Professor Fultz received his undergraduate degree from MIT, and his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley in 1982. He was a Presidential Young Investigator, he received an IBM Faculty Development Award, a Jacob Wallenberg Scholarship, and won the TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist Award in 2010. Fultz has been announced as the winner of the 2016 William Hume-Rothery Award of TMS. He serves on review boards of the Advanced Photon Source and the NIST Center for Neutron Research. He consulted for an electronics testing company, Everett Charles Technologies, for the Defense Science Board, was a member of the Science Advisory Board of Actium Materials and Contour Energy, and is now on the Science Board of the Materials Project. Fultz has authored or co-authored over 390 publications.