Biography:Sean Hearne

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Sean Hearne
Sean Hearne, December 2023, Union Station, Washington DC
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
  • Materials science
  • Science leadership
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics / Materials Science
Institutions
ThesisStress creation and relaxation during thin film deposition (2000)
Doctoral advisorIgnatius Tsong

Sean Hearne is an American born physicist, who is the President and CEO of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and served as the 43'rd president of the Materials Research Society. Hearne was elected to be a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020[1][2] and a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024.[3]

Education

Hearne received his B.S. in Aviation Technology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Arizona State University.[4]

Career

Hearne spent 18 years as a scientist and manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he rose to be the co-director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. In 2019, joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the director of first the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and then the director of the Materials Science and Technology Division (MSTD). In 2022, Hearne became the President and CEO of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA).[5][6][7][8]

Hearne also sat on numerous boards and review committees including Princeton University's External Advisory Council for the Princeton Materials Institute [9] and Georgia Tech's advisory board for SENIC,[10] a National Science Foundation user facility.

Research

Hearne's spans material science, electrodeposition, grid scale energy storage, micro- and nanofabrication, and III-V semiconductors, with his most highly cited work being in residual stress in thin films.[11][12]

Other Interests

Hearne's interests included amateur auto racing. He raced both Spec Miata with SCCA and vintage Formula Ford [13] and traveled around the US racing as part of the Daniel's Racing team, led by New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Daniels.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Past MRS Presidents". https://www.mrs.org/about-mrs/the-society/past-mrs-presidents. 
  2. ↑ "Hearne named American Physical Society fellow". https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/2020/11/06/hearne-named-american-physical-society-fellow/6197002002/. 
  3. ↑ "2024 AAAS Fellows". https://www.aaas.org/programs/fellows/2024-aaas-fellows. 
  4. ↑ "Energy Storage for the Electric Grid – MegaWatts from picoWatts". https://cbe.unm.edu/events/hearne-abstract.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)". 29 April 2022. https://science.osti.gov/bes/suf/User-Facilities/Nanoscale-Science-Research-Centers/CINT. 
  6. ↑ "Hearne joins ORNL as director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences". 8 February 2019. https://www.ornl.gov/news/hearne-joins-ornl-director-center-nanophase-materials-sciences. 
  7. ↑ "Materials Science and Technology Division". https://www.ornl.gov/division/mstd. 
  8. ↑ "Dr. Sean J. Hearne Named SURA President and Chief Executive Officer". https://sura.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PR-20220119.pdf. 
  9. ↑ "PMI External Advisory Council". https://materials.princeton.edu/people/leadership/external-advisory-council. 
  10. ↑ "SENIC Advisory Board". https://senic.gatech.edu/about/advisory-board/. 
  11. ↑ "Sean Hearne". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YZ8HqEEAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  12. ↑ Chason, E; Sheldon, BW; Freund, LB; Floro, JA; Hearne, SJ (29 March 2002). "Origin of compressive residual stress in polycrystalline thin films". Physical Review Letters 88 (15). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.156103. PMID 11955209. Bibcode: 2002PhRvL..88o6103C. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=YZ8HqEEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=YZ8HqEEAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C. Retrieved 22 September 2023. 
  13. ↑ "CINT manager elected president of Materials Research Society". https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2016/10/27/hearne/. 
  14. ↑ "Racing Formula Fords in the SVRA's National Championships Is a Blast". Motortrend. 10 January 2019. https://www.motortrend.com/features/formula-ford-racing/. 



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