John Allison

John Allison is the William F. Hosford Collegiate Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering at The University of Michigan. He is Director of the Center for PRedictive
Integrated Structural Materials Science (PRISMS). He joined the faculty in September
2010. Prior to that he was a member of the research staff at Ford Motor Company, where
he was employed for 27 years. Dr. Allison is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, a fellow of TMS and ASM International and currently serves on the
DOE-BES Advisory Committee. His area of expertise is the physical metallurgy of light
alloys, mechanical behavior of metals and Integrated Computational Materials
Engineering.