Peter A. Dowben is a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska (UNL). From 1984 to 1990, he was Assistant Professor of Physics at Syracuse University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. He moved to the University of Nebraska in 1993 and was promoted to Professor of Physics in 1995, Research Professor of Chemistry in 1994, and a Charles Bessey Professor in 2002. He performed his post-doctoral research as a scientific staff member at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, as well as a twice recipient of UNL’s Engineering and Technology Multidisciplinary Research Award. He has 680 publications with 18230 citations and an h-index of 58 (Scopus, 11 November 2023).