Amanda R. Krause

Dr. Amanda R. Krause is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). She received her B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Brown University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 2022, she was an Assistant Professor at University of Florida (2019-2022) and a post-doctoral research associate at Lehigh University (2016-2018). She has authored over 30 journal articles on topics pertaining to ceramics, including grain growth, powder processing, and the performance of thermal and environmental barrier coatings. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2022) and the Wimmer Faculty Fellowship (2023) from CMU’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation. She is currently the chair-elect for the Basic Science Division and serves on the Education & Professional Development Committee and as a society representative for Materials Advantage. Her research focus is engineering microstructures and grain boundaries to improve the mechanical performance and degradation response of ceramics used in extreme environments. She specializes in microstructural characterization with an emphasis on 3D x-ray diffraction microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Additionally, she leads a team that builds machine learning techniques to predict microstructure evolution. Her research group uses these tools to elucidate the mechanisms governing sintering and grain boundary migration to improve ceramic processing.