Marc De Graef

Marc De Graef 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, with a thesis on copper-based shape memory alloys. He then spent three and a half years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 as an assistant professor. He is currently a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and faculty director of the J. Earle and Mary Roberts Materials Characterization Laboratory. In 2023, he was appointed as the John and Claire Bertucci Distinguished Professor of Engineering. He was recogized as the 2025 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award in the physical sciences by the Microscopy Society of America (MSA).