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Professor Gregory Olson joined the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering as the Thermo-Calc Professor Practice in January 2020. He earned his degrees from MIT, starting with a Bachelor of Science in 1970. He worked under Professor Morris Cohen for his PhD, finishing in 1974. Over the years, he held various positions including research associate, principal research associate, and senior research associate. In 1988, he took a tenured full professor position at Northwestern University, where he was awarded the Walter P. Murphy Chair. In 1997, Professor Olson founded Questek Innovations, a company that applies Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) toolkits to solve industrial problems and has documented commercial successes in computational steel design. His research focuses on computational materials design and he is often referred to as the father of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME). His work covers the investigation of fracture resistance and the development of methodologies for designing high-performance alloy steels, intermetallic composites, ceramics, and polymers.