Dr. Manley received his PhD in Materials Science from Caltech in 2001 and was awarded the 18th Louis Rosen Prize for his thesis. He was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory for a little over a year before being promoted to staff scientist. During the 2005–2006 academic year, he was stationed at the University of California, Davis as part of a LANL/UC collaborative educational research program, serving as a Visiting Professor. He remained affiliated with UC Davis as an Adjunct Professor from 2006–2011. He moved to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2006, where he received a Science, Technology, and Engineering Award for his research on actinides, and then to his current position at Oak Ridge in 2012. He won the 2021 TMS FMD Distinguished Scientist Award for experimental research on thermophysical properties of materials at high temperatures and the discovery of intrinsic localized modes in anharmonic materials. He serves as Science Lead for the Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation and Co-PI on the BES-funded program Neutron Scattering Studies of Hybrid Excitations. From 2018–2024, he was Co-Scientific Director of the National School on Neutron & X-ray Scattering.
Research Interests:
Neutron and x-ray scattering, basic and applied problems in materials physics, relaxor ferroelectric behavior, thermoelectric material performance, nuclear materials, thermodynamic and mechanical properties, phase stability, electronic structure, thermal transport, shape memory effect, nonlinear lattice dynamical effects, disorder.
Support:
- BES FWP “Neutron Scattering Studies of Hybrid Excitations” Co-PI, 2018-present .
- BES EFRC “The Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation (TETI)” Science lead (https://teti.inl.gov/), 2018–present.
- BES FWP “Impact of Dynamic Instabilities and Local Structure on Energy Materials” Co-PI, 2012–2018.
- Vice Chair, “Physics and Chemistry of Materials” Committee, TMS 2013-2015
- NSF Grant DMR-0906491: “Dynamical Localization in High Temperature Crystals as Measured by Inelastic Neutron Scattering,” Co-PI with Albert Sievers (Cornell), 2009–2014.
