Professor Eric Stach received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering from Duke University in 1992. In 1994, he received his M.S. from the University of Washington and in 1998 he received his PhD from the University of Virginia, both in Materials Science and Engineering. He joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA where he was a Materials Staff Scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, and in 2003 became a Program Leader in the Metals Program, Materials Science Division. He began his career at Purdue in the School of Materials Engineering in January 2005. His research interests include high-resolution in-situ electron microscopy techniques to understand how nanometer lengths scales affect the fundamental mechanical, thermomechanical and electromechanical behavior of materials