Satish Kumar is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he is on the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Prof. Kumar received his undergraduate degree from Minnesota (1993), and his master's (1994) and doctoral degrees (1998) from Stanford University, all in chemical engineering. Following postdoctoral work at École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty at Minnesota in 2001. He is both a Fellow and an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society, is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, is a former president of the International Society of Coating Science and Technology, and is currently a member of the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Prof. Kumar served for 7 years as Faculty Director of the Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME), a university-industry consortium, and is currently co-director of its Coating Process Fundamentals Program. Prof. Kumar's research involves integration of transport phenomena, colloid and interface science, rheology, applied and computational mathematics, and experiments to address fundamental issues motivated by problems in materials processing. These fundamental investigations, which are described in over 170 journal articles and 28 PhD theses, are frequently inspired by industrial applications such as coating and printing processes, polymer processing, nanofluidics/microfluidics, and energy.