Anter El-Azab is a Professor of Materials Engineering and Nuclear Science and Engineering at Purdue University and the Editor-in-Chief for the Spinger-Nature journal, Materials Theory. His research interest are in the the Microstructure Science of Materials in the theory of metal deformation, radiation effects in materials, defect disorder in oxides, and computional methods in materials science. El-Azab can be reached at aelazab@purdue.edu.