Eric Steinbring is the Head of the Canadian Gemini Office and a Senior Research Officer at Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada, in Victoria, Canada. He completed his undergraduate studies in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Winnipeg in 1993, received his Master's degree in Astronomy from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2001. He has well over two decades of experience in astronomical site testing and innovative techniques of high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy from the ground and space. His research spans from impacts of climate change on future ground-based astronomical facilities here on Earth, to the evolution of galaxies and quasars over cosmic time, and the detection of the grainy quantum-gravitional nature of spacetime itself across our Universe. In 2025 Dr. Steinbring's contributions to astronomy were recognized by the IAU with the naming of asteroid (737028) Steinbring in his honour.