Professor Mark Asta has won this year’s MRS David Turnbull Lectureship! According to MRS, The prestigious David Turnbull Lectureship “recognizes the career contribution of a scientist to fundamental understanding of the science of materials through experimental and/or theoretical research”. Mark joins a long list of Berkeley MSE winners of the award including Ritchie…

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Accelerating Materials Discovery With World’s Largest Database of Elastic Properties by Materials Science and Engineering May 8, 2015 A team of Berkeley Lab scientists, including MSE department’s Chair Mark Asta and Ph.D. candidate Maarten de Jong, have published the world’s largest database of the complete elastic properties of inorganic compounds. The data set is expected…

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