Dennis W. Hess is the Thomas C. DeLoach Jr., Emeritus Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include thin films, surfaces, interfaces, and plasma processing. He has a B.S. in Chemistry (Albright College), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry (Lehigh University). After four years at Fairchild Semiconductor, he served on the faculty in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Berkeley (1977-1991), Lehigh University (1991-1996), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (1996-2020). At Berkeley, he served as Assistant Dean in the College of Chemistry and Vice Chair in ChE, and at Lehigh he served as Department Chair. He was Associate Editor of ACS Chemistry of Materials from 1988-1996, Editor-in Chief of ECS Electrochemical and Solid State Letters from 2004-2012, and Editor-in-Chief of ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology from 2012 to 2018. He is past President of The Electrochemical Society (1996-97 term). He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Electrochemical Society. He developed and offers courses and workshops in technical leadership and published Leadership by Engineers and Scientists through Wiley and AIChE in 2018. He served as AIChE Management Division Director 2020-2022.