PERSONAL HISTORY
MSc. 1973, Department of Metallurgy, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Ph.D. 1981, Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Aston, Birmingham, England; MBA 1996, Iowa State University; Postdoctoral research fellow, McMaster University, Canada, 1981-83; Visiting Scientist, Physical Metallurgy Research Labs Ministry of Energy Mines and Resources of Canada, 1983-84; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Manufacturing, Bradley University, 1984-88; Ames Laboratory, 1988-present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental and micro-mechanistic aspects of fracture, fatigue/creep cracking. Mechanics and mechanisms of deformation and plasticity. Multi-scale modeling and simulation of the mechanical behavior and microstructural evolution.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Q. Chen and S.B. Biner
“Stability of perfect dislocations in rare-earth intermetallic compounds: YCu, YAg and YZn,” Acta Mater., Vol. 53, 3215 (2005).

A. Antoniou, A.F. Bastawros, C.C.H. Lo, and S.B. Biner
"Deformation behavior of a zirconium-based metallic glass during cylindrical indentation: In situ observations,” Mater. Sci. Eng. , A , Vol. 394, 96 (2005).

S.B. Biner and J.R. Morris
“ The effects of grain size and dislocation source density on the strengthening behavior of polycrystals,” J. Philos. Mag., Vol. 83 , 3677 (2003).

S.B. Biner
“ Fundamental mechanisms of deformation in MD simulations of metallic glass nanoindentation,” in proceedings of the “3rd International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation of Materials,” edited by P. Vincenzini et.al. (in press).

M.J. Kramer, D.J. Sordelet, A.F. Bastarows, X. Tan, and S.B. Biner
“ Absence of crystallization during cylindrical indentation of a Zr-based metallic glass,” J. Non-Cryst. Solids (in press).

HONORS, AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES