Rate My Professor Jason Trelewicz

Jason Trelewicz is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering and core faculty in the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, holding a joint appointment in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 and his B.E. in Engineering Science from Stony Brook University in 2004. Before joining the Stony Brook faculty, he was Research Director at MesoScribe Technologies, Inc. for four years, overseeing technology development and transition on multiple Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA programs.

His research focuses on interface-engineered materials for extreme environments, emphasizing high-strength, radiation-tolerant nanomaterials synthesized via electroforming, sputtering, pulsed laser deposition, and additive manufacturing. Through the Engineered Microstructures and Radiation Effects Laboratory (EMREL), he investigates mechanisms of stability, mechanical behavior, and radiation tolerance in hierarchically structured alloys for applications such as nuclear structural materials, fusion plasma-facing components, microreactor moderators, creep-resistant copper alloys, and reduced activation steels. Trelewicz has received the DOE Early Career Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2016), 2022 Journal of Nuclear Materials Best Paper Award, Fusen and Yijen Chen Prize for Innovative Research (2018), TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award (2015), Stony Brook 40 Under 40 Honoree, and Long Island Business News Power 25 in Education recognition. Key publications include "Unraveling Thermodynamic and Kinetic Contributions to the Stability of Nanocrystalline Alloys" (Advanced Materials, 2022), "Grain Boundary Softening from Stress Assisted Helium Bubble Coalescence in Ultrafine-Grained Tungsten" (Acta Materialia, 2023), and "Thermal Mechanical Evaluation of Candidate Tokamak Divertor Elements Informing Fusion Materials Design Windows" (Fusion Engineering and Design, 2025).