Michael J. Rose is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by Pradip K. Mascharak, after which he undertook postdoctoral training under Harry B. Gray and Nathan S. Lewis at California Institute of Technology (CCI Solar and NSF ACC-F Fellowships). His research includes synthetic bioinorganic chemistry of [Fe]-hydrogenase and nitrogenase as well as silicon-based solar fuels and heavy main-group chemistry.