2025 International Election Results

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Sally McArthur
Deakin University

Sally McArthur is the Director of the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. As Director, she leads a team of ~400 staff and graduate students focused on creating materials and manufacturing processes for a circular economy and developing the materials with the extraordinary functionalities we need to support the energy, biotechnology, infrastructure, and manufacturing sectors.  Learn more
 

CLERK

David Surman
Kratos Analytical Inc.

David Surman has been a long-standing member of the AVS. In 2009, Dave accepted the position as the Chair of the Exhibitor & Manufacturers Committee. In 2011, he was elected to the AVS Board of Directors where he served a two-year term from 2012-2013. During his term on the AVS Board of Directors, he served as Chair of the Membership Committee, a position he held until 2019 .  Learn more
 

TREASURER

Gregory J. Exarhos
Pacific Northwest National Labs

Gregory J. Exarhos, a Laboratory Fellow emeritus within the Physical Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), graduated magna cum laude from Lawrence University and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Brown University. As an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, his group investigated cation motion in amorphous phases, phase transformation dynamics in amorphous materials, and electron-beam surface modification.  Learn more
 

DIRECTOR (2026-2027)

Andre Anders

Andre Anders has worked in the fields of plasmas, plasma-surface interactions, thin film deposition, plasma and ion sources, and many related areas for almost 40 years. He studied in Poland, East Germany, and the former Soviet Union, graduating with a PhD in Physics from Humboldt University in Berlin.  Learn more


 

DIRECTOR (2026-2027)

Stephanie Law
Penn State University

Stephanie Law is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at Penn State University. She is an AVS Fellow and is the Associate Director of the Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium. Stephanie received her B. S. in Physics from Iowa State University and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Learn more

 

DIRECTOR (2026-2027)

Scott Walton
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

Scott Walton is the Head of the Plasma Applications Section in the Plasma Physics Division at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC. He received a B.S. in physics from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in physics from the College of William and Mary (1998).  Learn more

 

TRUSTEE (2026-2028)

Corinne D'ambrosio
NPB Technology Group, Inc.

Corinne D'ambrosio is currently a managing partner with NPB Technology Group, Inc., the leading manufacturer’s representative company serving the Western and Southwestern United States specializing in high vacuum technology, components, consumables, and systems.  Learn more

 

TRUSTEE (2026-2028)

Chip Eddy
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (ret)

received a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1998 and BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 1988 and 1990, respectively. While a student at Boston University, he performed some of the first work on ECR plasma-assisted MBE growth of GaN. From 1990 through 1997, he was an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC.  
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