Prof Gregory B Olson

Thermo-Calc Professor of the Practice
Founder, QuesTek International LLC

Primary DLC

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

MIT Room: 4-415

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Computational Materials Science
Systems-Based Computational Materials Engineering
Materials Genomics

Research Summary

Olson is a co-founder of the multi-institutional NIST-supported CHiMaD Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Director of its SRG Design Consortium, and a founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC, the leading materials design company. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a fellow of ASM and TMS, he has authored more than 300 publications.

Recent awards include the ASM Campbell Memorial Lectureship, the Cambridge University Kelly Lectureship, the ASM Gold Medal, the TMS Morris Cohen Award, and an honorary doctorate from KTH-Stockholm.

Recent Work