Mary Anne Alvin currently serves as the Senior Program Manager for Critical Minerals Processing at the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management in Washington, DC. She previously served as the Rare Earth Element Technology Manager at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. Prior to joining NETL, Dr. Alvin was employed at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and at Siemens Westinghouse Power Generation, working in the area of advanced energy systems. As a Fellow Scientist, she was internationally recognized for her contributions in the area of high temperature porous ceramic materials, ceramic matrix composites, intermetallics, advanced alloys and metal media for hot gas filtration use in the electric power generation industry. She holds twenty-eight patents in these areas. Most recently, Dr. Alvin served as Co-Editor for the book Rare Earth Metals and Minerals Industries – Status and Prospects published by Springer in December 2023.