Faith Gantz. Alan Pelton and Darel Hodgson will continue to be advisors on the board. Ashley Bucsek is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota, a visiting scientist on beamline ID06 at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow at Colorado School of Mines where she received her Ph.D. and master’s in mechanical engineering. Bucsek’s research uses three-dimensional in-situ x-ray microscopy techniques to study micromechanics and microstructure evolution in structural and functional materials. She is an Editorial Advisory Board member of Shape Memory and Superelasticity, an APS Imaging/Microbeam Proposal Review Panel member, an APS Users’ Organization Steering Committee member, a CHESS User Executive Committee member, and the Community Development Officer for the IUCr Commission on Diffraction Microstructure Imaging. Bucsek is a 2022 NSF CAREER award recipient, and her research is funded under the DOE, AFOSR, and NSF. Srinidhi (Srin) Nagaraja is currently a technical fellow at G. Rau Inc., a medical device and materials technology company. He serves as an advisor to medical device firms for material processing, material analysis, and design verification testing of Nitinol-based implants. His research interests focus on durability, corrosion resistance, and nickel release from Nitinol devices. Previously, Nagaraja spent over 10 years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a principal investigator for studies on the mechanical integrity and corrosion performance of Nitinol-based medical devices. He was also involved in regulatory device submissions as a technical consultant for Nitinol medical devices. Nagaraja has published approximately 50 scientific articles, including in the Shape Memory and Superelasticity journal. He is an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America and previously held faculty appointments at the University of Maryland and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Frederick (Tad) Calkins has an extensive background developing SMA technology and implementing applications in the aerospace industry. This includes numerous full-scale demonstrations, wind tunnel tests, and flight tests of SMA based systems for aircraft performance improvement. He is the principal investigator for Boeing Research & Technology’s program on Remote Control Actuation of windtunnel models using SMA actuation. Calkins was a founder and the first executive chairman of SMA trade group, Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology (CASMART). Within Boeing, he is a technical leader in the Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures field and considered the company expert in SMA aerospace applications. He has given numerous invited speeches on SMA technology and applications to industry partners, universities, government groups, and professional conferences, including a plenary speech on SMA actuators at the 2010 SMST conference. He teaches classes to Boeing engineers on SMA, smart materials, and smart structures technology. Calkins has been awarded over 40 U.S. patents on SMA devices and technology and authored over 80 articles and books in the field. Maximilien Launey is currently director of materials engineering at Edwards Lifesciences. He is managing the Materials Engineering group within the Metals Center of Excellence. He and his group are focusing on the microstructure-processing-properties relationships of shape memory and superelastic materials, including NiTi and NiTi-based materials. His current R&D activities include alloy development, surface characterization, additive manufacturing and mechanical characterization (fatigue and fracture) of metallic materials, including Nitinol. A materials scientist Bucsek Nagaraja Calkins Launey 3
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