Dr. Engstrom is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell University and a member of the Graduate Field of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell. At the university, his Engstrom Research Group focuses on electronic and advanced-materials processing and surface science, using molecular beam scattering, synchrotron x-ray scattering, and scanning tunneling microscopy. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, the Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellowship in 1995 and the College of Engineering Teaching Award from Cornell in 2003. In addition, Dr. Engstrom received an STA Nuclear Fellowship in 1996 from the Science and Technology Agency of Japan. From 1998 to 2001, he worked for Symyx Technologies, where he was vice president of high-throughput screening and electronic materials. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.