Yury Gogotsi is Distinguished University Professor and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He also serves as Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. He received his M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) from Kiev Polytechnic and a D.Sc. degree from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1995. His research group works on 2D carbides, nanostructured carbons, and other nanomaterials for energy, water, and biomedical applications. He has received numerous national and international awards for his research and has been elected a Fellow of many professional societies, including the World Academy of Ceramics and the European Academy of Sciences. He is an Associate Editor at ACS Nano.