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Aeriel Views

is a life style blog focused on career and life for young professionals interested in pursuing graduate school who are lovers of life with the drive and ambition to change the WORLD.

by Aeriel Murphy-Leonard, PhD

About Aeriel

img_3290Dr. Aeriel D.M. Leonard is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Her research group focuses on understanding the microstructural scale mechanisms of damage and deformation in microstructurally and compositionally complex metallic alloys. She was awarded the Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2022 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2021. In 2022 Dr. Leonard served as the Chair of the Fourth Summit on Diversity in Minerals, Metals, and Materials in Anaheim, California. She serves as the Co-Advisor for the undergraduate chapter of the Society of Women Engineers at Ohio State. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the University of Alabama in 2012. In 2013, she began her PhD journey at the University of Michigan in Materials Science and Engineering where she earned her PhD in 2018. Dr. Leonard’s PhD work investigated real-time microstructural and deformation evolution in magnesium alloys using advanced characterization techniques such high energy diffraction microscopy and electron back scatter diffraction. During her time at Michigan she led and worked on many teams aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering including developing and implementing a leadership camp for female engineering students in Monrovia, Liberia.  Dr. Leonard was awarded an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC where she worked for two years. During this time, she used advanced characterization techniques such as x-ray computed tomography and high energy diffraction microscopy to understand damage and texture evolution during in-situ loading in additive manufactured materials. She also runs a lifestyle blog titled AerielViews aimed at young graduate and professional students.