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Marc De Graef is a John Claire Bertucci Distinguished Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 1983, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1989, focusing on copper-based shape memory alloys. Following his doctoral studies, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 as an assistant professor. He is now a full professor and serves as the Faculty Director of the Materials Characterization Facility. Throughout his career, De Graef has received numerous awards including the George T. Ladd Research Award from Carnegie Mellon and Fellow designations from the Microscopy Society of America and the Materials Research Society. He has contributed significantly to the field of materials science, particularly in microscopy and materials characterization, and has developed software that aids materials scientists in creating orientation maps of low-quality materials.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on materials characterization.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, involved in teaching and research.
University of California, Santa Barbara • Santa Barbara, CA
Worked on materials-related research.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.