His grandfather, Morris Suslick, was born in Bessarabia. Ken Suslick received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1974, his Ph.D. from Stan- ford University in 1978, and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign immediately thereafter. Professor Suslick is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His area of focus is on the chemical and physical effects of ultrasound, sonochemistry, and sono- luminescence. In addition, he has worked in the fields of artificial and machine olfa- ction, electronic nose technology, chemical sensor arrays, and the use of colorimetric sensor arrays as an optoelectronic nose. Professor Suslick has mentored more than 75 Ph.D. students and 35 postdoctoral associates. He has published more than 427 scientific papers, edited four books, and holds more than 64 patents and patent ap- plications. His papers have been cited more than 56,000 times and his h-index is 121. In addition to his academic research, Professor Suslick has had significant en- trepreneurial experience. He was the lead consultant for Molecular Biosystems Inc. and part of the team that commercialized the first echo contrast agent for medical sonography, AlbunexTM, which became OptisonTM" by GE Healthcare.