Professor Marc De Graef Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D., Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) Department of Materials Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Roberts Engineering Hall 130 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: Phone: (412) 268-8527 Fax: (412) 268-7596 Professor De Graef's Web Site

Biography

Professor De Graef received his BS and MS 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 post-doctoral researcher in the Materials Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara before joining Carnegie Mellon in 1993 as an assistant professor.He is currently professor and co-director of the J. Earle and Mary Roberts Materials Characterization Laboratory.

Research Interests

Professor De Graef’s research interests lie in the area of microstructural characterization of structural intermetallics and magnetic materials. His current focus is on the development of experimental and modeling techniques for the quantitative study of magnetic domain configurations in a variety of materials, including ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, magnetic thin films, and patterned structures. This study includes a theoretical analysis of the use of shape functions in the computation of shape-dependent material properties. A second research focus is on the acquisition and representation of the three-dimensional character of microstructures. Work in this area includes development of experimental and numerical techniques to extract quantitative3-D data from serial sectioning experiments using a focused ion beam or the recently acquired RoboMet.3D automated metallography instrument.

Recent Publications

C. Phatak, M. Beleggia, and M. De Graef, “Vector field tomography of magnetic materials: Theoretical development,” Ultramicroscopy, vol. 108, pp. 503-513, 2008.

J.P. MacSleyne, J.P. Simmons, and M. De Graef, “On the use of moment invariants for the automated analysis of 3-D particle shapes,” Modeling and Simulations in Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 16, pp. 045008, 2008.

C. Phatak and M. De Graef, “Is a Cs corrector necessary for Lorentz vector field tomography?” Microscopy Today, vol. 15, pp. 24-27, 2007.

S.P. Venkateswaran, N.T. Nuhfer, and M. De Graef, “Magnetic domain memory in multiferroic Ni2MnGa,” Acta Materialia, vol. 55, pp. 5419-5427, 2007.

M. De Graef and M.E. McHenry, Structure of Materials: An Introduction to Crystallography, Diffraction, and Symmetry, Cambridge University Press, 2007.