Prof. Dr. Eric J. Heller is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He received his BS from the University of Minnesota in 1968, and his PhD in Chemical Physics in 1973 from Harvard University. He was a postdoc at the University of Chicago with Stuart Rice, after which he joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a member of the Chemistry faculty at UCLA from 1976 to 1982. In 1993, he returned to Harvard as Professor of Physics and director of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (ITAMP) (1993–1998). In 1998, he assumed a joint appointment to the Harvard University Chemistry Department. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Philosophical Society. He has received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry (2005), the Astor Fellowship at Oxford (2005), and the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize (2003). Heller has been a Sloan Fellow, a Humboldt Fellow, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is the co-author of over 280 publications.