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Page, Safin Honored at MRS Fall Meeting

Materials Science Professor Katharine Page and doctoral student Joshua Safin were individually recognized at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit, which took place November 30-December 5, 2025, in Boston.

One of the world’s premier scientific gatherings for materials research, the Fall Meeting served as a key forum for presenting cutting-edge research and fostering collaboration across disciplines.

Page was recognized as one of two Early Career Distinguished Presenters worldwide for her presentation during the Symposium SF03-High-Entropy Materials. The title recognizes important individual contributions to the field and amplifies exciting new directions for the materials research community.

Safin, a fourth-year doctoral student, received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the meeting for his presentation during the Symposium SF03-High-Entropy Materials. Safin’s presentation, titled “Developing Ultra Hard, Low Thermal Conductivity Rare Earth Transition Metal Pyrochlores by Broadening Elemental Compatibility Through Compositional Complexity,” reflects his work in Page’s National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER project.

Page’s appearance was one of many she will be making at major conferences worldwide this year, including:

  • At the 34th Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK) in Lubeck, Germany (February 25-28), where Page will give the plenary talk, “Compositionally Complex Oxides: A Modern Frontier.”
  • At the ACerS Spring Meeting 2026 in Bellevue, Washington (April 12-17), where Page will give a keynote lecture, “Seeing hydrogen in ceramics: neutrons, symmetry, and structure-property relationship,” during the SYMPOSIUM 11-BSD|ED: Characterization of Structure-Property Relationships in Functional Ceramics: Advances in connecting local and global structure to properties.
  • At the 2026 Triennial Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (August 11-18), where Page has been selected to give the keynote lecture.

Contact

Rhiannon Potkey ([email protected])