Amy J. Clarke is an American metallurgist whose research has involved "physical metallurgy and making, measuring, and modeling metallic alloys during processing to realize advanced manufacturing", including both high-strength steel and alloys of uranium.[1] She holds joint appointments as a distinguished scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Sigma Manufacturing Science Division, and as a research faculty member in the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.[2][3]
Education and career
editClarke grew up in Houghton, Michigan, and became an undergraduate at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, where her parents were both alumni. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in metallurgical and materials engineering in 2000. Next, she went to the Colorado School of Mines for graduate study, receiving a master's degree and Ph.D. for research on steel.[1] Her 2006 doctoral dissertation, Carbon partitioning into austenite from martensite in a silicon-containing high strength sheet steel, was supervised by John G. Speer.[4]
She joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a G.T. Seaborg Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, before returning to the Colorado School of Mines as a faculty member.[1] There, she became John Henry Moore Endowed Chair of Metallurgy and co-director of the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys.[1][3] She subsequently returned to Los Alamos, retaining a joint appointment as research faculty at the Colorado School of Mines.[2]
Recognition
editClarke was the 2007 recipient of the Willy Korf Award for Young Excellence for her doctoral dissertation. She was a 2011 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.[5] Michigan Technological University named her as an Outstanding Young Alumna in 2013.[1]
She was named as a Fellow of ASM International in 2018.[2] She was one of six 2020 Brimacombe Medalists of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, honored "for profound and lasting contributions to materials science through the use of advanced techniques, educating and mentoring the next generation, and dedicated service to TMS".[6]
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 5 "Amy J. Clarke", Alumni profiles, Michigan Tech Materials Science and Engineering, retrieved 2026-02-19
- 1 2 3 "Amy Clarke", Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, retrieved 2026-02-19
- 1 2 "Amy J. Clarke", MRS Presents, Materials Research Society, retrieved 2026-02-19
- ↑ Clarke, Amy (2006), Carbon partitioning into austenite from martensite in a silicon-containing high strength sheet steel (Ph.D. thesis), Colorado School of Mines, hdl:11124/170369
- ↑ "Work in Nuclear Reactor Fuels Earns Alumna Presidential Award", Mines Magazine, retrieved 2026-02-19
- ↑ "Brimacombe Medalist", Honors & Awards, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, retrieved 2026-02-19
External links
edit- Amy J. Clarke publications indexed by Google Scholar