OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 18, 2017 – Mike Fitzsimmons of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been elected vice president of the Materials Research Society (MRS). His three-year term starts in 2018 and will last three years.
Fitzsimmons, who is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Neutron Scattering Society of America, leads the Thin Films & Nanostructures group in ORNL's Neutron Sciences Directorate. He was MRS treasurer from 2010 to 2016.
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