Klaus Bartschat is the Ellis & Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Physics at Drake University. His degrees include the diploma, PhD, and “Habilitation” from the University of Münster (Germany). His research focuses on charged-particle and photon collisions with atoms and ions, ultrafast intense laser-matter interactions, general scattering theory, and numerical methods. Bartschat is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was awarded the 2016 Will Allis Prize “for fundamental theoretical and computational contributions to the understanding of charged-particle and photon collisions with atoms and molecules and for providing critical data and insight to the plasma modeling community.”