David Sholl is the Director of the Transformational Decarbonization Initiative at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is currently a Strategic Policy Advisor for DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Editor-in-Chief of AIChE Journal. From 2013-2021 David was the School Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has published over 400 papers, a textbook on Density Functional Theory, a novel, Polyphony, and a book for early career researchers, Success and Creativity in Scientific Research. David was on the Board of Directors of AIChE from 2019-2021 and in 2020 chaired the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Separations. He was a member of the study committees that wrote the National Academy of Engineering’s reports Research Agenda for a New Era in Separations Science and Chemical Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century.