Dr. Michael H. Bartl is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Utah. Before coming to Utah he conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Galen Stucky at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and with Professors Evelyn Hu and David Awschalom at the California NanoSystems Institute. His educational background includes a Diploma degree (Graz University of Technology, Austria) and a Doctorate degree in Chemistry (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria). His research focuses on functional nanostructured materials for energy and information technology applications, including bioinspired photonics, nanocrystals and thin films. He was awarded an “Outstanding Scientific Achievement” award (Karl-Franzens University), a Max-Kade Fellowship and he is currently a “DuPont Young Professor”. Recently, he was named an “Emerging Investigators” by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Materials Chemistry.