Wolverton Selected to Receive 2025 MRS Materials Theory Award
The honor recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory
Northwestern Engineering’s Chris Wolverton has been selected to receive the 2025 Materials Theory Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS).
Wolverton, Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering, is being honored for outstanding contributions to the development and application of “ab initio materials prediction methods to practical materials problems.” The award recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials.
“I’m deeply honored to receive this award, and it is not the result of one person alone,” Wolverton said. “I’m grateful to all the students, postdocs, colleagues, and mentors who inspired and supported me along the way.”
As part of the award, Wolverton will deliver the lecture “Computational Materials Discovery in the Age of AI” at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, scheduled for Dec. 3 in Boston.
Wolverton’s research uses computational methods to accelerate the discovery and design of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly materials, employing modeling techniques that link atomic-scale behavior to larger-scale material properties.
MRS is an organization of materials researchers worldwide that promotes communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research and technology to improve the quality of life.