FM Interview

Dr. Carlijn Mulder is the Dutch scientist leading Niron Magnetics’ Magnet R&D department. She is taking the company’s breakthrough material out of the lab and into the world, hoping to reconcile technological progress with environmental sustainability.

June 7, 2024 • 8 min read Future Materials

A thermo-fluid-dynamic engineer on the 2013 NASA/JPL Insight Mars mission, and former Airbus Defense and Space thermal product manager, Bianca Cefalo is the CEO and co-founder of the startup Space DOTS, revolutionizing materials testing in space.

May 30, 2024 • 8 min read Future Materials

Dr. Y. Shirley Meng, is one of the world’s leading experts in nanomaterials for energy storage. She is a professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Chief Scientist for Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science.

May 28, 2024 • 8 min read Future Materials

Derek Stewart is the resident theorist for emerging non-volatile memory in Western Digital’s R&D. He is an expert in the computational modeling of new materials and nanostructures, taking the theoretical to the tangible.

May 23, 2024 • 9 min read Future Materials

Dr. Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, storyteller, and author. She blends craft-making and groundbreaking materials science research to help us understand our relationship to materials and how they impact our world.

May 21, 2024 • 7 min read Future Materials