The Acta journals welcome two new Editors

I am pleased to announce the addition of Professors Christopher R. Hutchinson and Tadashi Furuhara as new editors for the Acta Journals.  Prof. Hutchinson and Prof. Furuhara will both have joint appointments between Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia.

Christopher Hutchinson is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. He joined Monash in 2004 after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Grenoble Institute of Technology in France. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Virginia, USA in 2001.  Prof. Hutchinson’s research is focused on physical and mechanical metallurgy and contains both experimental and modelling components. He has a particular focus on solid state phase transformations in metals and alloys and mesoscale modelling of microstructure evolution and its link with mechanical response. Prof. Hutchinson has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters and review articles. He has received a number of best paper awards and maintains strong interdisciplinary collaborations with the fields of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Tadashi Furuhara received the degrees of BE (1983) and ME (1985) in Metal Science and Technology from Kyoto University, Japan and PhD (1989) in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University, USA.  In 1989, he joined, as a faculty member, the Department of Metal Science and Technology at Kyoto University.  In 2005, he moved to the Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University as Professor of Microstructure Control in Structural Metallic Materials Laboratory.  Prof. Furuhara’s major research interests have been in physical metallurgy and microstructure/property control of alloys including steels, titanium alloys, etc.  He has published over 200 papers in refereed scientific journals and co-authored 15 books.  His work has been recognized by various awards, including Tanigawa-Harris Award of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (2015), the Technology Award of the Japan Titanium Society (2006), the Nishiyama Memorial Award of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (2000), and the Vanadium Award of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) (2005, 2016).  Prior to his appointment as an editor of Acta/Scripta Materialia in 2017, Prof. Furuhara served as editorial board member of several journals, including on the boards of review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and Materials Science and Engineering A, as an associate editor of ISIJ International, and as an editor-in-chief of Materia Japan.

Professors Hutchinson and Furuhara were brought on board through a successful search for two new editors with strong reputations in strong and growing areas for Acta and Scripta Materialia, and to assist the editorial team in addressing the evolving needs of our journals.  We feel very fortunate to be welcoming them to the Acta Journals’ editorial boards.

Christopher A. Schuh 

Coordinating Editor

The Acta Journals