Prof. Steven Nutt is the M.C. Gill Professor of Materials Science at the University of Southern California. He completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Virginia in 1982. He founded the M.C. Gill Composites Center in 1996 and has served as its Director to the present day. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. His research interests include the processing science of both polymer-matrix and ceramic-matrix composites, focusing on mechanisms such as resin flow, air removal, sintering, and compaction.