About the International Society of Materials Modeling
The International Society of Materials Modeling (ISMM) is a nonprofit professional society dedicated to advancing the science, engineering, and application of materials modeling and simulation. The Society brings together researchers from academia, national laboratories, industry, and government to promote the development and use of modeling approaches that connect materials behavior across length scales, time scales, disciplines, and applications.
ISMM provides an international home for the materials modeling community. Its mission is to support the exchange of ideas, foster scientific collaboration, recognize excellence, and help define future directions in multiscale materials modeling, computational materials science, computational mechanics, materials informatics, and related fields.
Our Origins
The Society grew out of the long-standing International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, known as MMM. The MMM conference series began in 2002 in London and has since developed into a major biennial international forum for researchers working across materials science, mechanics, physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, computational science, biomechanics, manufacturing, and related disciplines.
Over the years, MMM has rotated among North America, Europe, and Asia, reflecting the field’s international character and the global nature of the materials modeling community. Past MMM meetings have helped shape the community by bringing together researchers working on atomistic modeling, mesoscale methods, continuum approaches, multiscale and multiphysics modeling, materials informatics, uncertainty quantification, and the integration of modeling with experiments and manufacturing.
The MMM conference remains ISMM's flagship event.
From an International Advisory Board to a Society
For many years, the MMM conference series was guided by an International Advisory Board composed of leading researchers from around the world. Following MMM10, held in Baltimore, Maryland, the International Advisory Board met to discuss the future of the MMM community and voted to create a formal international society, with the MMM conference serving as its flagship conference.
A subgroup of the International Advisory Board then led the formal establishment of the International Society of Materials Modeling as a nonprofit society under U.S. law. The Society was incorporated in the State of Delaware in 2023 as a nonprofit organization organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.
This transition marked an important step in the evolution of the materials modeling community. By creating a formal society, the MMM community established a durable organizational structure to support future conferences, expand membership, promote awards and recognition, strengthen international engagement, and provide continuity across conference cycles.
Governance and Founding Board
ISMM is governed by a Board of Directors in accordance with its bylaws. The bylaws define membership categories, voting procedures, board composition, officer roles, elections, meetings, committees, and other governance procedures.
Current Leadership
| Name | Role | Institution | Country | Term dates | |
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Jaafar El-Awady | President | Johns Hopkins University | USA | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Javier Llorca | Vice-president | IMDEA Materials Institute | Spain | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Irene Beyerlein | Member | University of California at Santa Barbara | USA | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Yinan Cui | Member | Tsinghua University | China | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Maryam Ghazisaedi | Member | Ohio State University | USA | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Somnath Ghosh | Member | Johns Hopkins University | USA | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Roman Gröger | Member | Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics of Materials |
Czechia | January 1, 2025 - present |
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David Rodney | Member | Université de Lyon | France | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Tomotsugu Shimokawa | Member | Kanazawa University | Japan | January 1, 2025 - present |
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Manas Upadhyay | Member | École Polytechnique | France | January 1, 2025 - present |
Past Leadership
This section archives past board members, officers, International Advisory Board members, and other individuals who helped guide the development of ISMM and the MMM conference series.
Past Presidents
| Name | Institution | Country | Dates |
| Jaafar El-Awady | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2022-2024 |
Past Vice-presidents
| Name | Institution | Country | Dates |
| Roman Gröger | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics of Materials | Czechia | 2022-2024 |
Past Board Members
| Name | Institution | Country | Dates |
| Jaafar El-Awady | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| Roman Gröger | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics of Materials | Czechia | 2022-2024 |
| Javier Llorca | IMDEA Materials Institute | Spain | 2022-2024 |
| Anter El-Azab | Purdue University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| James Kermode | University of Warwick | UK | 2022-2024 |
| Nasr Ghoniem | University of California Los Angeles | USA | 2022-2024 |
| István Groma | Lóránd Eötvös University | Hungary | 2022-2024 |
| Somnath Ghosh | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| Dennis M. Dimiduk | Ohio State University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| Peter Gumbsch | Fraunhofer Institute | Germany | 2022-2024 |
| Wei Cai | Stanford University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| François Willaime | Université Paris-Saclay | France | 2022-2024 |
Founding directors
| Name | Institution | Country | Dates |
| Jaafar El-Awady | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| Roman Gröger | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics of Materials | Czechia | 2022-2024 |
| Javier Llorca | IMDEA Materials Institute | Spain | 2022-2024 |
| Anter El-Azab | Purdue University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| James Kermode | University of Warwick | UK | 2022-2024 |
| Nasr Ghoniem | University of California Los Angeles | USA | 2022-2024 |
| István Groma | Lóránd Eötvös University | Hungary | 2022-2024 |
| Somnath Ghosh | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| Dennis M. Dimiduk | Ohio State University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| Peter Gumbsch | Fraunhofer Institute | Germany | 2022-2024 |
| Wei Cai | Stanford University | USA | 2022-2024 |
| François Willaime | Université Paris-Saclay | France | 2022-2024 |
Former International Advisory Board
to be written
The MMM Conference Series
The International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling is ISMM's flagship conference. The conference provides a forum for the international materials modeling community to present new methods, applications, and emerging directions across the field.
The MMM conference series has historically included topics such as:
- Mathematical and computational foundations of multiscale methods
- Atomistic, mesoscale, and continuum modeling
- Multiscale and multiphysics mechanics and materials
- Probabilistic modeling and uncertainty quantification
- Materials informatics, machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence
- Synergistic coupling of experiments and modeling
- Microstructural evolution
- Materials by design
- Biological, soft, structural, nuclear, multifunctional, and interfacial materials
- Additive manufacturing and emerging manufacturing methods
- Industrial applications of materials modeling
Past MMM Conferences
This section should include a table of past MMM conferences, with year, location, host institution or local organizers when available, and a link to the conference website or archived program.
| Year | Conference | Location | Conference Chair | Notes/Link when available |
| 2002 | MMM1 | London, United Kingdom | ||
| 2004 | MMM2 | Los Angeles, United States | ||
| 2006 | MMM3 | Freiburg, Germany | ||
| 2008 | MMM4 | Tallahassee, United States | Anter El-Azab | https://mmm2008.sc.fsu.edu/ |
| 2010 | MMM5 | Freiburg, Germany | ||
| 2012 | MMM6 | Singapore | ||
| 2014 | MMM7 | Berkeley, United States | ||
| 2016 | MMM8 | Dijon, France | ||
| 2018 | MMM9 | Osaka, Japan | ||
| 2022 | MMM10 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States | Jaafar El-Awady | https://mmm10.jhu.edu/ |
| 2024 | MMM11 | Prague, Czechia | Roman Gröger | https://mmm11.ipm.cz/ |
| 2026 | MMM12 | Jeju, Korea | Hyoung Seop Kim | https://www.mmm12.org/ |
Governance Documents
ISMM maintains governance documents that define the Society’s structure, responsibilities, and operating principles: