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Anthony Evans, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has become director of the Princeton Materials Institute. Evans joined the Princeton faculty on July 1, coming from Harvard, where he had been Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Engineering since 1994. He was previously Alcoa Professor and codirector of the High Performance Composites Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he established the university's Materials Department and served as its chair for six years. "Through his career as a researcher and his experience building the leading materials program at Santa Barbara, Anthony Evans has shown that he has both the scientific back-ground and the leadership qualities we want to inspire further achievement in our own materials effort," said Provost Jeremiah Ostriker. Evans's research interests include the thermomechanical and structural behaviors of high-performance load-bearing materials and multifunctional systems. He also studies multilayer materials, as well as fundamentals of adhesion at the interfaces of different materials. Author of over 400 publications in technical journals, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, chair of the Defense Sciences Research Council and a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He has won many honors, including the 1994 Griffith Medal and Prize of the U.K. Institute of Materials. A native of Wales, Evans earned his 1964 BSc and 1967 PhD in metallurgy at Imperial College, London. He worked at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md., before joining the Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in 1974. Four years later, he went to the University of California, Berkeley as a professor in materials science and mineral engineering. He moved to Santa Barbara as Alcoa Professor and codirector of the High Performance Composites Center in 1985. Said Evans, "I believe that Princeton has the potential to become a trend-setter and a force leading materials research in new directions important to the vitality of the field."
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