Funded Researchers
Cem Tasan
- Thomas B. King Associate Professor of Metallurgy
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor Cem Tasan is the Thomas B. King Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) at MIT. He received his PhD in mechanics of materials from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Then he moved to Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany, where he worked first as a post-doctoral researcher, then as a group leader. He joined DMSE at MIT in January 2016 and received tenure there in May 2022. Professor Tasan explores the boundaries of physical metallurgy, solid mechanics, and in-situ microscopy in order to design new alloys with exceptional damage-resistance.
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