Martin Gruebele is a professor in the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois. He obtained his B.S. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1988 at UC Berkeley, did a postdoc with Ahmed Zewail at Caltech, and then joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1992. His research interests include protein and RNA folding, fast dynamics in live cells, vibrational energy flow in molecules, quantum computing and measurement, nanoscale imaging of excited states, glass dynamics, and locomotion and sensing dynamics. The work is published in over 280 papers and reviews. He is a Fellow of the American Physical, Chemical and Biophysical Societies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences.