
Tresa Pollock
NAE, GASL
ALCOA Distinguished Professor
Materials
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Fellow of:
National Academy of Engineering, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS); German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
TMS-AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award; Elected Fellow of National Academy of Engineering, TMS, and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; AIME Raymond Award; ASM Silver Medal; ASM Jeffries Lecture
Research
Pollock's research interests include the mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments, unique high temperature materials processing paths, ultrafast laser-material interactions, alloy design and 3-D materials characterization. Her recent research has focused on thermal barrier coatings systems and platinum group metal-containing bond coats, new intermetallic-containing cobalt- base materials, vapor phase processing of sheet materials for hypersonic flight systems, growth of nickel-base alloy single crystals with a new liquid tin-assisted Bridgman technique, development of new femtosecond laser-aided 3-D tomography techniques and development of models for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering efforts.
PhD Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS Metallurgical Engineering, Purdue University