Thomas E. Mallouk received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Brown University, where he did undergraduate research with Aaron Wold. He worked in industry for two years and was a Ph.D. student from 1979-1983 with Neil Bartlett at the University of California, Berkeley. Following postdoctoral work with Mark Wrighton at MIT (1983-85) he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin (1985-93) and at Penn State University (1993-2019). He is currently Vagelos Professor in Energy Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the synthesis of inorganic materials and their application to solar and electrochemical energy conversion, nano- and micro-robotics, surface chemistry and electrocatalysis, low dimensional physical phenomena, and environmental remediation.