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Franz Geiger is currently the Dow Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He is the recipient of the 2017 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation and the 2016 Faculty Diversity Award from Northwestern University’s Graduate School. He serves as Senior Editor at the Journal of Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS), as Chair-Elect of the newly established Experimental Physical Chemistry (EXP) subdivision of the ACS Physical Chemistry Division, on the Science Board of the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC), and on the International Advisory Board of the Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics, (PCSD) and will begin serving on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2018. He joined the chemistry faculty of Northwestern University in 2001. He is a native of Berlin, Germany, where he received his Vordiplom in chemistry at the Technische Universitaet in 1993. He earned his PhD in 1998 at Georgetown University working with Janice Hicks as a NASA Fellow in Earth Systems Science, and was a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change with Mario Molina at MIT. He was the Ralph Grim Mineralogy Lecturer at the University of Illinois, the “Interdisciplinary Problems in Chemistry and Physics” Lecturer at the University of Maryland, and a Baker Lecturer at Cornell University. At Northwestern, Franz Geiger leads major collaborative research projects involving experimental and computational methods to study the special role that surfaces and interfaces play in the world.