Marc De Graef
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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 co-director of the J. Earle and Mary Roberts Materials Characterization Laboratory.
Education
1989 Ph.D., Physics, Catholic University of Leuven
1983 MS, Physics, University of Antwerp
1983 BS, Physics, University of Antwerp
Media mentions
CMU Engineering
Air Force partnership to fuse AI and materials research
CMU and Air Force Research Laboratory establish 5-year, $7.5M Center of Excellence in data-driven materials research.
De Graef to deliver keynote at Microscopy Society of South Africa conference
MSE’s Marc De Graef has been invited by the Microscopy Society of South Africa to present the 2019 John Matthews Materials Sciences Keynote Lecture at the Society’s 56th Annual Conference in Langebaan, South Africa, on December 3rd, 2019. This will be followed by an invited talk at a two-day workshop immediately after the conference.
Microscopy & Microanalysis
De Graef receives best paper award from Microscopy and Microanalysis
MSE’s Marc De Graef received a best paper award from Microscopy and Microanalysis for his paper, "Dictionary Indexing of Electron Channeling Patterns."
Industrial Heating
De Graef publishes first column in Industrial Heating
MSE’s Marc De Graef published his first column in the March 2018 issue of Industrial Heating.
CMU Engineering
Lab reveals the secret life of materials
At Carnegie Mellon’s Materials Characterization Facility (MCF), students and faculty have access to the full gamut of today’s most advanced materials characterization technology.