Thomas Lograsso
Critical Materials Innovation Hub
Dr. Thomas Lograsso is the Director of the Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub. He has been a member of its Leadership team since the inception of CMI. He has been a materials scientist at the Ames National Laboratory since 1988 and has served in a number of various leadership roles at the Laboratory. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
Lograsso’s research specialty is solidification physics, and he has applied his background to the synthesis and design of new novel materials in single crystalline forms. Tom is a co-inventor of a rare-earth free substitute (Galfenol) for the magnetostrictive alloy, Terfenol-D which contains the critical elements Tb and Dy.