Alain Reza Yavari
Alain Reza Yavari (15 December 1949 – 24 November 2015) was a French scholar in the fields of chemical and physical metallurgy, with a focus on bulk metallic glasses. His transdisciplinary approach across physics and chemistry led to remarkable innovations that contributed to significant breakthroughs in both fundamental and applied material sciences. Biography. Born in Tehran in 1949, he moved to France at the age of 15 and attended the American College in Paris. He was enrolled as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc.) at the age of 17. He later continued his M.Sc. at  Stanford University and completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof Turnbull. Alain Reza Yavari moved back to France and joined the French National Center for Scientific Research. He finished his career as Research Director of Exceptional Class (DRCE, the highest level), leading a research group with numerous international collaborations, notably with Japan and Brazil. His numerous publications include several academic books and 305 highly cited papers in major international journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Materials. He was married to Isabelle Moulin (1985–1998) and was the father of two sons, Rostaim and Keihann Yavari, who  both live in France. Professor Yavari died at the age of 65 on 24 November 2015. Scientific work. Alain Reza Yavari led a team working on metastable and nanocrystalline materials in Grenoble. He has served as senior scientist at the corporate headquarters of AlliedSignal (where he trained in Management and Re-engineering) and as Invited Professor at the University of Complutense (Madrid), at Kyoto University in Japan and Tohoku University in Japan. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Metastable and Nanocryst. Mater. (Trans Tech), Associate Editor of Materials Transactions JIM and was on the editorial  or steering committees of various scientific periodicals and international conference series. He has authored more than 300 scientific papers, edited 7 books, holds 7 patents, has managed tens of industrial contracts, more than 20 doctoral theses, many European SCIENCE or HCM and RTN -type contracts, organised or co-organised 14 international conferences including a series of three with the late . He was one of the distinguished founders and a long-standing Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM) created in 1994 (Grenoble). Since then, it is organized worldwide with more  than 400 scientists participating annually. He was recently Coordinator of an EU Research and Training Network on metallic glasses and a French National ANR project on the same subject.