Jeetain Mittal is currently a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Lehigh University. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, his master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree, also in chemical engineering, from Punjab Technical University. Prior to joining Lehigh in 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the National Institutes of Health.