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Suhas Eswarappa Prameela is currently the MIT Engineering Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow, jointly affiliated with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting scholar at Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests span high-throughput materials discovery for extreme environments, mechanical behaviour across length scales and timescales, metallurgy, propulsion materials, metal additive manufacturing and materials informatics.

Tresa M. Pollock is the Alcoa Distinguished Chair of Materials at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments, unique high-temperature materials processing paths, ultrafast laser–material interactions, alloy design and 3D materials characterization. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Editor in Chief of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.

Dierk Raabe studied music, metallurgy and metal physics. Since 1999 he has been a director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, and he is a professor at RWTH Aachen and at KU Leuven. His interests are in computational materials science, sustainable metallurgy, alloy design, hydrogen and atom probe tomography. He is a member of the Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Marc André Meyers is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California San Diego. His research interests are the dynamic behaviour of materials, including dynamic synthesis and processing, the deformation of nanocrystalline materials and the mechanical behaviour of biological materials. The author of four books and hundreds of papers, he also writes fiction and is a fellow of the Explorers Club.

Assel Aitkaliyeva is an associate professor of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research interests lie in the area of radiation effects in materials, nuclear fuels, and the stability of low-dimensional materials in extreme radiation environments.

Kerri-Lee Chintersingh is an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a former process control engineer from Jamaica. Her current research focuses on developing, characterizing and testing materials for combustion, environmental and catalytic applications, and tuning powders for reactions, improved mixing and consolidation. She is also interested in the use of machine learning for anomaly detection and data mining to accelerate material design and to improve the understanding of complex mechanisms in extreme environments.

Zachary C. Cordero is the Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he leads the Aerospace Materials and Structures Laboratory. His current research is focused on the design, processing and performance of new materials tailored to withstand the extreme operating conditions in reusable liquid-propellant rocket engines.

Lori Graham-Brady is a professor of Civil and Systems Engineering and Associate Director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests are in probabilistic mechanics, uncertainty propagation and machine learning/surrogate modelling for solid mechanics applications. She is also overseeing the development of an integrated laboratory on Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design, with a specific focus on high-throughput techniques, automation and testing specifically in high-rate/high-temperature/high-pressure conditions.