Tresa M. Pollock

Education Pollock grew up in Ohio, near the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and was inspired to study Engineering by the experimental high tech aircraft at the base, as well as Amelia Earhart. This motivated her to enroll at Purdue University as a first generation college student. During her studies, Pollock was a co-op student with Allison Gas Turbine (now Rolls-Royce) in Indianapolis. For her doctoral studies, she worked with Ali S. Argon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed her PhD in Materials Science in 1989. and developed high temperature alloys for aircraft turbine engines. Pollock is a pioneer in the use of femtosecond lasers for 3D tomography of materials. Pollock also acts as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for MAPP (a UK consortium for advanced materials processing).

Awards and recognition 1992 Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation

2011 TMS Structural Materials Distinguished Service Award

2018 AIME Honorary membership

2018 Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award

2021 Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award