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Carlos G. Levi was born in Monterrey, México and is a naturalized US citizen (1996). He holds Ph.D. (1981) and M.Sc. (1977) degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, México (1972). His graduate research was done under the guidance of Dr. Robert Mehrabian. He also did post-doctoral research at the UIUC Materials Research Laboratory in the group of Dr. Hamish Fraser. Professor Levi joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1984 and is currently Full Professor. He holds a joint appointment between the Materials Department, where he was Associate Chair (1992-2003), and the Department of Mechanical Engineeering. He oversees the Structural Materials Processing Laboratory and is a participant in the NSF-sponsored International Center for Materials Research, the Materials Research Laboratory, the Pratt & Whitney Center of Excellence in Composites, the Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures and the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UCSB. The ovearching theme of his research is understanding the microstructure of materials and its evolution during processing and service, with emphasis on structural and functional inorganic materials. His expertise in materials processing includes physical vapor deposition, powder processing and solidification technologies, fabrication processes for inorganic composites, and synthesis of inorganics from precursors. His research is currently funded by NSF, ONR, NASA, Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell Aerospace. He has published over 165 articles on his research, and has been recognized for specific contributions to the literature with the 1983 Howe Medal and the 1989 Grossmann Award, both from ASM International, a 1990 Significant Contribution Award of the MST Division of the American Nuclear Society, and the 2004 DLR Wissenschaftspreis from the German Aerospace Agency. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2012) and has been honored for his career contributions to Materials Science and Engineering with the 2002 Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis (Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from the AvH Foundation, Germany), the 2008 NIMS Award for Recent Breakthroughs in Materials Science for Energy and Environment (shared with A.G. Evans and D.R. Clarke), and most recently with the 2014 TMS Morris Cohen Award. Professor Levi is a member of the The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), where he has served in the Board of Directors and the leadership of the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division, as well as numerous technical and administrative committees. He is also a member of the American Ceramic Society and ASM International, and has served in the Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions and the Editorial Board of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member of the Alcoa Howmet Technology Advisory Board and a consultant for GE Research, GE Aviation and various other organizations.