Alison Dunn won a 2023 Frontiers of Materials Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) for her work focused on surface mechanics in soft, water-swollen gels.
Selected awardees are chosen honored for their top-performing early careers and for showing themselves capable of organizing a symposium focused on an emergent technical topic at the 2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, March 19-23, 2023, in San Diego, California.
Dunn will organize a Frontiers of Materials Event – either a one-session or full-day symposium. She may deliver a keynote lecture during the event, to be followed by invited talks from top researchers in the topic area. She is also invited to organize a suite of thematic papers for an upcoming issue of the Journal of Materials.
Dunn’s symposium proposal focused on “Functional Composition Control of Surface Mechanics in Soft, Water-swollen Gels.”
Dunn also holds an Andersen Faculty Fellow appointment. Her research program in the Materials Tribology Laboratory, focuses on understanding and exploiting surface properties and structures to control sliding interfaces with the goal of improving health and energy.